Anagram Solver
A jumble of letters is a word waiting to happen. Type your letters below and this solver will unscramble them into every English word hidden inside — perfect anagrams first, then all the shorter words, longest first.
How to use the anagram solver
- Type your letters (2 to 15 of them) into the box — order does not matter.
- Press "Solve".
- Read the full anagrams first: these use every letter exactly once.
- Scroll into the shorter words for extra plays that use only some of your letters.
Anagrams reward patience. If the full-length section is empty, the shorter words still give you strong moves in tile games, and in anagram puzzles they often reveal a chunk of the answer. Try removing a stubborn letter like Q or X and solving the rest — the leftover word plus that letter frequently clicks into place. Classic example: type "listen" and you will find "silent" and "enlist" waiting at the top.
How unscrambling works
To unscramble words, the solver does not try every possible arrangement of your letters one by one — with 10 letters that would mean millions of orders to check. Instead it uses a shortcut. Every word in its dictionary of 125,000+ words has been sorted into alphabetical order in advance, so LISTEN, SILENT and ENLIST are all stored under the same sorted string: E-I-L-N-S-T. When you type your letters, the solver sorts them the same way and simply looks up every word filed under that string. Those are your full anagrams. It then repeats the trick with smaller selections of your letters — dropping one, then two — to unscramble words of every length. Sorting turns a puzzle with millions of possibilities into one instant lookup, which is why the answers appear before you have finished typing.
How to unscramble words by hand
A solver is fast, but the same ideas work in your head — and in many games, solving by hand is half the fun. Here are the techniques that make the biggest difference:
1. Sort your letters and separate the vowels
Write the letters out in alphabetical order, vowels first or vowels apart. Count the balance: a set with two vowels and five consonants will usually alternate sounds, while a set with only one vowel forces that vowel into the middle of consonant clusters. Knowing the shape of the word narrows the search before you place a single letter.
2. Peel off prefixes and suffixes
Look for pieces English reuses constantly: UN-, RE-, PRE- and DIS- at the start; -ING, -ED, -ER, -EST and -TION at the end. If your letters can form one of these, set it aside and solve what is left — a seven-letter jumble often shrinks to a friendly four-letter problem.
3. Hunt for letter chunks
Some letters travel in pairs: CH, SH, TH, WH, PH, QU and CK. Treat each pair as a single building block and you halve the pieces you are juggling. If you see a Q, find its U straight away; if you see C and H, try them together before you try them apart.
4. Shuffle the letters physically
Write the letters in a circle or slide tiles around instead of staring at one fixed line. Your brain keeps re-reading the same wrong order; moving letters breaks the pattern and lets new words surface. For the full step-by-step method, with a worked example, read our guide on how to unscramble words.
Unscrambling 7-letter anagrams
Seven letters deserve a section of their own. In Scrabble and Words With Friends you hold exactly seven tiles, and playing all seven in a single turn — a "bingo" — earns a 50-point bonus on top of the word's score. That makes a 7-letter unscramble the single most valuable answer a rack can hide, and this solver finds them all: type your seven tiles and the full anagrams at the top of the results are your bingo plays. If you also know some letters already on the board, or want to filter by positions and letters a 7-letter word must contain, use the dedicated 7-Letter Word Finder — it is built purely for bingo-length words and crossword answers of exactly seven letters.
Short words worth learning
The solver finds the words; knowing the short ones by heart wins the games in between. Two lists cover the whole foundation: the complete list of 2-letter Scrabble words — all 127 of them in CSW24, each with its meaning and points — and the complete list of 3-letter Scrabble words, all 1,351 of them, with the high-value Q, J, Z and X words explained. Learn those, and most racks will offer you a play before you even reach for this page.