1. A word search apparatus comprising: a words dictionary for storing a plurality of entries of character strings; a character recognition dictionary for storing coordinate data of a standard character pattern of a character and a character corresponding to said coordinate data; a character input device for receiving an input of a plurality of coordinate data of input characters; means for performing a pattern matching between the received coordinate data of input characters and said character recognition dictionary; means for performing character recognition on each input character, and extracting a plurality of candidate characters for each input character; means for forming a plurality of candidate strings by combining one of said plurality of candidate characters for each input character; means for searching, in said words dictionary, for entries containing at least one of said plurality of candidate strings; means for extracting the candidate strings contained in the entries found in said searching; means for displaying at least one of the character strings found in said searching in a search result display area; means for displaying, in a partial character string display area, only the extractred character strings; means for receiving a selection of one of said extracted character strings; means for extracting words containing the selected candidate string from the entries found in said searching; and means for displaying only the extracted words in the search result display area.