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Base Finding Tools

Whether you need a letter bank of “snake” or a consonantcy of “Ucaoimhu,” there is a tool that fits. Or, you can also use our other Solving Tools of the NPL.

Alternade

Search for Alternades of:

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Note: use a "." for a wildcard: "st..l" will give you steal, still, and so on.

Backswitch

Search for Backswitches of:

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Note: use a "." for a wildcard: "..tum." will give you autumn/mutual, and so on.

Baltimore Delete

Search for Baltimore deletions of:

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Note: use a "." for a wildcard: ".eat" will give you seat/eat/sat/set/sea, and so on.

Beheadment

Search for Beheadments of:

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Note: use a "." for a wildcard: "st..l" will give you teal, till, and so on.

Changeover

Search for Changeovers of:

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Note: use a "." for a wildcard: "treas..." will give you treasure/reassure, and so on.

Consonantcy

Search for Consonantcies of:

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Return only non-unique matches
 

Note: use a "." for a wildcard: "g.s" finds "gates", "gassy" and so on. This page does not correctly handle words with accents, so you may occasionally get spurious entries in the results if you use the UK cryptics dictionary, or "all dictionaries", which contains it.

Curtailment

Search for Curtailments of:

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Note: use a "." for a wildcard: "sl..e" will give you slop, and so on.

Deletion

Search for Deletions of:

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Note: use a "." for a wildcard: "st..l" will give you sill, seal and so on.

Head-to-tail Shift

Search for Head-To-Tail shifts of:

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Note: use a "." for a wildcard: "sn..l" will give you snail/nails, snurl/nurls, and so on.

Letter Bank

Search for Letter banks of:

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Note: use a "." for a wildcard: "lens." will give you glens, liens, and so on. It will not return "lens", however; it assumes that the "." is supposed to represent a letter not in the list you provide.

Letter Change

Search for Letter changes of:

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Note: use a "." for a wildcard: ".uppy" will give you guppy, puppy, and so on.

Letter Shift

Search for Letter shifts of:

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Note: use a "." for a wildcard: "st..r" will give you steer/stere, stair/tairs, and so on.

Metathesis

Search for Metathesis of:

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Note: use a "." for a wildcard: "li.ns" will give you lions and loins, liens and lines, and so on.

Padlock

Search for Padlocks of:

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Note: wildcards will not work for padlock searches.

Repeated Letter Change

Search for Repeated letter changes of:

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Note: use a "." for a wildcard: ".ea." will give you dead/rear, and so on.

Repeated Letter Deletion

Search for Repeated letter deletions of:

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Note: use a "." for a wildcard: "..dded" will give you rodded/roe, and so on.

Reversal

Search for Reversals of:

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Note: use a "." for a wildcard: "t..d" will give you teed/deet, trad/dart, and so on.

Switchback

Search for Switchbacks of:

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Note: use a "." for a wildcard: "h.d.a" will give you hydra/tardy, and so on.

Terminal Deletion

Search for Terminal deletions of:

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Note: use a "." for a wildcard: "st..r" will give you steer/stere, stair/tairs, and so on.

Transpogram

Search for Transpograms of:

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Note: use a "." for a wildcard: "st..n." will give you sterna/astern, sterno/noster, and so on.

Transposal

Search for Transposals of:

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Note: use a "." for a wildcard: "dre..d" finds "fodder", "red bud" and so on. This page does not correctly handle words with accents, so you may occasionally get spurious entries in the results if you use the UK cryptics dictionary, or "all dictionaries", which contains it.