A crossword solver for 4 letters
This is the Crossword Cracker solver set up for 4-letter answers. It's built for missing letters: there's one square for each letter of the word, so you can copy what's in your grid straight across. It searches 2,815 4-letter words and only ever shows ones that are the right length.
How to use it
- Type each letter you know into the square where it sits in the grid.
- Leave the other squares blank. Press the space bar to skip one.
- If you know a letter is in the word but not where, add it to Also contains. Letters you've ruled out go in Doesn't contain.
- Press Search. Use Copy link to save or share the result.
Short answers, long lists
Four-letter answers hold a grid together, and setters reach for the same ones again and again - AREA, ARIA, EPEE, OLIO. So many short words share a shape that a single crossing letter rarely settles it. Get two and the list usually drops to a handful.
About 21% of the four-letter words here end in S, so check whether the clue is plural before you trust that last square.
4-letter words in numbers
Worked out from the 2,815 4-letter words in the solver. When you have nothing else to go on, these are the best first guesses for each square.
| Square | Most common letters |
|---|---|
| 1 | S 9%, B 7%, P 7% |
| 2 | A 19%, O 19%, I 13% |
| 3 | N 9%, A 9%, E 9% |
| 4 | S 21%, E 14%, T 9% |
The most common first letters are S, B and P. The most common endings are ‑TS (58), ‑ES (55), ‑NS (51), ‑LL (48).
The 4-letter patterns people search for most
From Crossword Cracker's own search logs: the 4-letter patterns looked up most often, and what fits them. Tap one to run it.
ad?e1 word: adzea??a9 words, including alga, alia, alma, aqua, area, ariaa?ar3 words: afar, agar, ajara?a?8 words, including afar, agar, ajar, alai, alas, arabo??o7 words, including ohio, oleo, olio, onto, orzo, osloee??1 word: eels?o?o14 words, including bozo, coco, coho, dodo, hobo, loco??zz6 words: buzz, fizz, fuzz, jazz, razz, tizz
Other word lengths
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Not sure of the length, or working with something longer? The crossword solver takes a pattern of any length. For a codeword or Code Cracker grid, use the codeword solver.
Frequently asked questions
How many 4-letter words are there?
This solver's word list has 2,815 4-letter words, covering British, American, Australian and Canadian spellings. Other dictionaries give slightly different totals, depending on what they count as a word.
What if I don't know where any of the letters go?
Leave the squares empty and type the letters into "Also contains". You'll get every 4-letter word that has all of them, wherever they fall. "Doesn't contain" rules letters out.
What if I'm not sure how long the answer is?
Use the main crossword solver, which takes a pattern of any length. Or count the squares in the grid and pick the word finder for that length.