Instead of shoving the whole dictionary onto the client side (as clever as that is), he could also look up all the anagrams & subanagrams given a set of letters

Instead of shoving the whole dictionary onto the client side (as clever as that is), he could also look up all the anagrams & subanagrams given a set of letters and then match against that subset of words. Check out http://stackoverflow.com/questions/396005/word-anagram-hashing-algorithm/396077#396077 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/396005/word-anagram-hashi... for an example