Word Unscrambler & Anagram Solver

About the Word Unscrambler & Anagram Solver

Type the letters you have — a word-game rack, a jumble puzzle or a scrambled word — and get every English word that can be made from some or all of them, grouped by length with the longest first. Type ? for a blank tile and it stands for any letter (up to three blanks). Each word shows its points with the standard English tile values (A = 1 … Q and Z = 10, a blank scores 0), so you can see the best play at a glance.

The Anagram solver uses every letter exactly once: single-word anagrams (listen → silent, enlist, tinsel) and phrases of up to four words (dormitory → dirty room). The words come from SCOWL, the open English word lists behind many spell checkers, in three sizes and with American and British spellings told apart. Everything runs in your browser.

Common uses

• Finding the best play from a word-game rack, including blank tiles.
• Solving jumbles and scrambled-word puzzles in newspapers and puzzle books.
• Making anagram names, puzzle clues and wordplay for quizzes and writing.
• Classroom spelling and vocabulary games: how many words can you make from “classroom”?

Where the words come from

The word list is SCOWL (Spell Checker Oriented Word Lists) by Kevin Atkinson, from wordlist.aspell.net — about 116,000 English words including plurals and verb forms. SCOWL sorts words by how common they are: Common words are SCOWL sizes 10–35, the Standard list adds sizes 40–50, and the Large list goes up to size 70, which includes rare and technical words. Names, places and abbreviations (words SCOWL only writes with a capital) are left out, and so are single letters other than a and I, letter plurals such as cs and lower-case abbreviations such as kb — every word without a vowel except real ones like sh, hmm, brr and nth. Accented loanwords count without their accents (café → cafe), as in word games.

This is not an official tournament dictionary. Word games use their own lists (which differ between games and countries), so a word found here may not be accepted in your game, and some valid game words are missing. Check a disputed word in the dictionary your game uses.

Blank tiles and points

• A ? (or *, _ or .) is a blank tile. It can be any letter and scores 0. Your real tiles are used first, so a blank is only used where a letter is missing.
• Points use the standard English tile values: A, E, I, L, N, O, R, S, T, U = 1; D, G = 2; B, C, M, P = 3; F, H, V, W, Y = 4; K = 5; J, X = 8; Q, Z = 10.
• The points are the face value of the tiles only — board bonuses (double and triple squares) and bonuses for using all your tiles depend on the game and where you play.

How the anagram solver works

An anagram uses every letter exactly once. The solver collects every word that fits inside your letters, then searches for combinations whose letters add up exactly to yours, longest words first. Phrases are listed with the fewest words first, then the most common words. Word order is not shuffled: dirty room is shown once, not also as room dirty.

Long inputs can have millions of combinations, so the search stops after 2,000 combinations or about 2.5 seconds and says so. Use Must include or allow fewer words per phrase to explore the rest.

Limitations

• Not an official tournament dictionary: accepted words differ between games and countries.
• No names, places, abbreviations or words with hyphens or apostrophes.
• Up to 20 tiles with at most 3 blanks for unscrambling; up to 30 letters, no blanks, for anagrams.
• Phrase anagrams are searched for up to about 2.5 seconds; very long inputs show only part of the results.
• Points are tile values only, without board bonuses.

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