Anacryptogram solver!

Letter pool:

Sentence:

Checklist:

Suggest words (slower!) # of suggestions: from:

Suggestions: Shuffle

Use wordlists (possibly slow!)

Bad words:

Extra letters:

Type your sentence above. The word counts and letter pool will update. It will let you know if you use too many letters, and if you get a valid sentence. Also, now hitting "Enter" will shuffle the letters. It will un-shuffle when you keep typing, but for now, that'll have to do.
Additionally, thanks to inspiration/code form @alapl051, it now checks to see if your words are okay in length and are in the list, and can suggest new words. It may be slow for some people/browsers - try Mozilla Firefox if you have problems. Enjoy!

Image url: Anacryptogram:

Hints checklist:

Letters left:

Wow! I would say it's been a long time since I've thought about this thing, which it has, but I have remembered it from time to time over the years, and checked in to make sure it's still kicking. I just went through and added the final hint and cleared out a few other cobwebs, so do use the chatbox or hit me up on Mastodon if things are funky.

Hey y'all! This thing has evidently proved very useful. [Edit: over the last...13 years?? Holy cow!] So...yeah, keep using it, and let me know if you find any problems with it, by Mastodon or email. Thanks to @pogil for the #qwantzle hashtag. Best of luck, solvers!

Updates:

2023-02-01 7:00pm: Fixed the w rule to ignore punctuation, thanks to the kind human who messaged me on Mastodon! Also added links to my archive of the corpus.
2023-02-01 10:12am: *taps mic* Hello? Is this thing on?? Huh! I guess it is! Anyway, I added the final hint, and did some tidying. Like Ryan, I love websites and I hope that once corporate aggregation platforms are nothing but a memory, individual websites in all their quirkiness will continue to be around. Happy to do my part in ensuring that stays the case 🙂
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Resources

Hints:

The solution is one sentence, with the two exclamation points together at the end.
Note that this, together with the hint that there are no other proper nouns, strongly implies that all three capital I's are the word "I" - thanks, @alapl051, decode, and Matt!
All words in the solution are dictionary words.
What's more, all words in the solution are in the Jadrian's awesome Qwantz Corpus! (archived from the original which has sadly linkrotted)
The solution is natural-sounding, reasonably-grammatical dialogue that T-Rex would say, using phrasing that T-Rex would use.
The punctuation :,!! is in the solution, in that order!
The longest word in the solution is 11 characters long, the second-longest is 8 characters long, and they're side-by-side in the solution.
The solution does not refer to anagrams or puzzles or winning t-shirts.
However, what T-Rex is saying is directly related to the content of the comic the puzzle appears in.
The letters given are case-sensitive!
The first word of the solution is "I".
This solver thing works!
The final letter is "w"

Word Lists:

The official XML list of all Dinosaur Comics text
Paul Stansifer's Qwantzle Data, with ngrams, 2grams, and 3grams.
@jadrian's original Qwantz corpus (the original link rotted, but I had a copy)
@kkutani's list of valid words words from @jadrian's corpus (ed: also rotted, I have a similar list that may or may not be @kkutani's, but should be equivalent. You can also get it without numbers.)
@alapl051's space-delimited word list and 11-letter word list (archive)
E-mailed lists: 11-letter list from Mr. Beingessner, alphabetical 11-letter list from Ben Johnson, 11-letter by frequency and filtered by length by frequency from Reverend Ted

Other scripts/solvers:

@alapl051's modification of this page that checks for valid words and gives suggestions (link dead, but changes were integrated back into this site)
@jadrian's handy branch-and-bound solver in Python (link dead, no archive)
@xyzzy_b's Ruby script of a similar bent to this thing
@kkutani's brute-force perl script