What the anagram solver does
An anagram is a rearrangement of every letter in a word or phrase into another valid word. This solver finds all of them. Type the letters, and the first section lists each dictionary word that uses every single letter you entered; the second section, collapsed by default, lists the shorter words made from a subset of the same letters. It uses the same public-domain ENABLE dictionary and the same scoring as the unscrambler, so results are consistent across the site, and it supports up to three blanks.
How to use it
- Type the scrambled letters into the box. Spaces and punctuation are ignored.
- Add a question mark for each blank if you are solving a tile-game rack with a wildcard.
- Press Search. Full-length anagrams appear first; if there are none, the tool says so and points you to the shorter words.
- Expand the shorter-words section to see everything else the letters can make, grouped by length.
- Use the filters to require a starting or ending letter, or to show only common words.
Examples
The letters of LISTEN rearrange into six words: ELINTS, ENLIST, INLETS, LISTEN, SILENT and TINSEL. RETAIN gives RETINA and RATINE. STONE has no exact anagram beyond NOTES, ONSET, SETON, STENO and TONES, which is already a generous set for five letters. For seven-letter racks the solver is the fastest way to check whether a bonus play exists: enter the rack, glance at the first section, and if it is empty look at the six-letter words instead.
Tips
- If the exact-length section is empty, add a blank. Many racks are one letter away from a full-length word, and the underlined letter tells you which tile you need.
- For crossword clues that say "anagram of" or hint at rearrangement, enter the clue's fodder here and check the length against the grid.
- Sort by common first when solving a puzzle for a newspaper or a classroom; the setter almost always wants the familiar word.
- Words with their own page link through to a full list of their sub-words, which is handy for exploring related racks.
Questions
What is the difference between this and the unscrambler?
The unscrambler lists every word you can make from any subset of the letters. The anagram solver puts the exact-length words first and tucks the shorter ones below, which is what you want when the question is specifically "what does this rearrange into".
Can it solve multi-word anagrams?
Not yet. Version one returns single words only. Two-word anagrams are on the roadmap; in the meantime, the shorter-words section lets you find pairs by hand.
Why is a word I expected missing?
Either it is not in the ENABLE list, or it uses a letter you did not enter. Proper nouns, hyphenated words and words with apostrophes are never included. The how it works page explains the dictionary in detail.