How to find anagrams
Type a word or a jumble of letters and press Find words. The first group, Using all letters, holds the true anagrams. Below it you get every shorter word hidden in the same letters, which helps when a puzzle only asks for part of them.
A few examples to try: LISTEN gives SILENT, ENLIST, TINSEL and INLETS. DUSTY gives STUDY. SCHOOLMASTER famously gives THE CLASSROOM, but as a single word it also hides SMOOTHER, CHORALES and many more.
When an anagram finder helps
- Crosswords and cryptic clues: many clues hide an anagram of a word in the clue. Type the letters, add a ? for any you are unsure of, and filter by length.
- Word games: in board games, anagrams of your whole rack are the bingo plays. The word finder scores them for you.
- Scrambled word puzzles: each puzzle word is an anagram with one answer. The jumble solver is set up for exactly that.
- Names and writing: anagrams are a classic way to find a pen name, a team name or a playful title.
Tips for solving anagrams by hand
- Split the vowels from the consonants and try common consonant pairs first: ST, TR, CH, TH, NG.
- Look for prefixes (RE-, UN-, DE-) and suffixes (-ING, -ER, -ED, -LY) and set those letters aside.
- Write the letters in a circle. Breaking the original order makes new words easier to see.
Frequently asked questions
- What is an anagram?
- An anagram is a word made by rearranging every letter of another word exactly once. LISTEN, SILENT and ENLIST are anagrams of each other.
- How does the anagram solver work?
- It checks your letters against more than 168,000 game words. Words that use every letter are full anagrams and appear first; shorter words that use some of the letters follow, longest first.
- Can I solve anagrams with a missing letter?
- Yes. Type a question mark for each unknown letter. The solver tries every letter in that spot and highlights it in the results.
- Does it find phrases or multi-word anagrams?
- Not yet. Today it finds single words. For a phrase, try the main words one at a time.