A rack spelling “marble” can be played as “marble” itself, or as “ramble” and “ambler”, and the same letters yield five-letter words such as amber, amble, blame and realm. An unscrambler lists them longest first, so you can weigh a long play against a shorter, higher-scoring word.
Give an unscrambler your letters and it lists every real word they can make, whether it uses all of them or only some, from longest to shortest.
Hand it a jumble of letters and it works out every real word hiding in there, shorter ones included. Seven loose letters rarely play as a full seven-letter word, so results are ranked longest-first with the option to sort by score instead.
Competitive tile-game tournaments have run on exactly this kind of rack-management skill since the modern World Championship series began in the early 1990s - finding the highest-scoring word from a partial rack, not just the longest one.
This is the one for a rack of tiles where you want to see everything on offer. Want only the words that spend every letter? Tick "use every letter" and it behaves like the anagram generator.
Using it
- Type your letters in - the order makes no difference.
- Add a ? for each blank you are holding.
- Sort by score for the best-scoring play, or filter by a starting or ending letter.
Which of these four do you want?
All four run the same engine over the same wordlist. What changes is what each one assumes you are trying to get back.
| Tool | Reach for it when | You type |
|---|---|---|
| Anagram generator | Every word built from all your letters. | A word or phrase |
| Name anagram generator | The words hiding inside a name. | A first and last name |
| Word descrambler | The one hidden word behind a jumble. | One scrambled word |
| Word unscrambler | Everything buildable from your letters, short words too. | Loose or jumbled letters |
Questions people actually ask
Does it include short words?
Yes, from two letters up, unless you set a minimum length. Those are often exactly the words that still fit on a crowded board.