Hey, I\'m making a Web Based anagram game for fun and practice. The game presents the player with a word and the player needs only to construct new words out of letters cont
John Resig (of jQuery fame) recently wrote a series of blog posts about fast spell checking for a Javascript-based anagram game he's working on.
http://ejohn.org/blog/dictionary-lookups-in-javascript/
http://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-trie-performance-analysis/
http://ejohn.org/blog/revised-javascript-dictionary-search/
You might be able to skip to the last one where he wraps up all his findings there. It is quite in depth, measuring up look-up speed, download time, initialization time..