Anagram Solver
Our Anagram Solver Tool finds the best possible words for your favorite word games. Unscramble words, find anagrams, and turn your letters into winning moves.
How to Use Anagram Solver
Anagram Solver is easy to use. Enter up to 12 letters, hit Solve, and the results will appear. Use a question mark (?) for a blank or wildcard.
This anagram word finder can help with popular letter games such as Wordscapes, Words of Wonders, Word Cookies, Word Trip, and Word Collect.
Find and Create Anagrams
Our tool can also be used as an anagram creator. Enter a word or group of letters to find full-length anagrams, then challenge your friends to solve them. The solver also finds shorter words that can be made from the same letters.
Our anagram finder checks your letters against your chosen dictionary and displays the matching words. Definitions are provided for official Scrabble words, although they may not be available for every result in the broadest dictionary.
Anagram Solver will unscramble letters and help you win every game.
What Is an Anagram?
An anagram is a word or phrase made by rearranging all the letters of another word or phrase, using each letter exactly once. RESCUE and SECURE are anagrams, for example.
Did you know that ALERTS can be rearranged into 12 other words, including ALTERS, SALTER, and SLATER? That's quite a harvest from just six letters. See all the words hidden in ALERTS, together with their definitions, on our new ALERTS anagram page.
Some puzzles ask for one exact anagram using every letter. Others ask you to make as many words as possible from a selection of letters. Anagram Solver supports both approaches by showing full-length matches alongside shorter words.
For more background and literary examples, read the Daily Writing Tips guide to anagrams.
How to Solve Anagrams
Separate the Vowels and Consonants
Start by identifying the vowels and consonants. This makes it easier to see where a vowel might sit between consonants and helps recognizable word shapes begin to emerge.
Look for Familiar Letter Groups
Search for common pairs and groups such as CH, SH, TH, QU, and ING. Keeping a promising group together reduces the number of loose letters you need to rearrange.
Check for Prefixes and Suffixes
Look for familiar beginnings and endings such as RE, UN, ED, ER, ING, and LY. Once you find a likely prefix or suffix, try arranging the remaining letters around it.
Rearrange the Letters
Move letter tiles around, write the letters in a different order, or group them alphabetically. A new arrangement can reveal a combination that was difficult to see in the original jumble.
Start with a Smaller Word
If the full anagram is not obvious, find a shorter word first and examine the letters left over. The smaller word may reveal a useful pattern, even if it is not part of the final answer.
Using Anagrams in Word Games
Anagrams appear in newspaper puzzles, classroom exercises, cryptic clues, and many online word games. The rules vary: some require every letter to be used once, while others award points for every valid word you can find.
In Scrabble-style games, the longest word is not always the best play. A shorter word can score more if it uses valuable letters, reaches a premium square, or leaves a stronger collection of tiles on your rack. Use the solver results as possible moves, then consider the board before choosing one.
Always select the dictionary that matches your game. Scrabble - English US, Scrabble - English UK, Words With Friends, and the broad Everything dictionary do not contain exactly the same words.
Why Play Anagram Word Games?
Anagram games encourage you to notice recurring letter patterns and can introduce you to unfamiliar words. When a solver result includes a definition, you can check the meaning instead of treating it as an unexplained collection of letters.
They are also easy to play in short sessions. You can solve anagrams with letter tiles, pencil and paper, or an online game without needing a lengthy setup.
A Brief History of Anagrams
Anagrams have appeared in wordplay for centuries. Merriam-Webster records the first known English use of the noun "anagram" in 1589 and traces it through New Latin to Greek roots connected with rearranging letters.
Ancient Greek and Roman writers used anagrams, and the form remained popular in medieval Europe. Writers have created anagrammatic pseudonyms, while seventeenth-century scientists sometimes used scrambled announcements to establish a discovery without revealing it immediately.
Today, anagrams remain common in literature, names, cryptic crosswords, newspaper puzzles, and digital word games. Computers can test letter combinations quickly, but choosing a clever, meaningful or amusing anagram still benefits from human judgment.
From Anagrams to Symbols
If you enjoy untangling letters and recognizing patterns, you might also enjoy identifying the visual clues encountered in everyday life. SymbolSpot is a free daily picture quiz featuring road signs, safety marks, map symbols, musical notation, and other familiar or surprisingly unfamiliar symbols.
Each challenge contains six multiple-choice questions, with a fresh selection every day. You can also explore the symbol guide to discover the meanings behind signs and pictograms from Britain, the United States, Australia, and beyond.
Solvers for Other Word Games
Not every word puzzle is an anagram. These tools can help when a game gives you pictures, a drawing, or a partially completed word.
Use our Draw With Friends Cheat to search the available letters when a drawing puzzle has you stumped.
Our Hangman Word Finder uses the word length and any letters you already know to narrow down the possible answers.
For picture puzzles, enter the supplied letters and answer length into our 4 Pics 1 Word Cheat to find possible solutions.
