WildSpeller is a spelling aid. WildSpeller knows about 527,000 words.

Type your best guess at spelling a word into WildSpeller, press the return key, and a list of words will appear. The list is sorted with the most common words first. You can click Sort Alphabetically to sort the list thusly.

You can use wildcards * and ? to substitute for letters you aren't sure of. An * replaces any number of any characters, including none, and ? replaces any one character. If you don't include * or ?, WildSpeller shows words that sound like what you typed.

If you type newmoanya and press the Return key, one of the displayed words is pneumonia. In this case, no * or ? means WildSpeller lists words that sound like what you typed.

Alternatively, if you type pneumonoul*, the list will be all words starting with pneumonoul followed by any number of any letters.

To copy a word to the clipboard use menu item Edit->Copy, key combination Command+C or context menu item Copy. Double-clicking a word will copy it also.

Checking the Use Large Dictionary checkbox will cause WildSpeller to use a 527,000-word dictionary. This may result in many synonyms in the list, possibly making it hard to find the word you want. The default small dictionary has about 58,000 words.

Log File

If an error occurs it is logged in file "/Users/ron/WildSpeller.log"