Anagram Solver

Rearrange your letters into real words — using all of them, across one word or several.

The dictionary (570 KB) downloads the first time you type, then works offline. Your letters are never uploaded.

Exact anagrams

Dictionary: the public-domain ENABLE word list (172,823 words), compiled by Alan Beale and M. Cooper. Source and licence. This is not the TWL or Collins tournament list.

🔒 Runs entirely in your browser — nothing you type is uploaded or stored on a server.

An anagram uses every letter, exactly once. Type listen and you get silent, tinsel, enlist, inlets — not the 70 shorter words you could also spell from those letters. That distinction is the whole difference between this page and a jumble solver, and it is why both exist.

Also on Txtset: find every word makeable from part of your letters · score those letters as tiles.

The part worth having is multi-word anagrams: rearranging a name or a phrase into two or three real words. That is a genuinely harder search than looking up one key, and it is where a name anagram actually comes from. Results are seeded from the 25,000 most common English words, so what comes back reads as English instead of a wall of obscure two-letter pairs, and the search stops after 400 milliseconds and tells you it stopped rather than freezing the page.

Case, spaces and punctuation are ignored, so Clint Eastwood and clinteastwood are the same query. The letters you actually gave it are echoed back above the results — a typo in a fourteen-letter name is otherwise invisible, and you would just conclude there were no anagrams.

The dictionary is ENABLE, 172,823 public-domain words, and it downloads once (570 KB) the first time you type. After that it is cached and the page works offline. Your letters are never uploaded — the search runs in this tab.

How to use

  1. Type letters, a word, a name or a phrase.
  2. Check the letter bag shown above the results — that is exactly what is being searched.
  3. Read the exact anagrams: every word that uses all your letters.
  4. Tick multi-word anagrams for phrases, and choose two or three words.
  5. Copy the results when you find the one you want.

Examples

listen
→ silent, tinsel, enlist, inlets
dormitory
has no single-word anagram, but multi-word search finds dirty room.
A name
Clint Eastwood → old west action, found by the multi-word search rather than a lookup.

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between this and the Word Unscrambler?
An anagram uses every letter you give it. The Word Unscrambler finds every word makeable from any subset, which is what you want for a jumble or a tile rack — listen gives 4 anagrams there but around 70 words. Use this page for anagrams of names and phrases, that one for puzzles.
How does multi-word anagram search work?
Your letters become a count of each letter. The search takes a candidate word, subtracts its letters, and looks up whatever is left as a single key — so finding the second word is one lookup rather than another pass over the dictionary. Three-word search repeats that a level deeper, which is why it is bounded by a time budget.
Why does it say “showing the first N”?
Because a long phrase has an enormous number of multi-word rearrangements, and most are not worth reading. The search stops after 400 milliseconds and tells you it stopped, rather than locking the page up pretending to be thorough.
Which dictionary is used?
ENABLE — the Enhanced North American Benchmark Lexicon, 172,823 words, in the public domain. It is not the TWL or Collins tournament list, so a word may be here and not valid in tournament play, or the reverse. Source and licence.
Is my input sent to a server?
No. The dictionary is downloaded once and everything after that — the lookup, the multi-word search — happens in this tab. Your letters, names and phrases never leave your device.
Why is there a letter limit?
Anagram search is capped at 18 letters. Past that the number of multi-word combinations grows faster than the results become useful, and an honest cap beats a page that appears to hang.

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