An anagram is a magic trick hiding in plain sight: the same letters, rearranged, become a completely different word. This free Anagram Solver performs the trick on demand. Type in any set of letters — a word, a name, a stubborn rack — and it returns the perfect anagrams first: every word that uses all your letters. Below them it lists every shorter word your letters can make, grouped by length, each with its Scrabble score. It runs in your browser against our 359,039-word list, so nothing you type is uploaded.
How the Anagram Solver works
The solver treats your letters as a multiset of tiles where duplicates count. A word qualifies as a perfect anagram when its letters match yours exactly — same letters, same counts, nothing left over and nothing missing. Shorter words qualify when every letter they need can be covered by your tiles, with a ? standing in for a blank tile (blank-covered letters score zero, as they do on a real board). Scores use standard Scrabble values, and results are ordered the way a player wants them: perfect anagrams first, then longer words before shorter ones, best score first inside each group.
How to use it
Type your letters in any order — the solver does not care how they arrive. Press Solve Anagrams and read from the top: the first group, labelled “Full anagrams”, is the answer most people came for. Keep scrolling for the shorter words, which are gold in tile games when the board is tight. If you are working a puzzle with a blank, add a ? and the solver will spend it wherever it helps most.
A worked example
Enter listen and the solver finds 156 words. Six of them are perfect anagrams: listen itself, silent, enlist, inlets, tinsel — and slinte, a Scots word for a slope that shows how deep the list runs. Each scores 6 points in Scrabble values. Underneath sit the five-letter words like tiles and stein, then a long tail of short plays — tin, tie, sin, lit — exactly the words that rescue a blocked board. It is no accident that listen / silent / enlist is the classic anagram trio taught in classrooms: six common letters, rearranged, keep making real words.
Anagrams beyond the game board
Players are not the only anagram hunters. Writers use anagrams to name characters (a rearranged name can hide a clue or a joke), puzzle setters build anagram clues for crosswords, teachers use them to show how English spelling carries patterns, and more than a few people have checked what their own name rearranges into. A proper name will rarely produce a perfect anagram from a general word list — names are not dictionary words — but the shorter-word groups usually surface something usable, and the ? wildcard lets you test what one extra letter would unlock.
Limitations worth knowing
Our list is a broad English word list, wider than any single game’s dictionary, so a few rare or archaic anagrams appear that official Scrabble dictionaries (CSW or NASPA) would reject. It contains no phrases and no proper names, so multi-word anagrams (“debit card” → “bad credit”) are outside its reach. Scores are tile values only — board multipliers are not included.
Anagram Solver – frequently asked questions
What counts as a perfect anagram?
A word that uses every one of your letters exactly once — same letters, same counts, in a new order. Listen and silent are perfect anagrams of each other.
Can it solve anagrams with a blank tile?
Yes. Add ? for the blank and the solver treats it as any letter, scoring words that use it with zero for that letter, exactly as Scrabble and Words With Friends do.
How many letters can I enter?
Up to 15. Longer inputs are almost always phrases, and this solver works one word at a time.
Are all the anagrams valid in Scrabble?
Most are. Our 359,039-word list is broader than the official tournament dictionaries, so an occasional obscure anagram will not be legal in tournament play — common words are always safe.
More word tools
Keep playing: Word Finder & Word Tools hub, Word Unscrambler, Wordle Solver and Jumble Solver — all free, all running on the same 359,039-word list.
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