What counts as an anagram
An anagram uses every letter of the original exactly once, in a new order. LISTEN becomes ELINTS, ENLIST, INLETS, SILENT, TINSEL. STOP becomes OPTS, POST, POTS, SPOT, TOPS. Words that use only some of the letters are not anagrams, but they are useful in games, so we list them in a second section, grouped by length.
How to use it
- Type the word or letters. Order does not matter.
- Look at the first group: those words use every letter.
- Scroll for shorter words. Tap any word to see what it means.
- Unsure of one letter? Use ? for it and the solver tries all 26.
Where anagrams help
- Jumble and scrambled-word puzzles. Each jumbled word has one answer that uses all its letters, and the first group shows it.
- Cryptic crosswords. Clues often hint at an anagram with words like mixed, broken or wild. Enter the letters from the clue.
- Scrabble and Words With Friends. A seven-letter anagram of your rack is a bingo worth a bonus. For full scoring, use the Scrabble word finder.
- Names and wordplay. Writers use anagrams for pen names and puzzle titles. Our list has dictionary words only, no names or places.
Our word list
The solver uses ENABLE, an open list of English words, so results contain real words and no proper nouns, abbreviations or made-up strings. Some rare words appear because they are valid in word games. See how our word list works.
Questions people ask
What is the difference between an anagram and a word unscrambler?
An anagram uses all the letters. An unscrambler shows every word you can make, including shorter ones. This page puts full anagrams first; the word unscrambler sorts all words by length.
Why does my word have no anagrams?
Many words have none. Try the shorter words listed below the results, or add a blank with ? to see what one extra letter would allow.
Can it solve phrases with several words?
Not yet. It finds single-word anagrams. Multi-word anagrams are on our list of planned features.
How long can the input be?
Up to 18 letters, including up to three ? blanks.