Anagram Solver: Rearrange Every Letter Into A New Word

An anagram is a word or phrase made by rearranging every letter of another word or phrase, using each letter exactly once. LISTEN and SILENT are a classic example: same six letters, rearranged into two different real words.

A true anagram uses every letter you provide, no more and no fewer. A general unscramble also shows you shorter words made from just some of your letters. This tool defaults to true anagrams; untick the switch above the results to see subset matches too.

Type your letters into the box. By default the tool only shows words that use every one of those letters at once. Turn off the Use every tile switch if you'd also like to see shorter words hiding inside the same letters.

You can try, but keep in mind the dictionary behind this tool is built from standard English words rather than names, so a lot of names won't produce a clean dictionary anagram.

Both, really. Type a set of letters and it generates every valid anagram it can find, which also makes it useful as a puzzle solver when you're stuck on one specific jumble.

Plenty. LISTEN and SILENT is one of the most cited. ASTRONOMER and MOON STARER is a longer, cleverer one, though it needs a space, which single word tools like this one don't handle. DORMITORY and DIRTY ROOM is another popular pair.

It varies enormously. Some words have zero true anagrams, most have just one or two, and a handful of letter combinations produce a surprising number. LISTEN happens to have five.

Not currently. It works on a single continuous string of letters, so it's built for one word at a time rather than multi word phrases.

It works well for that. Type your full rack in with Use every tile switched on to see every word that clears the whole rack at once, which is exactly the kind of play worth searching for in Scrabble.

It checks against ENABLE, a free public domain word list built for word game software. See the Check Dictionary page for how that compares with licensed tournament word lists.

That depends entirely on the letters you type in. Longer words are less likely to have a same length anagram at all, so once you get past nine or ten letters, exact anagrams become fairly rare.

Yes, just untick Use every tile and the tool switches into unscramble mode, showing every shorter word your letters can also spell.

Yes, type ? or * for any letter you don't know, and the tool treats it as a wildcard when searching for anagrams.

Yes, open the filters and add a prefix or suffix alongside your letters to narrow a long anagram list down to the specific word you're thinking of.

They're a solid way to notice patterns in English spelling, and working out unfamiliar anagrams is a good way to bump into words you don't already know.

No, they're different concepts entirely. An anagram rearranges letters into a different word. A palindrome reads the same forwards and backwards, like LEVEL or RACECAR, and doesn't need to rearrange anything.

The whole point of an anagram is that order doesn't matter, only which letters are present and how many of each. LISTEN and SILENT share the exact same letters, just arranged differently.

This tool searches from a set of letters rather than comparing two words directly, but you can type one word's letters in and see whether the other word appears in the results.

Yes, completely free, with no sign up or download needed.

It depends on the setting. Casual games with friends usually don't mind, while ranked or tournament play typically doesn't allow outside tools mid game. Check the house rules if you're unsure.

Not currently. It's built as a standalone browser tool rather than an API service.

Most sets of letters have very few, if any, true anagrams. A short list, or even an empty one, is completely normal and doesn't mean anything went wrong.