Anagram solver
Drop in your letters and get every word you can make, longest first, each with its Scrabble score. Use ? for a blank tile, and narrow things down by starts with, ends with, length or contains.
What is an anagram?
An anagram is a word or phrase made by rearranging the letters of another, using every letter exactly once. Rearrange the letters of LISTEN and you get SILENT; shuffle DORMITORY and you can spell DIRTY ROOM. The word itself comes from the Greek ana (again) and gramma (letter), so an anagram is literally a re-lettering.
People have played with anagrams for centuries, as puzzles, pen names and hidden messages, and today they turn up in Scrabble, Words With Friends, crosswords, the newspaper Jumble and Wordle. When someone says anagram solver, word unscrambler or word finder, they usually mean a tool like this one: hand it your letters and it finds every word hiding inside them.
Anagram examples
Some anagrams read like they were meant to be, the rearranged letters spell something that fits the original almost too well:
How to solve an anagram
Faced with a scramble of letters and no idea where to start? A few habits make anagrams much easier to crack:
- Pull the vowels out from the consonants and see which pairings jump out.
- Look for common endings like -ING, -ED, -ER, -TION and -LY, and prefixes like RE-, UN- and DIS-. Setting those aside shrinks the puzzle.
- Build around the awkward letters first. If you are holding a Q, J, X or Z, start there.
- Shuffle two or three letters at a time instead of staring at the whole jumble.
And when you are truly stuck, that is what the solver above is for: type the letters in and it shows every word they can make.
How to use the anagram solver
Type the letters you have into the big box and the unscrambler rearranges them into every valid word as you type, grouped by length with the longest, highest-scoring plays first. Stuck with an awkward rack? Add a ? as a wildcard and it stands in for any letter, up to three.
Four filters refine the list: starts with and ends with for words anchored at one end, contains for a letter that must appear, and length for words of an exact size. It doubles as a Scrabble helper, a Words With Friends cheat, a crossword and Jumble aid and a Wordle word generator, anywhere you need to make words from a set of letters.
Frequently asked questions
What is an anagram?
A word or phrase made by rearranging all the letters of another, using each letter exactly once. LISTEN and SILENT are anagrams of each other, and so are DORMITORY and DIRTY ROOM.
Is an anagram solver the same as a word unscrambler?
Yes, those two are the same thing: both take your loose letters and find every word you can spell with them. An anagram generator or anagram maker usually means something slightly different, rearranging a whole word, name or phrase into a new one. That is a job for our <a href="/anagram-generator/">anagram generator</a>.
Does an anagram have to use every letter?
A true anagram uses every letter once, like ASTRONOMER and MOON STARER. In word games you rarely need the whole rack, so the solver also lists every shorter word your letters can make, longest first.
How do you solve a tricky anagram?
Separate the vowels from the consonants, look for common prefixes and suffixes, and build around rare letters like Q, J, X and Z. If it still will not budge, type the letters into the solver above.
Can I use it for Scrabble and Words With Friends?
Yes. Every word comes with its Scrabble score, and the filters help you find a play that fits the board. It works for Words With Friends, crosswords, the Jumble and Wordle too.