WordSmith 9.0

  • This version runs on Windows 7 and later.
  • This is a 64bit version. 64bit software makes all the computer's memory available. Most computers have 16GB or more. (32bit software can only use 2GB at one time.)

download current version here

previous builds

latest developments

9.0.0.127 (13 July)

  • improved Concord duplicates check.
  • improved Language chooser.
  • Help system updates, see What's New

9.0.0.126 (3 July)

  • added Help to counting file data.
  • fixed system beeps on pressing <Enter>.
  • Find Files function for text files now available in main menu.
  • fixed choosing files by file extension issue.
  • Help system updates, see What's New

9.0.0.125 (26 June)

  • Inserted message about blanking for Concord.
  • Help system updates, see What's New

9.0.0.124 (14 June)

  • Improved colour and fonts for Aligner.
  • Checkmarks for Aligner to record which lines you've checked.
  • Concord search-word: typing <Enter> starts the search.
  • Help system updates, see What's New

9.0.0.123 (28 May)

  • Fix: para and sentence counts.
  • Concord patterns now uses stoplist.
  • Help system updates, see What's New

9.0.0.121 (20 May)

  • Fix: hyphen settings.
  • New: number formats.
  • Help system updates, see What's New

9.0.0.120 (12 May)

  • Fix: multi-word seaches.
  • Help system updates, see What's New

9.0.0.119 (12 May)

  • Fixes: hide empty tags, searching tagged text.
  • Help system updates, see What's New

9.0.0.118 (9 May)

  • Pattern double-click to sort (like collocates).
  • Copy search-word to Set column function restored.
  • Fix for Concord read problem.
  • Help system updates, see What's New

9.0.0.117 (1 May)

  • Small fixes.
  • New: counts from saved data.
  • Help system updates, see What's New

9.0.0.116 (22 Apr)

  • Concord wildcards fix.
  • Improved: Text Similarity, Duplicate contents search.
  • Help system updates, see What's New

9.0.0.115 (12 Apr)

  • Concord context word fix.
  • New: Overall Statistics tab (WordList).
  • Help system updates, see What's New

9.0.0.114 (10 Apr)

  • KeyWords settings fix.
  • Corpus Checker report saving fix.
  • New: Corpus Check report as table.
  • Help system updates, see What's New

9.0.0.113 (3 Apr)

  • Fix for WordList processing (affected by earlier batch changes).
  • New: Concord allows context search e.g. L8 to L2
  • Help system updates, see What's New

9.0.0.112 (2 Apr)

  • Speed improvements saving and reading data.
  • Fix for tag search with asterisk in a tag
  • Tag colours fix
  • Help system updates, see What's New

9.0.0.111 (27 Mar)

  • Speed improvements in Compute Concordance from a WordList index.
  • Fix for context word search
  • Help system updates, see What's New

9.0.0.110 (25 Mar)

  • Compute Concordance (from outside Concord) offers options such as case sensitive, context word etc.
  • Batch process by month/year
  • Help system updates, see What's New

9.0.0.109 (15 Mar)

  • Colour and font fixes in Columns Layout, Excel output.
  • New: Cumulative column.
  • Help system updates, see What's New

9.0.0.108 (7 Mar)

  • Marked items fix.
  • KW plot fixes.
  • Help system updates, see What's New

9.0.0.107 (3 Mar)

  • Plot fix.
  • Approximate values indicator (~).
  • Help system updates, see What's New

9.0.0.106 (2 Mar)

  • Double-click on file-names in Explorer fixed.
  • Corpus Checker | Build sub-corpora now puts number of text files in the file-name.
  • Fixes: Dispersion, Column Totals.
  • Help system updates, see What's New

9.0.0.105 (24 Feb)

  • KeyWords plot fix.
  • Compounds fix and speeded up.
  • Dispersion and filenames display with ? for non-Unicode data
  • Help system updates, see What's New

9.0.0.104 (18 Feb)

9.0.0.103 (04 Feb)

  • Minor fixes.
  • Phrase frame handling corrected.
  • Working on concgrams.
  • Help system updates, see What's New

9.0.0.102 (27 Jan)

  • Minor fixes.
  • Tag clearing button.
  • Phrase frame handling corrected.
  • Warning if empty texts or tags exclude any text.
  • Multi-word lemma handling fix.
  • Improved handling of whole word concordancing such as as far *
  • Help system updates, see What's New

9.0.0.101 (18 Jan)

  • Minor fixes.
  • Taskbar icons corrected.
  • Help system updates, see What's New

9.0.0.100 (12 Jan)

  • Launch of WordSmith 9.
  • Help system updates, see What's New