Not sure you will be able to do that with the dictionary, but not something
I have tried.

If you want to go back to your original, this guy is posting from a UK url,
so perhaps he spells color as colour <g.

http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/ilash/Moby/


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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

"Yabbadoo" wrote in message
...
I'm British. I've sourced some word lists, unfortunately they are US
English, with US spellings - not helpful with my end-use. It occurred to
me, the needed database already exists ...

PC already has an English dictionary (part of MSOffice). Is it possible to
import this as a wordlist into Excel?

Object of the exercise - to "query" the dictionary to return words which
match input criteria such as example -
G?GG?? (the length of word, 6 characters, ? a single wild-card) ?
The return to be all 6-letter words matching - gaggle, gagged gagger
giggled
etc ... this an example, the query could be as few as 3 and as many as
sixteen letters.

There's a web-site which already does this on-line, but the reponse time
is
slow. I'd like to create my own in Excel, if possible. Help, please?