Anagram Solver
Type up to fifteen letters and see every word the full ENABLE dictionary can make from them: the exact anagrams that use all of your letters first, then the shorter words grouped by length. Blank tiles, a minimum length and a must-contain filter narrow the list, and each word carries its Scrabble score. The word list downloads once on your first search and every search after that runs in your browser, so nothing you type is sent anywhere.
Unscramble any letters
Type up to 15 letters below and every word they make appears, longest first.
Longest words first, grouped by how many letters they use. Words come from the ENABLE list, downloaded once on your first search and then searched entirely in this browser. Minimum length trims the shorter words only: a word that uses every letter you typed always shows.
Standard English tile values
The scores above use these, the letter values printed on an English Scrabble set. They count the letters only: board premiums, the seven-tile bonus and any house rules are yours to add.
| Points | Letters |
|---|---|
| 1 | A E I O U L N S T R |
| 2 | D G |
| 3 | B C M P |
| 4 | F H V W Y |
| 5 | K |
| 8 | J X |
| 10 | Q Z |
| 0 | Blank tile, any letter |
Common questions
- Which dictionary does this anagram solver use?
- ENABLE, the Enhanced North American Benchmark Lexicon: 172,823 words, public domain, and the list a large share of word games and word finders are built on. It is not the official Scrabble tournament list for any territory, so some words will differ from TWL in North America or from Collins elsewhere. If a word matters for a scored game, check it against the list that game actually uses.
- How do blank tiles and wildcards work?
- Two ways, and they add up to the same thing. Type a question mark among your letters, or use the Blanks control in the readout. Up to two blanks are allowed, and each one stands in for any letter of the alphabet. A blank scores nothing, exactly as on a board, so the score shown has the value of the letter it covered taken off and gets a dotted underline to show it happened.
- Does it find shorter words, not just full anagrams?
- Yes, and they are the bulk of the answer. Words that use every letter you typed come first in their own row, because that is usually what people mean by an anagram. Everything shorter follows, grouped by length with the longest group first and alphabetical inside each group. The minimum length control trims the short end of that list, and it never hides the words that use all your letters. Sorting by score or A to Z replaces the length groups with one ranked list.
- Why does the first search download a file, and how big is it?
- Because searching a dictionary needs the dictionary, and this tool has no server to hold it. The ENABLE list is 1.7 MB of plain text, roughly 450 KB compressed in transit, and it is fetched from this site on your first search rather than when the page loads, so reading the page costs nothing. It is then held in memory for the rest of the page and every later search is instant.
- How is the Scrabble score worked out?
- By adding up the standard English tile values, which are listed in full under the results: one point for A, E, I, O, U, L, N, S, T and R, up to ten for Q and Z. It scores the letters and nothing else. Double and triple squares, the fifty-point bonus for using all seven tiles, and any house rules are yours to add, because they depend on where the word lands rather than on the word.
- What does the must-contain box do?
- It keeps only the words that include those letters, in any order and anywhere in the word. Typing ing finds string and lining, not just words ending in ing. Repeats count, so entering ss asks for two of them. If the letters you require cannot come out of your rack even with a blank, the tool says so rather than showing an empty list.
- Is there a limit on how many words it shows?
- It shows the first 500 and counts the rest, which only comes up with long racks: nine common letters can make well over 800 words. The words that use every one of your letters are always kept, and the remaining places go to the top of whichever order you chose: sorting by length keeps the longest of the rest, sorting by score keeps the highest scoring of the rest. The best score shown in the readout is the best of what is actually listed. Raising the minimum length is usually the fastest way to bring the list back under the cap.
- Are the words I search sent anywhere?
- No. The only request this tool makes is for the word list, and it goes to this site. Your letters are matched against that list inside your browser, so there is no search history to keep and nothing to upload. Once the list has loaded, searching carries on working with the network switched off.
Words come from the ENABLE list, the public-domain list most word games use, so a valid word here is valid in most games but not necessarily in every dictionary. Scores use the standard English tile values.