words -- find words which can be made from a string of letters
words [-w word-file] [-m min-length] <letters>
words prints all the uncapitalized words in the word list that can be made from the string of letters. Each letter can appear in a word once for each time it appears in the string.
words accepts the following options:
wordlist the list of words, found with the executable
For a comprehensive word list, the author recommends the ENABLE word list, with more than 172,000 words, which can be found at http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/software.html .
This implementation of words has no known bugs.
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Revision 1.1 2004/07/23 20:09:55 cwest
initial import
Revision 1.2 1999/06/22 02:20:13 rjk
added /o to regex which verifies letters used
(regex is constant in this implementation of words)
added link to ENABLE word list in POD
added $VERSION
Revision 1.1 1999/06/14 02:28:41 rjk
Initial revision
AUTHOR
This implementation of words in Perl was written by Ronald J Kimball, rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu.
COPYRIGHT and LICENSE
This program is copyright 1999 by Ronald J Kimball.
This program is free and open software. You may use, modify, or distribute this program (and any modified variants) in any way you wish, provided you do not restrict others from doing the same.