Why this solver
This anagram solver runs against a real, licensed British English wordlist of 38,328 words, not a scraped or partial list. Every result comes from sorting your letters into a fingerprint and matching it against the dictionary, the method set out on the definition page. Nothing is ranked or guessed; a word appears only if it is in the list.
The wordlist loads into your browser and every search after that runs on your own device, with nothing sent to a server. That is why answers arrive at once: there is no round trip over the network to wait for, only a lookup in data you already have.
Anagrams in word games
Scrabble, crosswords and cryptic clues all reward the same knack: seeing which real words a handful of letters can become. Crossword setters lean on it more than most, because an anagram is one of the standard cryptic devices - the letters of one word, reshuffled, spell the answer. A solver does not replace that knack so much as train it: try by hand first, then check against the list to find the word you missed.
The four tools linked below split the job up: strict every-letter anagrams; every word buildable from loose tiles, short ones included; the one hidden word behind a jumble; and rearranging a personal name.
Getting more out of it
A few features are easy to miss the first time round. The ? character stands for a blank tile: type a missing letter as ? and it will match any single letter in that place, as a blank does in most tile games. The starts-with and ends-with filters narrow the results to a known pattern, handy when a crossword grid already fixes one end of the word. Sorting by score rather than length puts the highest-value play first, which matters more than length once a Q, Z, J or X lands on the rack.
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Common questions
Is using an anagram solver cheating?
It depends who is asking. Among friends most people treat it as an ordinary reference tool, much as a crossword solver treats a thesaurus. Tournament Scrabble generally bans any outside help during a match, so check your game's or club's rules before a rated event: the answer comes from the rules, not the tool.
How complete is the wordlist?
It holds 38,328 words, under a licence that permits redistribution, with its source listed on the licences page. That is far smaller than the American English list, because it contains base forms only: plurals, verb endings and similar inflections are often missing. It is also not the list used by official Scrabble dictionaries, so a word may be playable in a tournament yet absent here, or the other way round.
Why is a word I know missing from the results?
Most often because the list holds base forms only, so a plural or an inflected verb can be absent even though the word is perfectly good. Proper nouns are left out deliberately, since names would flood ordinary results. If you suspect a rarer word, try the word unscrambler with a shorter subset of your letters.
Does it work for phrases as well as single words?
Yes. Spaces, punctuation and capital letters are ignored, so a whole phrase is treated as one long string of letters. The results are single words rather than reassembled phrases, so for a phrase anagram find the long words first and fill in the rest by hand from the leftover letters.
Are my letters sent anywhere?
No. The wordlist loads into your browser and each search runs on your own device; no letters go to a server, and there are no accounts or sign-ups. It works just as well on a phone, including at a table during a game, provided the house rules allow it.