pbaratta / anagram-helper

anagram-helper

Bridge the gap between two near-anagrams

Demo

https://vsharapov.github.io/anagram-helper/

The idea

I have two phrases that are not anagrams but I want them to be.

My current method is to "cancel out" letters in a text editor, e.g:

                    Phrase 1: eternal September
Phrase 1 but not in Phrase 2: naleembe

Phrase 2 but not in Phrase 1: ddio
                    Phrase 2: reddit repost

Now I need words that "cancel out" the leftovers.

For example adding "did" to the top would leave only 'o' bringing the phrases closer to being anagrams.

Ideally a wordlist would get reordered with consideration to:

• Letters needed
• Word commonness
• Thematic fit

Picking new words one by one you can eventually get to an anagram:

eternal september did come
reddit became le repost-men

TODO:

• Interface
  • Auto-resize text to fit width
    • On text change
    • On window size change
  • Advanced settings menu
    • Custom ignore list vs. [^0-9a-z]
    • Hide matching letters
    • History - track changes, revert, branch
• Suggestions
  • Has all characters within phrase
  • Perfect bridge, e.g. Need a + e suggest anagram + manager or bad + bed
• Wordlists
  • Hint at near-matches from arbitrary wordlist
  • Look for easy wordlists - something grabbable through xmlHttpRequest
    • Something tiny for testing
  • Look for functional wordlists - UrbanDictionary, reddit minus the gibberish
  • Checkboxes to choose your wordlist(s)