Zyzzyva

Zyzzyva is a software program that was developed specifically to help anagram enthusiasts play and study different words, practice your skills by giving yourself quizzes and search for definitions.

The installation process is a piece of cake, while the interface you are met with encompasses a pretty clear-cut design. It is comprised of a menu bar, a few buttons and several tabbed panes in which you can deploy all the actions you want to.

Comprehensive and well-drawn Help contents are included, and therefore it ensures that both beginners and versed individuals can easily learn how to work with Zyzzyva.

First and foremost, you should know that this tool packs a pretty long list of lexicons that can be changed every time when you launch Zyzzyva. It is possible search for specific words according to anagram matches, pattern matches, length, group, letters, number of vowels, and probability order, with ease and view results in a dedicated pane.

In addition to that, you can easily bring up a word’s definition, associated anagrams, hooks, extensions, blank matches and transpositions, save the search to a ZZS file and add the words to a list.

You can create new quizzes, by specifying lexicon you want to use, quiz type, method and question order. It is also possible to add a timer per question or response, restore the progress, and save the quiz to a ZZQ file extension.

This utility enables you to look up certain words and view all available information pertaining to them, and use a “Word Judge,” which enables you to figure out if a specific play is acceptable or not. This is possible by inputting the number of words you want to challenge and input them.

Last but not least, you can easily rebuild a specified database or all of them, and tweak multiple options, such as changing the letter order and tile theme, show question statistics and number of responses in the status bar.

Zyzzyva does not require a large amount of resources in order to work properly, while all jobs are going to be finalized in a timely fashion. The interface is suitable to all user categories and we did not detect any errors or freezes in our tests.

All things considered, we can safely say Zyzzyva is a pretty efficient piece of software which enables you to play with anagrams and create quizzes.