Anagram Solver
Enter up to 15 letters. We find every exact anagram, plus the shorter words hiding inside, ranked by how common each word is.
How to use this anagram solver
Type any letters, in any order, and press Solve. The solver first looks for exact anagrams: real words that use every one of your letters exactly once. With the shorter-words option on, it also finds every smaller word you can build from a subset of your letters, grouped by length.
Words are ranked by a 30-tier frequency model, so everyday words surface first and dictionary curiosities stay behind the All words filter. Click any word to see its definition and hear it pronounced.
What is an anagram?
An anagram rearranges all the letters of a word or phrase into a new one: LISTEN becomes SILENT, and TRIANGLE becomes INTEGRAL and RELATING. Anagrams have a long history in word play, from Victorian parlor games to crossword clue conventions, where words like "scrambled", "confused", or "mixed" quietly signal an anagram.
Not every letter set has an exact anagram, which is why this tool also lists the shorter words inside your letters. That mode doubles as a helper for games where partial words count.
What people use this for
- Cracking anagram clues in cryptic and quick crosswords.
- Word games built on letter racks and letter wheels, where length and rarity both matter.
- Checking whether a name or phrase hides a clean one-word anagram.
- Vocabulary practice: seeing every word inside a letter set is a fast way to meet new words.
For a rack-and-board experience built around this idea, our companion site Word Unscrambler adds blank tiles and Scrabble-style scoring.
Anagram Solver FAQ
- Why did my letters return no exact anagram?
- Most random letter sets have none: an exact anagram needs a real word with precisely the same letter counts. Keep the shorter-words option on and you will still see everything your letters can make.
- Does letter order or capitalization matter?
- No. LISTEN, listen, and NETSIL all give identical results. Only which letters you enter, and how many times each appears, affects the answer.
- How many letters can I enter?
- Up to 15. Repeated letters are fine and each occurrence counts: BANANA only appears as an exact anagram if you enter three As, two Ns, and one B.
- Where do the words come from?
- The same frequency-ranked dictionary that powers our Wordle solver and word lists, covering words from 2 to 15 letters and updated as readers report missing entries.