Word unscrambler — every word you can build from your letters
Type your jumbled letters and get back every valid English word they can spell, grouped longest first and scored the way Scrabble scores them. Blank tiles, starts-with, ends-with and contains filters included.
- Your letters never leave this page
- 168,551 words, public-domain list
Type your letters above. The word list is fetched the moment you use that box, and not before.
How it works
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Type the letters you have
Up to 15 of them, in any order, upper or lower case. Spaces and commas between tiles are fine. Clicking into the box is what fetches the word list — once, from this site, and then it stays in your browser cache. Your letters themselves are never part of a request.
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Use ? for a blank tile
A question mark stands for any letter, exactly like the two blanks in a Scrabble set — and two is the most you can add, for the same reason. Words that lean on a blank are marked, because a blank always scores zero and that changes which play is actually worth making.
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Narrow it down
Starts with, ends with and contains cut a list of 900 words down to the handful that fit the gap on the board. This is also what makes the tool useful for crosswords: you usually know a letter or two and their position.
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Read the score, not just the word
Every result carries its tile score, and results within each length are ordered by that score rather than alphabetically. The longest word is rarely the best play — a five-letter word holding a J or an X often beats a seven-letter word made of vowels.
Scrabble letter values
These are the tile values every result on this page is scored with. They are the same in Scrabble and Words With Friends for most letters, but not all — Words With Friends scores some consonants differently and uses a different board, so use these as the Scrabble numbers.
| Points | Letters | How many |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A, E, I, O, U, L, N, S, T, R | 68 of the 100 tiles |
| 2 | D, G | 4 D, 3 G |
| 3 | B, C, M, P | 2 each |
| 4 | F, H, V, W, Y | 2 each |
| 5 | K | 1 |
| 8 | J, X | 1 each |
| 10 | Q, Z | 1 each |
| 0 | Blank | 2 — any letter, always worth nothing |
Frequently asked questions
Which dictionary does this use?
ENABLE — the Enhanced North American Benchmark Lexicon, released into the public domain by Alan Beale and M. Cooper in 1997. It is the free word list most open-source word games are built on, and it is the list an early version of Words With Friends used. This tool serves the 168,551 entries between 2 and 15 letters long, unmodified: no words added, none removed beyond that length filter. You can open the file yourself at /word-list-enable1.txt.
Why do the results differ from the official Scrabble dictionary?
Because the official ones cannot legally be published here. TWL (North America) and CSW/Collins (everywhere else) are copyrighted commercial products, and a site that redistributes them is redistributing someone else’s book. ENABLE is public domain, which is why it is what free tools use. The lists overlap heavily but they are not the same list, and a tournament word judge is the only thing that settles a real game.
So which words will be missing?
The clearest gaps are short and well known: QI, ZA, KI, OI, DA, FE and GI are all valid in current tournament play and none of them are in ENABLE, which has 96 two-letter words where TWL has around 100. ENABLE also predates the internet in the way that matters here — EMAIL, BLOG, WEBSITE, PODCAST, SELFIE, EMOJI and HASHTAG are all absent. It runs the other way too: ENABLE keeps some entries later editions dropped. If a word matters for a real game, check it against whichever list your game uses.
How do I use a blank tile?
Type a question mark for each one — RETAIN? finds every word you could build with those six letters plus any seventh. You can add two at most, because a Scrabble set contains exactly two blanks. Underscore and asterisk work as well if those are easier to type on your keyboard.
How is the score worked out?
It adds up the standard English tile values (A is 1, Q and Z are 10, and so on), and a letter covered by a blank contributes zero. What it deliberately does not do is guess at your board: double and triple letter and word squares, and the 50-point bonus for playing all seven tiles, all depend on where the word lands. A list of letters cannot tell us that, so the number here is the floor rather than a prediction.
Are my letters sent to a server?
No. The word list is a plain file downloaded from this site to your browser, and the searching happens inside this page — the letters you type are never part of a request. There is no account, no history, and nothing about your search is written to your browser storage either.
Why does the first search take a moment?
The word list is a real dictionary, and it has to arrive before anything can be searched: it is about 230 KB compressed, which is a second or two on a phone. It is fetched once, the moment you first click into the letters box, and your browser caches it afterwards. Nothing is downloaded at all if you only read this page — which is why the tool is not simply built into it. After that, each search takes a few milliseconds, and the timing is printed next to the result count so you can see it.
Can I use this for Wordle?
Partly. Set the length filter to 5 and use "contains" for a letter you know is in the word but in the wrong place, and "starts with" or "ends with" once you have pinned one down. What this tool cannot do is exclude letters, or place a known letter in the middle — Wordle is a positional puzzle and this is an anagram solver. It is a much better fit for crosswords, Scrabble, Words With Friends and anagram puzzles.
Why is the input limited to 15 letters?
Fifteen is the width of a Scrabble board, so it is the longest word that can physically be played, and it is where the word list stops. ENABLE does contain longer entries — the longest is 28 letters — but nothing in that range is playable, and dropping them made the download meaningfully smaller for everyone.
Are all these words actually playable?
Every word returned can be spelled from the letters you gave, using each tile no more than once. Whether it can be played is a different question: a real turn has to connect to what is already on the board, and every cross-word it forms has to be valid too. Treat the list as what your rack can spell, not as a list of legal moves.