Word unscrambler
An unscrambler checks your letters against a dictionary and returns every word that can be spelled from them. Words using all the letters are exact anagrams and are listed first; shorter words follow, grouped by length. The letters LISTEN, for instance, also spell SILENT, ENLIST and TINSEL.
How to unscramble letters
The dictionary is loaded only when you start typing, and only the word lengths your rack can reach; a seven-letter rack pulls about 88 KB rather than the whole list. It is Webster’s Second International, whose copyright lapsed long ago, so it is generous with archaic words and is not a tournament word list. If you are playing competitively, check anything unfamiliar against your game’s own dictionary.
What people use it for
- Finding the longest word a Scrabble rack will make
- Getting past a word game level that has been stuck for days
- Solving a newspaper jumble where the letters arrive out of order
- Finding something shorter to play when nothing uses all seven tiles
- Checking whether a name or a phrase has an anagram worth using
Questions
Twelve, which is the longest word length the dictionary holds. Type more and it says so rather than quietly searching the first twelve, since a rack longer than the longest word can have no exact anagram at all.
It acts as a blank tile and matches any one letter. Two blanks work as well, though the list gets long.
No. Tournament word lists are copyrighted. This uses a public-domain dictionary, so it includes words no tournament would accept and misses some that they do.
The dictionary downloads once, then stays cached. Later searches are instant, and nothing you type is ever sent with the request.