AardWord takes just a few seconds to do the routine work of finding words with the right letters in the right place, so you can use your skills to decipher the clues and choose the correct word for the puzzle. Smaller, lighter, faster, easier than a printed crossword dictionary.

AardWord UK edition comes with the UK Advanced Cryptics Dictionary (UKACD) of words, proper names and common phrases. All forms of each word are listed. Compiled especially for crossword solvers and setters, the UKACD is probably the most comprehensive list of British English words available. With over 230,000 entries, this dictionary contains 2.6 megabytes of data, compressed to just 1MB for your Palm handheld.

Use it as a Scrabble dictionary or a general-purpose spelling checker too. Or even compile your own crosswords! Crossword enthusiast or crossword beginner? Need to solve that last annoying clue? Want to move on to harder crosswords, but need a helping hand? Want to win that crossword competition? How to use AardWord: simply write in the letters you know, and use a hyphen '-' for the letters you don't know. For example: type in "--a-pl-". The AardWord search will give you "example", "grapple", "knapple", "reapply", "scapple", "sharply", "trample" and "whample".

Now available in 2 versions: