For when you only have 1 x A-Z type on hand (or an otherwise limited number of letterpress sorts,) these tools can help you figure out what you can print in one pass.
Coded by Amanda Wyatt Visconti as they find themselves needing little bits of code to aid printwork; deliberately 90s design.
Finds synonyms for the word you input, removes any that use any letter more than once, then displays the rest. (Only works with single-word inputs, not phrases.)
Useful if you only have A-Z type, 1 sort per letter, on hand—but want to letterpress print without needing to make multiple passes moving letters around in between and hoping you register things correctly so it looks okay.
Enter the letters/word(s) from your 1xA-Z type you're planning to use, to see which letters of the alphabet are left for other uses. Then paste those letters into a tool like Unscrambler (choose "all dictionaries") to see possible words you can make from those letters.
Sometimes sellers offer inexpensive sets of characters that don't have all A-Z sorts; I'm particularly thinking of when they offer something like 7-12 letters (e.g. "CCDFFLLNOZ" or see example screenshot below from Ebay), for this tool: when you want to know whether one of the words you a care about (a "keyword") is spellable, if you buy the set. Thumbs up means it's spellable with your entered letters; thumbs down means you're an awesome person but can't spell the words you entered with those letters.
Type the letters you have available:
Type the words you want to check (separated by commas):
(Other folks, this part just checks letters against my personal list of frequently used terms. You can run it if you think you may be interested in similar terms, I guess?)
Amanda Wyatt, type the letters you have available:
This tool by Ian Schaefer counts the characters you need for the paragraph you input, and allows you to note if you want to count any double characters as single sorts (e.g. if you have the ff f-ligature on hand).