Anagram solver, every anagram of your letters.

An anagram solver finds the words you can make by rearranging a set of letters. A true anagram uses every letter exactly once, so LISTEN becomes SILENT. This solver puts those full anagrams at the top, then shows words that need one extra letter and the shorter words hidden inside your letters, which is what a word game or a crossword often needs. It also has a checker for two words or phrases, and it works offline once the page has loaded.

How to use the anagram solver

1. Stay on Solve an anagram and type your letters in the box. Spaces are ignored, so a phrase works too. Type ? for a blank tile that can stand for any letter.
2. Read the first group, Anagrams, every letter used. These are the answers if the puzzle wants a rearrangement of all your letters.
3. Look at One more letter if the puzzle allows an extra letter. The added letter is marked in colour.
4. Look at the shorter groups, such as 5 letters or 4 letters, for words that use only some of your letters. Each group says how many letters it leaves over.
5. Click a word to copy it. Use Copy anagrams for the full anagrams, or Copy all words for everything shown.
6. Narrow the list with Starts with, Ends with or Contains, or tick Only words that use every letter.

Worked examples

LISTEN has four anagrams in the word list: enlist, inlets, silent and tinsel. The tool shows them without the word you typed. It also finds 18 words that use all six letters plus one more, such as listens, glisten and salient, and 52 shorter words of 3 to 5 letters.

EARTH has two anagrams, hater and heart. STARE has six: aster, rates, resat, tares, taser and tears. A short word like STOP has five: opts, post, pots, spot and tops.

These counts are for the Most words setting, which is the default. Counts rise if you pick Include rare words.

Using a blank tile

A ? stands for any single letter. With one blank, the solver looks for words that use your letters plus one more of its own choosing. Letters that came from a blank are marked in colour, so you can see which letter you would need. Blanks work only in the Solve mode, and the One more letter group is hidden when you use one, because a blank already covers that case.

Check whether two words are anagrams

Switch to Check two words, type a word or phrase in each box and read the verdict. Case, spaces and punctuation are ignored, so Dormitory and Dirty room are anagrams of each other: both use the same nine letters: d, i, m, o, o, r, r, t and y. The table lists every letter with its count in each phrase and marks the ones that differ. When the answer is no, it names the letters one side has and the other lacks.

What the word list covers

The words come from SCOWL, a free spell-checker word list by Kevin Atkinson, in the 2016 release. The default list holds the 107,541 words that American, British, Canadian and Australian spellings all share, from everyday words to rare ones. It has no names, no abbreviations and none of the newest slang, so a word from a recent game or a brand will be missing. Words that differ by country, such as colour and color, are not in the default list. Tick Add spelling variants to include them. Your own game may allow words this list does not, or reject words it has, so check its dictionary for a final answer.

Tips for puzzles

• Names and phrases rarely have a single-word anagram. Use the shorter groups, or the checker to test a guess.
• Sorting the letters in alphabetical order gives every anagram the same code: listen, silent, enlist, inlets and tinsel all sort to EILNST. That is how a computer finds them.
• If a crossword clue gives you the length, pick the group with that many letters, then use Starts with or Contains for letters you already have.

For a plain list of every word in a rack, with tile points, use the word unscrambler. For a hint on a daily puzzle, try the Wordle solver.