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I fully agree. That’s more or less the way I’ve been playing the game all along, except that I use pen and paper rather than Scrabble tiles or any other material aids. Sometimes I’m doubtful whether a word really exists, and I feel free to use online dictionaries to check that. In this instance, I thought I’d found an answer for spiderwebs, which was pseudowires. Sadly, that word not only doesn’t exist, but it dawned on me after a while that it changes two letters instead of one.

What are other players’ views about using dictionaries in this way?
 
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What are other players’ views about using dictionaries in this way?
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i like to rearrange letters in a text window (like the one we reply in) to check for spelling. sometimes it does autocorrect me to a word.

usually, i go for the low hanging fruit. i would have used spiderweb for a reply to spiderwebs.
 
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Sometimes I’m doubtful whether a word really exists, and I feel free to use online dictionaries to check that.
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I do that occasionally.

Once the online dictionary didn’t recognize my word but suggested a word I hadn’t thought of, which I posted (long time ago, in the previous thread), but now on further reflection I shouldn’t have since it is not much different from using an anagram finder.
 
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British crosswords, as you probably know, rely heavily on anagrams. I’ve been doing them for many years, since long before the computer age, when I used printed dictionaries for this kind of checking. Maybe I’d better go back to doing the same thing here!
 
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I fully agree. Depending how hard the word is, I begin by simply rearranging the word by changing one letter. If not, I scan the word and rearrange by simply looking at the word and see what I can make of it. If that don’t work I go to pen and paper. If the word proves too difficult to solve, I make use of a dictionary, or an anagram-solver.
 
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