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Free word unscrambler: enter up to 16 jumbled letters to find the words and anagrams they spell. Filters for length and for first, last and included letters. Instant and private in your browser.
Last updated 18 October 2026
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Type up to 16 letters and the tool walks through its whole word list, keeping every entry that uses none of your letters more often than you typed it. Results are grouped by length, longest first, and sorted alphabetically inside each group. Click a word to copy it.
Upper and lower case are treated the same. Anything that is not a plain letter from a to z is removed before the search: spaces, digits, punctuation and accents. So c a t searches for cat, and café searches for caf.
Measured, the letters rtaec give 81 results: 11 of five letters (including crate, react and trace), 20 of four, 30 of three and 20 of two. How many of those you would accept as words depends on the list, which is the most important thing to understand about this tool.
The list is the public-domain dwyl English word list, every entry of 2 to 12 letters. It is one file of 3.0 MB, downloaded the first time you use the tool (about 0.9 MB after compression) and cached by your browser for seven days. The Crossword Solver uses the same file.
It is not a game dictionary, and it includes abbreviations and names. Of the 20 two-letter results for rtaec, Merriam-Webster's official Scrabble word checker accepts only 8: ae, ar, at, er, et, re, ta and te. The other 12, such as ct, rc and tr, are abbreviations. The three-letter results include ctr, rct and rte for the same reason. Names come through too: london, texas and stephanie are all in the list.
It also misses words a game would accept. qi is a playable Scrabble word and is not in the list, while the rarer zax and cwm are.
The list is not filtered for offensive words. We checked ten common swear words and all ten are present, so a rack of ordinary letters can return one. Worth knowing before a classroom uses it.
Counted by length, the list holds 51,627 words of eight letters, 53,402 of nine, 45,872 of ten, 37,539 of eleven and 29,124 of twelve. The source list has another 54,979 longer words, which are left out, so a rack of 13 to 16 letters returns words of at most 12.
Until 18 October 2026 this tool used a different list that held only 2,087 words of 9 to 12 letters, so long anagrams were mostly impossible. The word unscramble itself was missing; it is found now.
The search stops once it has found more than 2,500 matches, and the page gives no sign that it stopped. Because the list is in alphabetical order, the words that survive are the ones early in the alphabet.
etaoinshrdlucmfw returned 2,501 words, and every one began with a, b or c. The last word reached was cledonism. Asked one exact length at a time, the same letters produced at least 14,364 words, and the five, six and seven letter searches each hit the limit again.abcdefghijklmnop returned 2,501 words, all beginning with a to g. Length by length it has 4,868.If the count reads exactly 2,501, the list has been cut. Set an exact length, or a first letter, until the count falls below that.
rtaec, starting with x finds nothing, and starting with tr finds trace, trac, tra and tr.batle, must contain ab gave 34 results, and 22 of them, such as bleat and bale, do not have ab together. With balloet, must contain ll gave 122 results and 90 have only one l.a to p and drops the rest.? or * is removed like any other symbol, so ca? gives exactly what ca gives. Merriam-Webster's Scrabble finder accepts up to two ? wildcards if you need them.For Wordle, or any puzzle where you know letters by position, the Crossword Solver fits better. To count the letters in a longer text, use Word Counter.
Every behaviour and every value on this page was measured against this tool as it is published, in a browser, on 18 October 2026.
Because the list includes abbreviations and names alongside ordinary words. Of the 20 two-letter results for rtaec, Merriam-Webster's Scrabble checker accepts 8; the others, such as ct and tr, are abbreviations. Names such as london and texas are in the list too.
No. A ? or * is removed before the search, so it neither counts as a letter nor stands for one. Leave the blank out and try the letters you have, or use a finder that supports wildcards.
The list stops at 12 letters, so nothing longer can ever be returned, however many letters you type. Up to 12 it is broad: over 29,000 words of twelve letters. If a shorter word is missing, it may be a game word the list does not hold, such as qi.
No. The search stops after 2,500 matches without saying so, and because the list is alphabetical the words you see are from the start of the alphabet. Set an exact length or a first letter until the count drops below 2,501.
No. It is a general English word list with abbreviations and names in it, and it is missing some playable words such as qi. Check a word in the game's own dictionary before you rely on it in a match.
No. Each letter only has to appear somewhere in the word, in any order, and a doubled letter is not counted twice. Must contain ll with balloet still returned 92 words with a single l.
Not well. It only builds words from the letters you type, and the box takes 16 of them, so you cannot leave positions unknown. The Crossword Solver takes green letters by position and grey letters to exclude, which is what Wordle needs.
No. The word list downloads once, about 0.9 MB after compression, and is cached for seven days. Every search after that runs in your browser and nothing you type is uploaded.