Webster's Instant Word Guide Author:Merriam-Webster With Webster's Instant Word Guide, you can find the word you're looking for in a flash. The easy-to-use alphabetical listing lets you quickly check the spelling of a word and find where to divide it at the end of a line. This practical guide includes entries for 35,000 words that often raise questions about spelling or hyphenation. — The ... more »major feature of Webster's Instant Word Guide is an alphabetical word list which is intended for the use of writers, secretaries, and typists as a handy guide to spelling and to the division of words at the end of lines. Variant spellings are shown for many words, as are irregular inflections of verbs, adjectives, and nouns. Short identifying glosses and cross-references are provided to help distinguish words of similar sound or spelling that might otherwise be confused, such as allusive, elusive, and illusive or straight and strait.« less