Solvers & tools
Word Unscrambler
A word unscrambler that turns any rack of up to twenty letters into every word it can make, longest first with the best plays marked, searched against all 173,310 words in one public-domain list. Blanks welcome, three at most.
Written by Blake Boege
How to read the results
Results arrive grouped by length, longest first, because in almost every game the long word is the good word. Within a group, the marked best play is the highest tile score; tap any word for its meaning and score before you commit to it. The groups are honest about their size: when a rack makes more words than the page shows, the count says so rather than pretending the list ended.
Unscrambling toward a real board is a filtering job, not just a rack job. If you are playing through an open E, put E in the ends-with filter and the rack in the letters box: what comes back is exactly the set of plays that hook. The filters compose, so starts-with, contains and length can pin down as much of the board as you know.
A worked example
Feed it the word UNSCRAMBLE itself and 724 words come back. Ten letters make exactly one ten-letter word, UNSCRAMBLE, and the eight-letter group hides the best joke in the dictionary: SCRAMBLE, sitting inside its own undoing, along with CLAMBERS and CRUMBLES. Fifty-five sevens and 122 sixes follow before the short stuff starts.
Blanks change the arithmetic fast. The six letters GREBIA make no seven-letter word on their own, but add one blank, typed as GREBIA?, and six appear, ABRIDGE, BEARING and BRIGADE among them. That is why the good unscramble on a blank rack starts long: the blank is worth the most where the letters run out.
Common questions
- How is this different from the anagram solver?
- Scope. The anagram solver only returns words that spend every letter you entered; this page returns everything your letters can make at any length, which is what a game turn usually needs. Same list, same engine, different question.
- How do I enter a blank tile?
- Type a question mark in with your letters, up to three of them. Each one stands for any letter, which multiplies the search rather than adding to it: a single blank on a six-letter rack typically doubles or triples what comes back.
- Why is a word my game accepts missing here?
- Word lists differ. Wordton searches one public-domain list, end to end, on every page of the site. Scrabble apps, Words with Friends and crossword setters each license their own dictionaries, and no two agree about the strange little words. When it matters, the game's own dictionary is the referee.
- Does it handle prefixes, suffixes and containing letters?
- Yes. The filters under the search box take starts-with, ends-with, contains and exact length, and they compose with your rack. Unscrambling toward a board is mostly the ends-with filter doing the work: the hook you are playing through is a constraint the tool should know about.