Frequently Asked Questions

It is a word or phrase formed by rearranging all letters of the original. The main solver ignores spaces, punctuation, and capitalization, then requires every remaining letter to be used exactly once.

A shorter word does not use every letter, so it is not an exact anagram. Use Word Finder when you want any word that can be made from some or all of your letters.

Word Finder patterns use ? for exactly one unknown character. Rack Word Finder accepts ? or * as a blank tile that can stand for one missing letter and contributes zero rack points.

Common English is a smaller download focused on familiar spellings. Extended English is broader and can include uncommon, regional, historical, or technical forms. Neither mode guarantees acceptance in a particular game.

No. It uses an open English spelling list and Scrabble-style English letter values, not a licensed tournament lexicon. Scores are rack-letter totals only and exclude the board, premiums, cross-words, and bingo bonuses.

Yes. The multi-word tool finds exact two- or three-word combinations. To keep difficult searches responsive, it has result, time, and search-state limits and clearly reports when a search stops at one of those limits.

Spelling lists differ. Try Extended English, but remember that proper nouns, phrases, abbreviations, inflections, and game-specific entries vary between dictionaries.

The solver downloads a static dictionary and runs searches in a background browser worker. There is no application search API receiving your input. Optional Google Analytics is loaded only after consent; see the Privacy Policy for details.

The first visit needs a connection to load the site and selected dictionary. Your browser may cache those files, but this version is not packaged as a guaranteed offline application.