Dictionary.com's iPhone App Agent X Word Helps You Solve Crossword Puzzles On The Go
Leena Rao
Dec 18, 2009

If you enjoy crossword puzzles, you are going to love Dictionary.com’s new iPhone app, Agent X Word. The app, which is $2.99 in the App Store, is the ultimate crossword solver. The new app leverages Dictionary.com’s proprietary natural-language technology and semantic search capabilities to provide an actual answer (or up to three hints if you just need a little help).

Agent X Word will provide more than two million hints and answers for over 30,000 crossword puzzles updated daily and claims to understand pop culture and current events. The app will offer definitions and synonyms for answers as well as other features such as recent search history and the ability to email answers to yourself or others. If you aren’t sure you want the answer revealed, the app can provide up to three hints per clue, to help you solve the puzzle yourself.

Dictionary.com’s free iPhone app, which launched in April, has been downloaded more than four million times. The app lets you look up definitions and synonyms from Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com, reaching into a database of more than 275,000 definitions and 80,000 synonyms. The app also features audio pronunciations, similarly spelled words and Word of the Day. The company also recently launched a BlackBerry App and released its API to partners to incorporate into various applications, including e-books.

Dictionary.com was bought by IAC-run Ask.com in July of 2008 when the conglomerate bought Lexico, the operator of Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com.

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  • http://www.storyofmylife.com antje wilsch

    nice graphics

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Clint_Pee/594153546 Clint Pee

    This product here is a sure failure waiting to happen
    What’s the fun of solving a puzzle by a app?

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  • http://www.mnemonidictionary.com Amit Aggarwal

    nice app :)

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  • robb knie

    interesting app for those of us stuck and out of luck in solving those hard to find nyt puzzles.

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  • rick

    I don’t believe anyone would admit to using an electronic aid while solving a crossword puzzle. That is just stupid. So when you play chess online, are you entering the moves into Chessmaster and getting it to suggest lines to you while your opponent waits? If you win by playing like that, do you pump your fist and go ‘Yes!!’?

    Sheesh.

  • Scott Barnett

    Dictionary.com was actually purchased by Answers.com, not Ask.com. http://bit.ly/YN8LM

  • JT

    I like that it’s offering hints before giving an answer.

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