Anagram Solver

How to use the anagram solver

1. Enter your letters. Type the word or jumble you want to solve. Order doesn't matter, and each letter is used once — if a word needs two E's, type E twice.
2. Add wildcards for unknowns. Not sure about a letter? Put a ? or * in its place and the solver tries all 26 letters there.
3. Read the exact anagrams first. The green band at the top shows every dictionary word that uses all of your letters — the true anagrams.
4. Browse the partial anagrams. Below that, every word made from some of your letters is grouped by length, longest first. Tap any word for its definition.

An example: solving LISTEN

Type LISTEN and the exact anagrams appear immediately: SILENT, TINSEL, ENLIST, INLETS. Below them you'll find the partial anagrams — five-letter words like INLET and ISLET, four-letter words like LINT, NEST, and TILE, and so on down to the two-letter words. One search shows the whole picture: the full rearrangements on top, everything else your letters can spell underneath.

Exact anagrams vs. partial anagrams

A true anagram uses every letter exactly once — that's what the top section shows, and it's what most anagram puzzles, jumbles, and trivia questions are after. A partial anagram (sometimes called a sub-anagram) uses only some of the letters. Word games like Scrabble and Words With Friends care about those too, which is why we list them all below the exact matches. If you only want words of one specific length, use the length filter to narrow the results.

Choose your dictionary

Different games accept different words, so the solver lets you pick the word list that matches what you're playing:

Switching dictionaries changes which words count as valid, so set it before you search — a word that scores in Scrabble UK may be rejected in a US Scrabble game.

Famous anagrams (and a little history)

Anagrams are older than you might think: word-lovers were rearranging letters as far back as the 4th century BC, and by the Middle Ages they were treated as almost mystical. Today they're pure fun — and some are famous for how neatly the letters land. A few favourites:

The magic of a great anagram is that the new phrase comments on the original — “the classroom” really is where a schoolmaster belongs. That's a tall order for a solver, but it's exactly the kind of wordplay these letters can produce once you start rearranging them.

Solving multi-word and phrase anagrams

Many puzzle anagrams hide a single word, and that's the solver's core job. When your letters spell a longer phrase, drop the spaces and enter them as one string — the solver works from the letters themselves, not the spacing, so it still finds the words those letters contain. For a rack of tiles you want to build into your highest-scoring play rather than a single rearrangement, our word unscrambler groups results by length and score.

Using it as an anagram generator

An anagram solver and an anagram generator are two sides of the same coin. If you're not solving a puzzle but making an anagram — a clever rearrangement of a name, a team, or a phrase — enter your letters and scan the exact-anagram list for words and combinations that fit what you're going for. It's the fastest way to see every rearrangement your letters allow before you settle on the one with the perfect twist.

Where an anagram solver helps

• Jumble and word scramble puzzles — decode the daily jumble in seconds instead of staring at the letters.
• Crosswords — cryptic clues often hide anagrams; enter the fodder letters and the answer pops out.
• Trivia — “How many words can you make from ANAGRAM?” Now you'll know the exact answer.
• Scrabble and Words With Friends — see if your full rack makes a bingo, then check the shorter fallbacks. For rack-building with scores, try our word unscrambler.
• Wordle and daily word games — narrow down candidates from confirmed letters, or use the Wordle solver for green, yellow, and grey clues.

How the solver finds anagrams so fast

Instead of testing every possible arrangement of your letters — 7 letters alone have 5,040 orderings — the solver reduces your input to a sorted letter signature and looks up every dictionary word that shares it. Words with the same letters in any order have the same signature, so exact anagrams are found in a single pass. Partial anagrams are matched by checking each candidate word's letter counts against yours, with wildcards filling any gaps. The whole search finishes in a fraction of a second, even with 15 letters and blanks.