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A word unscrambler finds every real word that can be spelled from a set of jumbled letters, using some or all of them. This one searches the 77,636 single-word entries in AltF Lexicon, returns up to 400 answers ordered longest first, and links each one to its full dictionary entry. Type ? for a letter you do not have.
Type at least two letters. Every word hiding in them appears here, longest first.
Unscrambling is a containment question, not a rearrangement one. The tool holds every dictionary word by its sorted letters — deprais for both PRAISED and DESPAIR — and asks of each signature: can your letters cover it? A word is an answer when every letter it needs is present in your set, counted with multiplicity, so RAPIDS is an answer for SPRAINED but PAPERS is not, because you only have one P.
That check runs against all 72,807 signatures in the index, skipping any longer than your rack. Each blank you type raises the number of missing letters a word is allowed to have by one, which is exactly what a blank tile does.
The engine behind this page and behind the anagram solver is the same code with one flag changed. An anagram is the special case where the answer has to be the same length as the rack.
All 77,636 of them are headwords in AltF Lexicon, which is built from Princeton University’s WordNet. Only entries written as a single unbroken run of a–z are searched, between 1 and 31 letters long — a jumble of loose letters cannot produce a space, a hyphen or an apostrophe, so entries containing them are left out rather than silently matched on a stripped-down form.
The meter beside each answer is that word’s commonness band, from a frequency corpus of everyday English. Puzzle setters and Scrabble players want opposite ends of it, so it is shown rather than used to filter.
The word list comes from Princeton University’s WordNet, with commonness bands derived from a frequency corpus of everyday English. Definitions and pronunciations on the linked entry pages come from WordNet and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Full sources and licences.