Anagram Solver
Find all words that use the exact same letters rearranged
Enter a word to find all its anagrams (same letters, different arrangement).
What is an anagram?
An anagram is a word formed by rearranging ALL the letters of another word. For example, LISTEN and SILENT are anagrams, they use the exact same letters.
Unlike the word unscrambler (which finds all words from a set of letters, including shorter ones), the anagram solver only finds words that use every letter exactly once.
Famous anagrams
LISTEN → SILENT • EARTH → HEART • STARE → TEARS • NIGHT → THING • BELOW → ELBOW
Why anagrams matter in Scrabble
Knowing anagram pairs gives you options when you're stuck. If you can see PARSE on the board, you also know SPARE, PEARS, REAPS, and APERS all use those same 5 tiles. That's 4 extra plays you might have missed. Competitive players memorise anagram groups for common 7-letter words because spotting a bingo (using all 7 rack tiles for a 50-point bonus) often comes down to recognising a rearrangement.
The word ASTERIN, for example, has 6 anagrams: NASTIER, RETAINS, RETINAS, RETSINA, STAINER, and ANESTRI. A player who only sees NASTIER misses 5 valid bingos from the same rack.
How the solver works
When you enter a word, the tool sorts its letters alphabetically and looks up that sorted key in a pre-built index of all 267,751 SOWPODS words. Every word in the dictionary is stored by its sorted letter signature, so finding all anagrams takes under 10 milliseconds. There's no server call; the entire dictionary runs in your browser.
Difference: anagram solver vs word unscrambler
Anagram Solver: Finds words using ALL letters (same length only). EARTH → HEART, RATHE.
Word Unscrambler: Finds ALL words from your letters (any length). EARTH → earth, heart, rate, tear, hat, the, at, etc.
Need the unscrambler instead? Go to Word Unscrambler →
Tips for finding anagrams yourself
Look for common letter patterns. Words with -TION often rearrange into -INTO or -NOIT combinations. Words ending in -ING rarely have anagrams because ING is such a rigid suffix. Your best bet for multiple anagrams: 7-letter words with common letters like E, A, R, S, T, N, I. Those letters form more valid combinations than rare ones like Q, X, Z.