Anagram Solver

An anagram is a word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of another one, using every letter exactly once. “Listen” becomes “silent”, “enlist” and “tinsel”; “dormitory” becomes “dirty room”. This solver takes the letters you type and checks them against a list of more than 100,000 English words to show every word that can be made from them.

By default it shows full anagrams first (words that use all of your letters) and then shorter words that can be built from a subset, grouped by length. If you only want true anagrams, switch off “Also show shorter words”. Type a question mark for a blank tile or an unknown letter and the solver will try every letter in its place.

Every word is reduced to a count of its letters: “listen” is one each of e, i, l, n, s and t. A candidate word is a match when it needs no more copies of any letter than you supplied. For a full anagram the word must also be exactly as long as your input. Blank tiles can fill in at most as many missing letters as you have blanks. Because the check compares letter counts rather than testing every possible ordering, the answer is instant even for 15 letters, where brute-force permutation would involve over a trillion arrangements.

The search runs in your browser against a word list loaded from this site. The letters you enter are never sent anywhere.

Word-game players use anagram solvers to find a play from a rack of tiles, to check whether a long word is possible, or to learn which words share the same letters. Crossword and cryptic-crossword solvers use them to decode clues that include the instruction “rearranged”, “mixed up” or “in a mess”. Puzzle writers use them to check that a scramble has a unique answer, and teachers use them for spelling and vocabulary exercises.

Anagrams are also popular for pen names, team names and party games. Remember that this tool works with single words from a dictionary. It does not build multi-word phrase anagrams such as “astronomer” → “moon starer”.

Look for common endings first: -ing, -ed, -er, -es and -ly are easy to spot in a jumble and quickly narrow the options. Sets of letters that are rarely adjacent in English, such as q without u, usually point to specific words. If the solver shows no full anagram, try one blank (?) in case you have mis-copied a letter, or switch on shorter words to see the best partial fit.

The word list is a broad, general English list of everyday words with regular plurals and verb forms. It deliberately leaves out proper nouns and abbreviations. It is not an official tournament dictionary, so a very obscure but valid game word may be missing. If a game rejects a word suggested here, check the official dictionary for that game.