Unscramble letters into words

What it finds

The unscrambler checks every word in its list against your letters and keeps those it can spell, using each letter only as many times as you typed it. listen gives 90 words: six of six letters (enlist, inlets, listen, silent, tinsel and elints), then 16 of five letters, 32 of four, and so on down to two.

• Blank tiles. A ? can be any letter; type two for two blanks. r?ad finds bard, card, dare, road and 136 others.
• Filters look at the finished words. To play through a letter already on the board, add it to your letters and put it in Contains.
• Long lists show the first 1,500 words; a length or a filter narrows them down.

Click any word to copy it. The arrow beside it opens its meaning in the thesaurus, handy when the list offers a word you have never seen.

The word list, and why game dictionaries differ

The words come from ENABLE, a public-domain list of 172,820 English words compiled for word games, from two letters up to 28. It includes plurals, verb forms and plenty of rare words, but no names, abbreviations or words with hyphens or apostrophes.

Each game has its own official dictionary, and they do not agree with each other or with ENABLE: some short words are allowed in one and not another, and newer words reach them at different times. So treat a word found here as very likely playable, and check a doubtful one in the game itself before you bet the game on it.

Letter values

The scores are the letters' face values, the blank counting nothing, before any double or triple squares on the board.

Use the values to compare words that fit the same spot. A four-letter word with a J can outscore a six-letter word made of one-point letters, especially on a triple letter square.

A Wordle helper too

The Wordle tab works from the colors the game gave you. Type each guess and press Add, then click its letters until they match the board: grey for a letter that is not in the word, yellow for one that is in another place, green for one in the right place. Clicking a letter again moves it to the next color.

It then lists the five-letter words that still fit, repeated letters included: if one E in your guess was yellow and the other grey, the answer has exactly one E. Better-known words come first, and among them those with the most common of the remaining letters, so your next guess rules out as many words as possible.