Word finder from letters
Letters in, words out — longest first.
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Example
Example: words from the letters G A R D E N S
Seven letter tiles. With “Words made from these letters” and Shortest word set to 4 letters, the finder lists 94 words, longest first and the commonest first within each length.
- Anagram mode with LISTEN: SILENT and ENLIST, the words that use every letter.
- Pattern mode with s??ar: SUGAR, SOLAR, SWEAR, SPEAR, SMEAR, SHEAR, SONAR, SAMAR.
- Pattern mode with *ight: 76 words, from RIGHT and NIGHT to HEAVYWEIGHT.
| Length | First words listed |
|---|---|
| 7 letters | DANGERS |
| 6 letters | GARDEN, DANGER, GRADES, RANGES, GRANDE … |
| 5 letters | RANGE, GRAND, GRADE, ANGER, READS … |
| 4 letters | READ, NEAR, SEND, DEAR, ENDS … |
The best play is DANGERS, all seven tiles. The words come from everyday frequency lists, not a game dictionary, so a name such as EDGAR can appear among them.
How it works
- Type your letters — a ? stands for a blank tile that can be any letter.
- Choose what to find: every word the letters make, the anagrams that use them all, or the words fitting a pattern such as c?t or *ing.
- The words appear grouped by length, the longest and the commonest first.
Frequently asked questions
- Where do the words come from?
- From the 40,000 most frequent words of each language in wordfreq, a list built from books, subtitles, Wikipedia and the web. Common words come first; it is not a Scrabble dictionary, so a few names can appear and some rare words allowed in games are missing.
- How do blanks and patterns work?
- Among letters, a ? (or *) is a blank that stands for any one letter. In a pattern, ? or _ is one unknown letter and * any run of letters: c?t finds cat and cut, *ing every word ending in ing.
- Do accents count?
- As in word games: in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and French an accent does not make a different letter (but Spanish ñ is its own letter); Turkish ç, ğ, ı, ö, ş, ü and German ä, ö, ü are letters of their own, and ß counts as ss.
- Can it unscramble letters into one word?
- Yes — choose “Anagrams — words using every letter”: LISTEN gives SILENT and ENLIST, GARDEN gives DANGER, GRANDE, RANGED and GANDER.
- How do I find words for a crossword with missing letters?
- Choose the pattern mode and type the letters you know, with ? for each gap: s??ar finds SUGAR, SOLAR, SWEAR, SPEAR, SMEAR, SHEAR, SONAR and SAMAR. Use * for a run of any length, as in *ight.
- Is anything uploaded?
- No. It is worked out in your browser, and nothing you type leaves your computer.
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