Anagram Solver
Type your letters and see every word they can make, longest words first.
Anagram Solver is a free online tool that takes the letters you type and lists the words you can make from them, starting with every word that uses all of the letters. It works as an anagram finder and an anagram maker for single words, and you can use ? as a blank tile for any one letter. The tool runs in your browser with no sign-up, and nothing you type is sent anywhere. The word list loads the first time you use the tool. It is useful for checking an anagram you have found by hand, for finding words for a puzzle, or for seeing how many words a set of letters can form.
How to use the Anagram Solver
- Type your letters into the box. It takes up to 15 characters and needs at least 2. Use ? for a blank tile, which can stand for any one letter. Spaces are ignored, so “the eyes” and “theeyes” give the same result.
- Open the Min Word Length drop-down and choose 2, 3, 4 or 5 letters. The default is 3. A lower number shows more short words; a higher number shows only longer ones.
- Press Find Words, or press Enter.
- Read the first group, labelled “Uses all N letters”. These are the true anagrams, the words that use every letter you typed.
- Scroll down to the shorter groups, which are sorted longest first. Inside each group the most common words come first. A group of shorter words shows the first 120 words, followed by “…” if there are more.
Press Try an Example to fill in listen and see what a full set of results looks like. Within every group the everyday words come before the rare ones, so the word you want is usually near the front. If you have a blank tile, the solver tries every letter in its place, so one ? can make the list much longer. Printing is not supported.
What is an anagram? Anagram meaning: what does anagram mean?
An anagram is a word or phrase made by rearranging all the letters of another word or phrase, using each letter exactly once. The anagram meaning is simple: you get a new word from the same letters, and you cannot add or drop any.
For example, listen and silent are anagrams of each other, because both contain the same six letters in a different order.
Anagram definition and examples
Take the word listen. Its letters can also form enlist and tinsel, and each one uses l, i, s, t, e and n exactly once. Spelling is what counts, so the words only need to match letter for letter, not sound for sound.
Anagram examples with answers
Here are some classic anagrams you can check by counting letters:
- stop can be rearranged into pots, spot, tops, post and opts.
- earth can be rearranged into heart and hater.
- the eyes can be rearranged into they see.
- astronomer can be rearranged into moon starer.
- dormitory can be rearranged into dirty room.
The last three pairs show that phrases can be anagrams too. This tool lists single words only, so type the letters of a phrase without worrying about spaces and look for the words it can form.
What are the anagram rules?
An anagram follows four rules. Every letter of the original must be used exactly once, and no new letters can be added.
- Spelling matters, not sound.
- Capitals, spaces and punctuation are ignored.
- The result may be one word or several.
How to solve anagrams quickly
The fastest way to solve an anagram by hand is to break the letters into small patterns and test them. Write the letters in a circle, then group common pairs and endings such as TH, CH, -ING, -ED and -ER. Put the vowels aside and try each consonant as the first letter. When the letter set is long, a word list tool can do the testing for you.
How to make anagrams
To make an anagram by hand, start with the original letters and move them into new orders until you have a word that uses each one exactly once. Count the letters in your answer against the original to check that none are missing or extra. Keep rearranging until you find a word that makes sense, or use the solver to list every real word the letters can form.
Frequently asked questions
Does the anagram finder work with phrases?
No. The solver finds single words only and does not combine words into a phrase. For two-word answers, use the Word Unscrambler.
Can I use it with a blank tile?
Yes. A ? stands for any one letter, so rai?n gives 153 words, and 15 of them use all five letters, including brain, train, rains, grain and drain.
Why do some results look like odd or rare words?
The word list has 52,649 English words, and it includes some obscure ones, so a letter set can return words such as arion or indra. Entries with no vowel (abbreviations such as cd) and a short list of offensive words are removed, and common words are listed first in each group.
What does “Uses all N letters” mean?
It means the word uses every letter you typed, with none left over. These true anagrams are always listed in the first group.
Why does a long word sometimes show only one result?
Some letter sets have very few anagrams. Dormitory returns only dormitory itself as a word that uses all nine letters, and astronomer returns only astronomer for all ten.
Is this a Scrabble helper?
It lists words that can be made from your letters, but its word list is not an official tournament dictionary. Scrabble is a trademarked game, and this tool is an independent helper.
Does it give definitions or work in other languages?
No. Definitions, other languages, Scrabble scores and printing are not supported.
Are the results sorted?
Yes. Longer words come first, and inside each length the most common words come first, then the rest alphabetically. Words that use all your letters are in the first group.
Related tools
- Word Unscrambler: use it when you want two-word answers from a set of letters.
- Word Finder: use it to find words that match a pattern of known letters.
- Text Twist Solver: use it to find the words hidden in a set of scrambled letters.
- Word Wheel Solver: use it to list words built from a wheel of letters.
- Spelling Bee Solver: use it to find words from a honeycomb of seven letters.
- Crossword Solver: use it to fill a gap in a crossword grid.
- Boggle Solver: use it to find words in a grid of letter dice.
- Hangman: use it to play a word-guessing game.
What is an anagram?
An anagram is a word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of a different word or phrase, typically using all the original letters exactly once. For example, the word anagram itself can be rearranged into the phrase "nag a ram"; which is an Easter egg suggestion in Google after searching for the word "anagram".
The original word or phrase is known as the subject of the anagram. Any word or phrase that exactly reproduces the letters in another order is an anagram. Someone who creates anagrams may be called an "anagrammatist", and the goal of a serious or skilled anagrammatist is to produce anagrams that reflect or comment on their subject.
Examples
Anagrams may be created as a commentary on the subject. They may be a parody, a criticism or satire. For example:
"Church of Scientology" = "rich-chosen goofy cult"
"McDonald's restaurants" = "Uncle Sam's standard rot"
An anagram may also be a synonym of the original word or phrase. For example:
An anagram that has a meaning opposed to that of the original word or phrase is called an "antigram". For example:
Applications
While anagramming is certainly a recreation first, there are ways in which anagrams are put to use, and these can be more serious, or at least not quite frivolous and formless. For example, psychologists use anagram-oriented tests, often called "anagram solution tasks", to assess the implicit memory of young adults and adults alike.
Natural philosophers (astronomers and others) of the 17th century transposed their discoveries into Latin anagrams, to establish their priority. In this way they laid claim to new discoveries before their results were ready for publication.
Galileo used for Altissimum planetam tergeminum observavi (Latin: I have observed the most distant planet to have a triple form) for discovering the rings of Saturn in 1610. Galileo announced his discovery that Venus had phases like the Moon in the form Haec immatura a me iam frustra leguntur oy (Latin: These immature ones have already been read in vain by me -oy), that is, when rearranged, Cynthiae figuras aemulatur Mater Amorum (Latin: The Mother of Loves [= Venus] imitates the figures of Cynthia [= the moon]). In both cases, Johannes Kepler had solved the anagrams incorrectly, assuming they were talking about the Moons of Mars (Salve, umbistineum geminatum Martia proles) and a red spot on Jupiter (Macula rufa in Jove est gyratur mathem), respectively. By coincidence, he turned out to be right about the actual objects existing.
In 1656, Christiaan Huygens, using a better telescope than those available to Galileo, figured that Galileo's earlier observations of Saturn actually meant it had a ring (Galileo's tools were only sufficient to see it as bumps) and, like Galileo, had published an anagram,. Upon confirming his observations, three years later he revealed it to mean Annulo cingitur, tenui, plano, nusquam coherente, ad eclipticam inclinato (Latin: It [Saturn] is surrounded by a thin, flat, ring, nowhere touching, inclined to the ecliptic).
When Robert Hooke discovered Hooke's law in 1660, he first published it in anagram form,, for ut tensio, sic vis (Latin: as the extension, so the force).
Methods of construction
Sometimes, it is possible to "see" anagrams in words, unaided by tools, though the more letters involved the more difficult this becomes. The difficulty is that for a word of different letters, there are (factorial of ) different permutations and so different anagrams of the word. Anagram dictionaries can also be used. Computer programs, known as "anagram search", "anagram servers", and "anagram solvers", among other names, offer a much faster route to creating anagrams, and a large number of these programs are available on the Internet. Some programs use the Anatree algorithm to compute anagrams efficiently.
The program or server carries out an exhaustive search of a database of words, to produce a list containing every possible combination of words or phrases from the input word or phrase using a jumble algorithm. Some programs (such as Lexpert) restrict to one-word answers. Many anagram servers (for example, The Words Oracle) can control the search results, by excluding or including certain words, limiting the number or length of words in each anagram, or limiting the number of results. Anagram solvers are often banned from online anagram games. The disadvantage of computer anagram solvers, especially when applied to multi-word anagrams, is their poor understanding of the meaning of the words they are manipulating. They usually cannot filter out meaningful or appropriate anagrams from large numbers of nonsensical word combinations. Some servers attempt to improve on this using statistical techniques that try to combine only words that appear together often. This approach provides only limited success since it fails to recognize ironic and humorous combinations.
Some anagrammatists indicate the method they used. Anagrams constructed without the aid of a computer are noted as having been done "manually" or "by hand"; those made by utilizing a computer may be noted "by machine" or "by computer", or may indicate the name of the computer program (using Anagram Genius).
There are also a few "natural" instances: English words unconsciously created by switching letters around. The French chaise longue ("long chair") became the American "chaise lounge" by metathesis (transposition of letters and/or sounds). It has also been speculated that the English "curd" comes from the Latin crudus ("raw"). Similarly, the ancient English word for bird was "brid".
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