Too lazy to write some words, or just want to be sure of its spelling, here’s a trick on how to get a list of words that start with the few letters you typed.

iChat: as you type the first letters of a word, press Escape (without moving the mouse cursor) and you’ll see this list:

On any other Mac OS X application, the same trick works with F5 (Mail in the image below):

If there are a lot of words in the list, it will only shows the first 100 results, sorted alphabetically. The results come from Mac OS X’s built-in dictionary.

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