iWordGuru Letter Reuse Unscrambler User Guide

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This is the user guide for the Letter Reuse Unscrambler in iWordGuru (Word Games Word Puzzles Helper). User guides for other word finders and solvers in iWordGuru can be found at https://www.mnemosynch.net/word-games-word-puzzles-helper-user-guide/.

With iWordGuru Letter Reuse Unscrambler, a user enters a set of letters (including wildcards if necessary) and the solver finds all the words that can be made from the set of letters (including the wildcards, a wildcard can be used as any letter) and subsets of the letters. Letter Reuse Unscrambler is different from regular Unscrambler in that each letter can be used multiple times instead of once in the regular Unscrambler. Some word games such as the NYT Spelling Bee can use Letter Reuse Unscrambler to find solutions.

Letter Reuse Unscrambler operation instructions: 

At the Letter Reuse Unscrambler page,  follow the procedure below to enter letters and unscramble letters.

    1. (optional) Select the dictionary. The default dictionary is the 2022 Scrabble US dictionary. You may change it to Scrabble UK or ENABLE (the dictionary for WWF) by tapping the dictionary dropdown button. 
    2. If the input box (the box right below the dictionary dropdown button with hint: ‘<Enter letters…>’) is deactivated (the border of the box is grey), then tap the box to activate it (the border should be blue when activated).
    3. Tap letters in the keyboard to enter them to be unscrambled. The letters may include any number of wildcards (‘?‘). The letters can be entered in any order. The same letter may be entered multiple times. But multiple entries of the same letter is equivalent to just having the letter once since in the letter reuse unscrambler, each letter can be used multiple times in the result words. 
    4. After one letter (a wildcard is considered a letter) is entered, the grey ‘GET READY’ key will turn into a green ‘UNSCRAMBLE’ key. You may continue to enter more letters or tap the green ‘UNSCRAMBLE’ key to unscramble letters in the input box. This will lead to the unscramble results page that contains all the words found from the letters.

The following are the special keys on the keyboard:

      • ‘CLEAR’: removes all letters in the active field (input box or an optional filter)
      • ‘HELP’: launches the browser to show this Letter Reuse Unscrambler user guide.
      • ‘GET READY’: The grey ‘GET READY’ key is informational and has no effects. After one letter is entered, this key will turn into a green ‘UNSCRAMBLE’ key.
      • ‘UNSCRAMBLE’: The green ‘UNSCRAMBLE’ key appears after one letter is entered (the unscrambler is ready to unscramble the letters in the input box). When the green ‘UNSCRMBLE’ key appears, you can either continue to enter more letters or tap the green ‘UNSCRMBLE’ key to unscramble letters in the input box and see all words found in the unscramble results page.

    From the Letter Reuse Unscrambler page, you can tap the arrow at the left of the App Bar on the top of the page to return to the main menu.

    Unscrambler use case examples: 

      1. Unscramble letters ‘ERI’, the Letter Reuse Unscrambler will find all words that use letters in a subset of letters {E, R, I}: EERIER, EERIE, ERE, ERR, IRE, REE, REI, EE, ER, and RE. 
      2. Unscramble letter ‘?’, the Letter Reuse Unscrambler will find all words that use only one letter: MMM, ZZZ, AA, EE, MM, OO.
      3. Unscramble letters ‘ER?’, the Letter Reuse Unscrambler will find all words that use letters E, R, and another arbitrary letter such as SEERESSES, REFERRER, and so on. (the orange letters are from the wildcards as such letters are shown in the results page in the app)

    Filters: Filters are optional, they are used to narrow down the words to have certain properties. The Letter REUSE Unscrambler supports five filters, three pattern filters and two letter filters. The filter functions in Letter Reuse Unscrambler are the same as those in Unscrambler. Please see the Unscrambler user guide for more details and examples. 

    To enter filters, tap the filter input field to activate it and then tap the letters in the keyboard to enter them.

    Pattern filters: 

      • Pattern filter ‘Begins with’ specifies the beginning pattern of the matched words. 
      • Pattern filter ‘Contains’ specifies a pattern that the matched word must contain. 
      • Pattern filter ‘Ends with’ specifies the ending pattern of the matched words. 

    Letter filters

      • Letter filter ‘Includes Letters’ specifies the letters that must be included in the words. 
      • Letter filter ‘Excludes Letters’ specifies the letters that must be excluded in the words. 

     

    The solution page appears after the green ‘UNSCRAMBLE’ key is tapped. The page shows all solution words found. The words are grouped by their sizes. For each size, the words are sorted by default based on usage (commonly used words appears earlier). Letters correspond to wildcards are in orange color. Following actions can be performed in this solution page.

      • Tap a solution word to highlight the word.
      • Tap the sort option button (‘Usage’, ‘A to Z’, or Scrabble score) to change how the words of the same size are sorted, by usage, alphabetical order, or Scrabble score.
      • Tap the information button to the right of each word to google the meaning of the word.
      • Tap the ‘Get the next 20 words’ or ‘Get the rest ?? words’ button at the end of the displayed words for each size (this button will be there when there are more solution words of the size than those displayed) in the solution list to add more solution words on display.
      • Tap the arrow at the App Bar (upper left of the screen) to go back to the previous page where a new set of letters can be entered to be unscrambled.