What is an anagram solver?

An anagram solver rearranges the letters of a word or phrase to find other valid words that use exactly the same letters. Type listen and it returns silent, enlist, tinsel, and inlets, each a true anagram using every letter once.

How is an anagram different from unscrambling?

A full anagram must use every single letter you entered. Unscrambling is broader: it also returns shorter words that use only some of the letters. This solver defaults to full anagrams, with a one-tap switch to include all the shorter words hiding inside your letters.

Can it make an anagram of my name?

It will find any dictionary words that are full anagrams of your name. Names that contain rare letter combinations or that only rearrange into proper nouns may return nothing, since the built-in dictionary holds common English words rather than names and brands.

Why does a word I expected not appear?

The solver checks against a built-in common-English dictionary of about 3,000 words. Very rare words, archaic spellings, proper nouns, and tournament-only Scrabble words are outside that list, so an obscure valid anagram may not show up.

What exactly counts as an anagram?

A true anagram uses every letter of the original word once and only once, rearranged into a different word. SILENT is an anagram of LISTEN because both contain one each of E, I, L, N, S, and T. A word that drops or repeats a letter is not an anagram, it is just a related word.

Why does the solver hide the word I typed?

In full-anagram mode the tool removes a result identical to your cleaned input, because the point is to surface genuine rearrangements rather than handing your own word back to you. Every other valid full anagram is still shown.

Can it solve multi-word anagrams or phrases?

It rearranges your letters into single dictionary words, so it will not split them into a two- or three-word phrase. For a phrase anagram, solve the letters into single words here, then arrange those words by hand into the phrase you want.

Does it find anagrams of names and brands?

Only where the rearrangement spells a common English word. Proper nouns, brand names, and foreign words are not in the dictionary, so a name might rearrange into a real word it knows, or into nothing if its only anagrams are themselves names.

Is it free and private?

Yes on both counts. There is no signup and no limit, and the dictionary runs in your browser, so the words and names you test are never uploaded anywhere.

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Anagram solver

Type a word, name, or set of letters and find every anagram that rearranges all of them into a new word. Flip one switch to also surface the shorter words hiding inside your letters. Scrabble scores shown, blank-tile wildcards supported.

Enter a word, name, or set of letters

Up to 15 letters.

Type at least two letters above. In full-anagram mode you get every word that rearranges all of your letters; switch modes to also see the shorter words hiding inside them.

Anagrams are matched against a built-in common-English dictionary of about 3,000 words and scored with Scrabble tile values for reference. Proper nouns and rare words may be absent. Everything runs in your browser; nothing you type leaves your device.

About the Anagram solver

The anagram solver rearranges the letters of a word, a name, or a loose set of letters and finds the other real words that use exactly the same letters. Feed it LISTEN and it returns SILENT, ENLIST, TINSEL, and INLETS. Feed it your name and it hunts for the hidden words inside it. It is built for crossword and cryptic-clue solvers, puzzle setters, and anyone who enjoys the small satisfaction of discovering that two ordinary words are secretly the same letters in a different order.

By default it works in full-anagram mode, which means a result must use every letter you entered, no more and no fewer. That is the strict definition of an anagram and it is what separates this tool from a general unscrambler. One tap switches it to also reveal the shorter words that can be built from a subset of your letters, which is handy when a full anagram does not exist but you still want to mine the letters for ideas.

How to use it

Type a word, a name, or a set of letters into the box. Capitalisation, spaces, and punctuation are ignored.
Leave the mode on Full anagrams to see only words that rearrange all of your letters into something new.
Switch to All shorter words too when you want every word buildable from a subset, not just the exact-length anagrams.
Add a question mark as a wildcard if you want the solver to try a blank letter in place of one you do not have.
Scan the results, each shown with its Scrabble tile score, and use Copy all to lift the whole set into a puzzle grid or a notes app.

Examples

Classic single-word anagrams

Enter LISTEN in full-anagram mode and the solver returns SILENT, ENLIST, TINSEL, and INLETS. Each uses the same six letters rearranged, which is the textbook definition of an anagram and exactly what a crossword setter is testing when a clue says anagram of listen.

Mining a name for words

Type a name like MARTINA in All-shorter-words mode and the solver pulls out the readable words hiding inside it, longest first: TRAIN, then MAIN, MINT, TRIM, and RAIN, down to ANT and RAT. It is a quick way to find the words buried in a name for a puzzle, a team name, or a username.

Confirming there is no full anagram

Some words simply have no anagram. Enter RHYTHM and full-anagram mode returns nothing, which is itself useful information for a setter checking that a word is anagram-proof. Switching to the shorter-words mode then shows what little, if anything, the letters can still spell.

Frequently asked questions

What exactly counts as an anagram?: A true anagram uses every letter of the original word once and only once, rearranged into a different word. SILENT is an anagram of LISTEN because both contain one each of E, I, L, N, S, and T. A word that drops or repeats a letter is not an anagram, it is just a related word.
Why does the solver hide the word I typed?: In full-anagram mode the tool removes a result identical to your cleaned input, because the point is to surface genuine rearrangements rather than handing your own word back to you. Every other valid full anagram is still shown.
Can it solve multi-word anagrams or phrases?: It rearranges your letters into single dictionary words, so it will not split them into a two- or three-word phrase. For a phrase anagram, solve the letters into single words here, then arrange those words by hand into the phrase you want.
Does it find anagrams of names and brands?: Only where the rearrangement spells a common English word. Proper nouns, brand names, and foreign words are not in the dictionary, so a name might rearrange into a real word it knows, or into nothing if its only anagrams are themselves names.
Is it free and private?: Yes on both counts. There is no signup and no limit, and the dictionary runs in your browser, so the words and names you test are never uploaded anywhere.

Good to know

Anagrams sit at the heart of word puzzles. Cryptic crossword clues lean on them constantly, often flagged by an indicator word such as confused, broken, mixed, or shuffled sitting next to the letters to be rearranged. Recognising that pattern, then dropping the letters into an anagram solver, turns the hardest-looking part of a cryptic clue into a quick lookup. The same trick cracks the anagram round in quiz shows and the jumbled-word puzzles in newspapers.

Beyond puzzles, anagrams are a small creativity engine. Writers use them to invent character and place names that feel meaningful, brands hide tidy anagrams in their taglines, and game designers seed them as easter eggs. The limit to keep in mind is the dictionary: this tool finds anagrams that resolve to common words, so a deliberately obscure or invented anagram, the kind a human can appreciate but a word list has never heard of, is still a job for your own eye rather than the solver.