What is an anagram?
An anagram is a word made by putting all the letters of another word in a new order. Each letter is used exactly once. LISTEN and SILENT are anagrams. So are EARTH and HEART, and DUSTY and STUDY.
This solver shows the full anagrams first: the words that use every letter you typed. Below them it lists the shorter words that you can make from some of the letters, longest first.
How to use it
Type a word, or a group of letters in any order, and press Find anagrams. The letters you type show as tiles, so you can check them before you search. Upper and lower case make no difference, and spaces and punctuation are removed.
If you know most of the letters but not all, type a question mark for each unknown letter. ANGE? finds ANGEL, ANGER, RANGE and other five-letter words that contain A, N, G and E.
Anagram examples
Some letter groups have many anagrams. These are good for word puzzles and classroom games:
- AEST: ates, east, eats, etas, sate, seat, seta, teas
- OPST: opts, post, pots, spot, stop, tops
- EILNST: elints, enlist, inlets, listen, silent, tinsel
- AELST: least, setal, slate, stale, steal, stela, taels, tales, teals, tesla
Where anagrams help
Crosswords and cryptic clues
Cryptic crosswords often hide an anagram in the clue. Words such as "mixed", "broken" or "badly" signal that you must rearrange a group of letters. Type that group here to see which words it can form.
Word games
In games that give you a fixed set of letters, a full anagram is often the highest-scoring answer. The shorter words below it help you find more answers from the same letters.
Names and wordplay
Writers use anagrams to make pen names and puzzle answers. The solver uses a list of English words only, so it does not find names or phrases with more than one word.
Which words does it know?
The solver uses the ENABLE list of about 173,000 English words. It has plurals and verb forms, but no proper nouns, abbreviations or words with hyphens. Rare words such as ELINTS and STELA are in the list because word games accept them.