Word Puzzle Question

[cauldronofevil]

I'm trying to find out how many words have the letters "ANNA" in the middle of them. What kind of word puzzle is this? (Not an anagram). Is there a good web site to find something like this? thanks! - coe

[rjk]

Look for a "crossword word finder" online.

Alternatively, if you have access to a *nix system, go to a command line and search the spell-checker's dictionary with a command like 'grep -i anna /usr/dict/words'. (I think that's where Sun systems keep the dictionary. The '-i' tells the grep command to ignore case. YMMV for both.)

[rjk]

Here (http://real.fissure.org/features/crossword/)'s one.

[moriah]

Here (http://real.fissure.org/features/crossword/)'s one.

The problem with that site is that you can only put a period in for each unknown letter. It won't return every word with ANNA in it.

But onelook.com will. By putting in *anna*, you get this (http://www.onelook.com/?w=*anna*&ls=a).

Peace.