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Oxford english dictionary search how to#

In any search you can type your search term in any combination of upper and lower case letters.Ī Quick search looks for main entries, compounds, and variant spellings only.

Oxford english dictionary search how to#

How to search for accented characters and hyphenated terms. Wildcards are useful if you want to search for several terms with the same stem or if you don't know exactly how your term is spelled. You can make your search more complex by using the wildcards * and ?. Use the list to move to the entries you want to see. If there is more than one match to a search, these are shown in the results list. You can use wildcards in your search term if you wish.See also Accents, hyphens, and special characters.

In a Quick search, it is not necessary to type punctuation or worry about capital letters or hyphens.

If you do not find the word you are looking for, go to ‘widen search’, or try an Advanced search, as your word may be found in an etymology or quotation.

If you do not know how to spell a word, you can use a wildcard in your search. The quick search will not recognize a misspelling.

A quick search will find your term if it is a main entry, subentry, or variant spelling.

Click on any of the results to open its entry.

A list of results is displayed, or, if there is a single result, the entry is displayed automatically.

Type or paste the word you want to find in the Search box.