Why this solver
This anagram solver runs against a real, licensed English wordlist of 269,870 words, sourced from SCOWL, the spell-checking wordlist project this dictionary is licensed from, not a scraped or partial list. Every result is computed by sorting your letters into a fingerprint and matching it against that dictionary, the same method described on the definition page. There is no ranking or guessing involved, only a match against words that actually exist.
The dictionary loads once into your browser. Every search after that runs locally, with nothing sent to a server. That is also why results appear instantly: there is no round trip to wait on, just a lookup against data already sitting on your device.
Anagrams in word games
Scrabble, Words with Friends and crossword puzzles all reward the same underlying skill: seeing which real words a set of letters can become. The tile-swap game most directly behind that skill is called Anagrams itself. It is genuinely old. An early printed version, Charles Hammett's "Word Making and Taking," dates to 1877, and Parker Brothers published "The Game of Letters and Anagrams on Wooden Blocks" around 1890. A version of it is still popular among tournament Scrabble players today, played with spare tiles from a Scrabble set.
The four tools linked below split that skill into specific tasks: strict, every-letter anagrams; every word buildable from loose tiles, short ones included; the single hidden word behind a jumble puzzle; and rearranging a personal name.
Getting more from it
A few features on this page are easy to miss on a first visit. The ? character stands in for a blank tile: type "lis?en" and it matches any single letter in that position, the same way a blank behaves in most tile games. The starts-with and ends-with filters narrow results to a known pattern, useful when a crossword grid or a partly-filled board already fixes one end of the word. Sorting by score instead of length surfaces the highest-value play first. That matters more than word length once Q, X, Z and J land on the rack.
What is an anagram? → · Licences →
Common questions
Is using an anagram solver considered cheating?
Depends who is asking. In casual play, most people treat it as a normal reference tool, the same way a crossword solver treats a thesaurus. Competitive Scrabble and tournament word games generally forbid any outside tool during a match, so check your specific game or club's rules before a graded event, since the answer depends on the ruleset rather than on the tool itself.
How accurate is the word list?
Big, but not exhaustive: 269,870 words, under a licence that permits redistribution, listed with its source on the licences page. It is not the same list used by official Scrabble dictionaries, so a word like "qi" might behave differently here than it does in a tournament dictionary, or vice versa.
Why is a word I know missing from the results?
Usually one of two culprits: a proper noun, deliberately excluded from these wordlists since names would flood ordinary results, or a specialised or regional word the licensed list simply does not include. Try the word unscrambler with a shorter subset of your letters if you suspect the second case.
Does it work for phrases as well as single words?
Yes. Spaces and punctuation are ignored, so a full phrase is treated as one long string of letters. Multi-word output for a long phrase is a much larger search than single-word lookup, so results tend to favour single words unless you are specifically looking for a phrase anagram.
Can I use this on a phone during an in-person game?
Sure, it works fine on mobile and needs no sign-up. Just check your game's house rules first: the same "is this cheating" answer applies regardless of which device you use it on.