What it does
Type in the letters you have — from a rack of tiles, a puzzle, or just a jumble — and this tool lists every word in its dictionary that you can spell with them. It is built for word games like Scrabble, Words With Friends and anagram puzzles, where you can see the letters but not the words hiding in them.
How it works
The clever part is an old trick: two words are anagrams of each other exactly when their letters, sorted into alphabetical order, are identical. "Listen" and "silent" both sort to eilnst. So every word in the dictionary is stored alongside its sorted-letters "fingerprint", and that fingerprint column is indexed.
To find the words you can make, the tool sorts your letters, then looks up not just that exact fingerprint but the fingerprint of every smaller combination of your letters too — so you get full-length anagrams and all the shorter words. Because the lookup is an indexed match rather than a scan through hundreds of thousands of words, it returns in a few milliseconds.
Worked example
Give it the letters listen and, among others, it finds: enlist, inlets, listen, silent, slinte, tinsel — the six letters rearrange into several complete words, plus many shorter ones.
Common uses
- Scrabble and Words With Friends: find the highest-scoring word your rack allows.
- Anagram and crossword puzzles: unjumble a clue or fill a tricky gap.
- Learning and teaching: explore the words a set of letters can build.
Frequently asked
Does it only show full anagrams?
No. It shows full-length anagrams and every shorter word you can make from a subset of your letters, grouped by length so the longest are easy to spot.
Are these all valid in Scrabble?
The dictionary is a large general word list, so it is broader than any single game's official list. Treat unusual results with a little caution if you are playing competitively.
Is my input sent anywhere?
Your letters are looked up on our server (that is where the dictionary lives), but they are not stored, and nothing else about your query is kept.