Type some letters (typically a word or two) into the edit box at the top of
AnagramTree's window, click the Go
button or press the return key, and a
list of words/phrases made from the letters will appear.
The Minimum Word Length spinner sets the minimum
length of candidate words to prevent very short words from cluttering
the list, or to shorten the run time. The edit box accepts only letters and
spaces.
Long anagrams combined with a small minimum word length can make AnagramTree take up to 30 seconds to finish a request.
If a search is taking too long, click Stop.
The result so far will immediately be displayed. In any case, searches are
limited to 30 seconds, after which the results will be displayed.
When AnagramTree is processing
a request the Go button's label
will change to Stop. If you click
the button when it shows Stop AnagramTree will
stop processing and immediately show its results at that point. While
Stop is displayed AnagramTree updates the list
with each anagram as it is found. After the search is complete AnagramTree removes
any redundant permutations ("hello there" vs. "there hello") in the list.
Double-click a result in the anagram list to copy it to the clipboard, or
use menu item Edit→Copy or key combination Command+C.
Right-click and click Select All to select all anagrams.
Radio buttons allow the selection of a small, large or personal word list. Words in the selected list are used as candidate words in the anagram search. The small word list contains about 10,700 words. The large one contains about 38,000 words.
Menu item File→Open Personal Word List... will open a
word list that is external to AnagramTree. The word list must contain text with
one word per line. Any line containing characters other than letters
is ignored. AnagramTree ignores letter case distinctions in word lists.
AnagramTree will open text, xz, gzip and bzip2 files containing text, with
names ending in .txt, .xz, .gz,
.bz2 or any file at all. Opening a file that is not a text file
or a gz/xz/bz2-compressed text file is not supported.
A maximum of 85,000 words is accepted in a personal word list. Allowing more would slow AnagramTree to a crawl. AnagramTree will ask if a file with too many words should be truncated to the 85,000 shortest words. If not, the Open will be abandoned. Short English words occur more often than long ones.