Anagram solver
Type a word to see every word made of exactly the same letters.
Your letters in any order. Type ? for a blank tile.
Type at least two characters.
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How it works
An anagram is a word formed by rearranging the letters of another word, such as listen and silent. The tool finds every word in the list that uses precisely your letters, no more and no fewer.
Tick “Also show shorter words” to include words that use only some of the letters.
How the tool finds anagrams
The tool does not try every arrangement of the letters. Ten letters can be arranged in 3,628,800 ways, while the English list has 25,627 ten-letter words. Instead it loads the list of words with exactly as many letters as you typed and checks each one to see whether it uses every letter as many times as you did.
What you type is lowercased, and digits, spaces and punctuation are dropped. A question mark, asterisk, full stop or underscore counts as any letter. The English list contains only the letters a to z, so the é in café is dropped, a note under the field says so, and the tool searches for anagrams of caf. The word you typed is never shown among the results, not even when shorter words are included.
Example
Listen gives five anagrams from the English list: elints, enlist, inlets, silent and tinsel. Stare gives seven: aster, rates, resat, tares, taser, tears and treas. Some are rare words, because the list is built for word games rather than everyday use. Ticking the box for shorter words raises listen to 112 words.
A question mark widens the search: st?r looks for every four-letter word that contains s, t and r plus any one other letter.
The word itself
The Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary defines an anagram as a word or phrase made by arranging the letters of another word or phrase in a different order, with Elvis and lives as its example. It dates the word to the late 16th century, from French or modern Latin, built on the Greek ana-, back or anew, and gramma, letter.
Sources
- wordlist_swedish
- SALDO (Språkbanken Text)
- ENABLE
- English Speller Database (SCOWL)
- Norsk ordbank (Språkrådet, UiB)
- Det Centrale Ordregister
- german-wordlist
- OpenTaal
- paroleitaliane
- Morphalou 3.1 (ATILF)
- LibreOffice pt_BR (VERO)
- SJP.PL (LibreOffice pl_PL)
- Rospell (LibreOffice ro)
- Wiktionary (kaikki.org)
- Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary – anagram