Word Unscrambler

It checks your letters against a dictionary of about 169,000 words and keeps every word that can be spelled with them, using each tile at most as many times as you have it. Results are grouped by length, longest first, and inside each length the common words come before the rare ones.

Type a question mark or an asterisk for each blank, like QU?Z. The blank can stand for any letter. In the results the letter the blank plays is underlined and scores zero, just like in Scrabble and Words With Friends. Up to three blanks work well; more blanks return very long lists.

ENABLE, a public domain list of 172,820 words built for word games, which Words With Friends started from, plus newer everyday words such as selfie and blockchain. The official Scrabble lists are proprietary, so a few tournament-only words may be missing, and some words here may not be valid in your game.

Dimmed words are rare: valid in word games but hardly used, like aal or qat. They sit at the end of each length so the words you can actually play in a casual game or use in a puzzle come first. Tick Hide rare words to remove them completely.

Yes. Open More filters, put the green letters in the pattern with an underscore for each unknown square, like _R_N_, add the yellow letters to Must include and the gray ones to Exclude. You can leave the letters box empty: the filters search the whole dictionary.

Yes. Switch to Spelling Bee, type the seven letters and the center letter. It lists words of four letters or more that use only those letters, repeating them as needed, and always the center one. Pangrams, which use all seven letters, are highlighted, and Bee points are shown for each word.

Each word shows the sum of its letter values in the game you pick, with blanks worth zero. A word that uses seven tiles gets the bingo bonus, 50 points in Scrabble and 35 in Words With Friends. Board bonuses such as double word squares depend on where you play, so they are not included.

Words that use every letter you typed are highlighted at the top of their group. That is the answer to a Jumble or an anagram puzzle, and the bingo in Scrabble when you type a seven tile rack. If none are highlighted, no single word in the dictionary uses all of the letters.

Yes. Leave the letters empty and use the filters: a pattern such as C_O_S_O_D, starts with, ends with, contains, or a length. The whole dictionary is searched, so it works as a crossword helper and a word finder for any puzzle that gives you a few letters in place.

Every word in the results is a link to its Wiktionary entry, which opens in a new tab with the definition, pronunciation and origin. That is handy for checking an unfamiliar word before playing it, or for learning new vocabulary while you solve a puzzle.