Word Gallery Find Words From Letters

Type the letters you have. Get back every word you can spell from them, with the words people actually use listed first. 315,007 words, searched in your browser—nothing you type is sent anywhere.

Everyday words first

Most word finders hand you one long alphabetical list, so serta and strae sit above stare with nothing to tell them apart. This one merges three dictionaries and tags every word by how familiar it actually is:

• 8,357 everyday words — ranked by how often they turn up in ordinary English, and always shown first.
• 170,810 word-game words — valid in Scrabble and Words With Friends, even if you would never say them aloud.
• 135,840 archaic and rare — from Webster's 1913, dimmed and labelled so you do not stake a turn on one.

What it does

Give it a set of letters and it returns every word that can be built from them, using each letter no more than the number of times you supplied it. You do not have to use them all, so a seven-letter rack turns up the three- and four-letter plays as well as the long shots. Each word shows its Scrabble score, with the Words With Friends score on hover.

Two ways to search

The same letters can mean two different things, so you choose which:

• Letters I have — a bag of tiles. Order does not matter, and ? is a blank tile standing in for any letter, exactly as in Scrabble. RETINA? means six tiles and a blank.
• Pattern — a template. Position matters, ? is one unknown letter and * is any run of them. C?T gives cat, cot and cut; ST* gives everything starting with ST.

Results update as you type, and the line under the box always spells out which reading is running, so the two never get mixed up. On top of either, the filters narrow by length, or by first, last and contained letters—which is the shape of clue Wordle gives you.

What it is useful for

• Scrabble and Words With Friends. Type your rack, ? included for blanks, and see everything it makes, scored, with unplayable archaisms pushed to the bottom.
• Wordle. Filter to five letters and set the letters you have confirmed.
• Anagrams. Enter all the letters of a word to see what else they spell.
• Crosswords. A pattern with ? for the blanks does the job directly.

Browse the word lists

If you would rather read a list than search one, every word length has its own page, and every one of those links on to the words that start with, end in, or contain a given letter— 583 lists in all.

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• All word listsEvery list on the site, arranged by length.
• Scrabble word listsTwo-letter words, Q without U, no vowels, highest scoring.
• Unscramble lettersAnagrams and jumbles: what a set of letters spells, in any order.

Questions

How many letters can I enter?

Three at minimum, twenty-six at most. Every word that can be spelled from the letters you give is returned, using each letter no more than the number of times you typed it—so LETTER finds letter, but LETER does not.

Do I have to use all the letters?

No. Results include every word that uses some of your letters, grouped by length with the longest first. That is what makes it useful for a Scrabble rack, where the seven-letter play usually is not available.

What do the coloured groups mean?

Every word is tagged by how familiar it is. Everyday words (8,357) are ones you would meet in ordinary reading. Word-game words (170,810) are valid in Scrabble and Words With Friends but not everyday English. Archaic and rare (135,840) come from Webster's 1913; many are obsolete and some word games will reject them.

What is the difference between the two search modes?

Letters I have treats what you type as a bag of tiles: order does not matter, and ? is a blank tile that can stand in for any letter. Pattern treats it as a template: position matters, ? is one unknown letter and * is any run of them. So C?T as a rack finds words made from C, T and a blank, while C?T as a pattern finds cat, cot and cut. Results update as you type, and the line under the box always says which reading is running.

How do I search with a blank tile?

Stay in Letters I have and type ? for each blank, exactly as you would write your rack. RETINA? is six tiles plus a blank, and finds certain, trained and terrain among hundreds of others. Because a blank scores nothing, any word that needs one is shown with its real score rather than its face value, in italics.

What do the numbers next to each word mean?

The Scrabble score for that word—raw tile values, before any double or triple squares, since those depend on where you place it. Hover a word to see its Words With Friends score too, which differs because the two games value tiles differently.

Are the letters I type sent anywhere?

No. The word list is downloaded to your browser and every search runs there—which is why results can update as you type without a round trip. Nothing you type leaves your device. The flip side is that the finder needs JavaScript; with it off, the rest of the site still reads normally.