Free Word Unscrambler & Anagram Solver
Unscramble letters into English words with ? blank tiles. Results grouped by length with Scrabble scores and starts, ends or contains filters.
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How to unscramble letters and find anagrams
Type your letters, with ? for blanks, to see every English word they make, longest first, with Scrabble scores and filters.
- Type up to 15 letters in Your letters. Use ? (or *) for up to three blank tiles that can stand for any letter.
- Optionally fill Starts with, Contains or Ends with. Tick These letters are on the board if those letters are not in your rack but already placed on the board.
- Set Min length and Max length, or tick Anagrams only to see only words that use every letter.
- Pick English (US) or English (UK) spelling and sort by highest score or A to Z.
- Read the groups from longest to shortest. Letters supplied by a blank are underlined and score 0.
- Use Copy or Download .txt to keep the list.
When a word unscrambler helps
Word games such as Scrabble, Words With Friends, crosswords, jumbles and daily letter puzzles all come down to the same question: which real words hide in this handful of letters? Your brain is good at spotting short words and terrible at checking every arrangement. Six letters can be arranged in 720 orders, and seven letters in 5,040, before you even consider shorter words.
The tool is also useful away from games. Teachers build spelling exercises from a set of letters, writers hunt for an anagram for a character name, and people stuck on a puzzle want to check whether a long word is possible before giving up. Because the results are grouped by length, you can jump straight to the longest options, which usually matter most.
Worked example: PLANET, with and without a blank
Type PLANET with the minimum length at 3. The US list returns 63 words: 2 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words and 27 three-letter words. The six-letter group holds planet and platen, the only anagrams that use every letter, and each is worth 8 points (P is 3, every other letter is 1). Tick Anagrams only and just those two remain. Type P in Starts with and the list drops to 26 words.
Now add one blank: PLANET?. The count jumps to 589 words, and a seven-letter group appears with aplenty, penalty, planter and replant. Each scores 8 rather than more, because the blank fills the missing letter (the Y in penalty, the R in planter) and blanks are worth 0. A shorter example shows the same rule: QUI? makes quid, quin, quip, quit and quiz, and quiz scores 12, not 22, because the Z comes from the blank.
How the search works
When the page opens it downloads a plain text list of about 38,000 English base words, built from the open-source Hunspell dictionaries that spell checkers use. Entries starting with a capital letter (names, places, acronyms) are removed, and only words of 2 to 15 plain letters a to z are kept. The UK option uses the British dictionary, so colour appears there and color in the US list.
For each word the tool counts the letters you typed and checks whether the word can be built from them. When a letter is missing, a blank is used if you have one left; if not, the word is skipped. Matching words are then filtered by your starts, contains and ends letters and your length limits, grouped by length, and sorted by tile score using the standard English Scrabble values: A, E, I, O, U, L, N, S, T and R are 1, D and G are 2, B, C, M and P are 3, F, H, V, W and Y are 4, K is 5, J and X are 8, Q and Z are 10.
Common mistakes
The most common surprise is a missing plural. The list keeps base forms, so tinsel and listen appear, but many words ending in -s, -ed or -ing do not. If you need tournament-legal words, check the official list for your region, because North American and international Scrabble play use different dictionaries.
Another mistake is confusing filters with board letters. With the board option off, Contains only keeps words made from your own rack that happen to include those letters. If the letters are already on the board, tick These letters are on the board so they are added to your rack. Finally, remember that scores ignore premium squares, so the highest listed score is not always the best move on a real board.
Useful tips and limitations
- Adding a single blank multiplies the results: PLANET makes 63 words of three letters or more, PLANET? makes 589.
- Scores are tile values only. Double and triple squares on a real board change the final score.
- Set Min length to 4 or 5 when you only care about bigger plays; short words otherwise fill the list.
- Switch to English (UK) for games that follow British spelling, such as words ending in -our.
Common questions
Which dictionary does the Word Unscrambler use?
Base words from the open-source Hunspell English dictionaries (US and UK). Proper nouns, abbreviations and words with apostrophes or accents are left out.
Does the Word Unscrambler include plurals?
Mostly no. The list keeps dictionary base forms, so many plurals and verb endings such as -s, -ed and -ing are missing. Official Scrabble lists such as NWL or Collins may accept words that do not appear here.
How are blank tiles scored?
A blank (?) is worth 0 points. When a word needs a letter you do not have, the blank covers it and that letter is underlined in the result.
Can the word unscrambler solve Wordle?
It can list five-letter words from letters you know. Set Min and Max length to 5 and add ? blanks for unknown positions, but it does not track letter positions or colours.
Why is a real word missing from the results?
The list is limited to dictionary base forms without proper nouns, so inflected forms, slang, very new words and names are often absent.
How many letters can I enter?
Up to 15 letters, including up to three ? blanks. More blanks would match a large part of the dictionary and stop being useful.
Your letters never leave the browser. The word list is a static file downloaded once from this site; the search itself runs on your device.