Solver
Spelling Bee Solver
Type the seven letters and get every word our dictionary can make from them: four letters or more, each one using the centre letter, with the pangrams pulled out at the top.
Written by Blake Boege Last checked
One thing to know first
The New York Times uses its own curated word list, and we do not have it. Wordton searches ENABLE, a public-domain list of about 172,800 words, plus a supplement of modern words ENABLE never had. The two still do not match: their puzzle accepts words we do not carry, and we carry plenty their puzzle will reject as too obscure. So this tool shows every valid English word that fits your seven letters, which is a superset in some places and a subset in others.
Use it to find the word you were reaching for, not to predict what will be accepted. If a word here is refused by the puzzle, the puzzle is not wrong and neither is this: you are looking at two different dictionaries.
How the puzzle works
Four letters minimum
Three-letter words never count, however tempting. The solver drops them before you see them.
The centre letter is compulsory
Every single word has to use it, which is why it is the letter worth building around.
Letters repeat freely
A letter can appear as many times as you like. There is no rack and nothing runs out.
Nothing from outside
A word containing any eighth letter is out, no matter how good it looks.
A pangram uses all seven letters in one word. There is at least one in every puzzle, and finding it early is the difference between a quick game and a long one. Across our whole dictionary, 14,784 words have exactly seven distinct letters and no S, which makes them the words a puzzle can be built around.
Wordton is not affiliated with The New York Times. The finder searches ENABLE, a public-domain word list, not the puzzle's own dictionary.