Type a phone number into the edit box near the top of PhoneWords' window, press the
return key or click the Go button,
and a list of words/phrases made from the number
will appear. The edit box will accept up to 10 digits, as well as
().- characters.
When PhoneWords is processing a request the Go button's label will change to Stop.
Clicking Stop will stop the search.
When the Stop button is clicked it is disabled and changes to Stopping....
Sometimes Stopping... is slow (a few seconds) to complete. It stays disabled
until Go is shown again.
The Minimum Word Length spinner sets
the minimum length of words allowed. That prevents very short words
from cluttering the list.
The Extra Letters spinner sets how many letters to add to the
end of the phone number when seaarching for words. For instance, 1-800-CALL-VISA
has eight letters for a phone number that has only 7 digits after the area
code. It has 1 extra letter. Extra Letters can be set to 0, 1 or 2.
When 'dialed' on a phone the extra letters are ignored by the phone system.
Using two extra letters slows PhoneWords a lot. A typical update time of 30 seconds is not unusual for 2 letters with the regular dictionary, and with the large dictionary can be one minute or longer.
Checking the Words Only box will prevent digits 2 through 9 from
appearing in PhoneWords' output. This will likely reduce the number of results, perhaps
to none. If none is found then try using the large dictionary.
Checking the Use Large Dictionary checkbox will cause PhoneWords to
use a 499,435-word dictionary.
This may result in many items in the list, possibly making it
hard to find the item you want. The default, regular Dictionary
has 121,509 words.
To select a font for PhoneWords to use, click menu item
Edit→Change Font... and select an application-wide font
family, style, weight and point size. Your selection will be retained across
PhoneWords runs.
If an error occurs it is logged in file"/Users/<your name>/PhoneWords.log".
To uninstall PhoneWords click menu item
Help→Uninstall PhoneWords... and answer two questions about what to remove.
PhoneWords was built with Python, PySide6 and Python's Nuitka compiler. You may copy and distribute PhoneWords as per the GPL, PySide and Python licenses. You can use PhoneWords for free.