Unscramble letters into words and phrases
The solver finds every word that uses all of your letters, with the common ones first. Plenty of crossword anagrams are more than one word, so it also finds two-word answers: saw nothing gives nothing was, and dormitory gives dirty room. Under those you'll find the shorter words that some of the letters make.
Fit the anagram to your crossword answer
Add an answer pattern to see only the answers that fit the squares. Type the word lengths the way the clue prints them, like (4,6), or type the squares themselves, with the letters you already have and a ? for each blank, like ?o?? ??????.
With astronomer, the pattern (4,6) gives 91 answers, such as moon arrest and tore ransom. Knowing the second letter is O, ?o?? ?????? cuts that to 57. The pattern can cover up to four words.
Solving anagram clues in cryptic crosswords
An anagram clue in a cryptic crossword has three parts: the letters to rearrange (the fodder), a word telling you to rearrange them (the indicator), and a straight definition at the start or the end. Indicators hint at change, damage or disorder: broken, mixed, wild, confused, strangely, ruined, cooked, out, perhaps.
Take Quiet once tinsel is ruined (6). Quiet is the definition, ruined is the indicator and tinsel is the fodder. Type tinsel with the pattern (6) and you get listen, silent, enlist and inlets. If a crossing answer has already given you the S at the start, s????? leaves only silent.
The fodder has to be exactly as long as the answer, which is the quickest way to spot it: count the letters in the clue's words until they match the number in brackets.
How to use the anagram solver
- Type the letters, in any order. Spaces don't count, so you can paste a whole phrase from a clue.
- If it's for a crossword, add the answer pattern, like
(5,4)ord???? ????. - Press Search. Tap an answer to copy it. Copy link saves the search, pattern included.
Want Scrabble scores? Use the Scrabble word finder. Working a grid with known letters and blanks, but no anagram? The crossword solver is built for that.
What is an anagram?
An anagram is a word or phrase made by rearranging the letters of another, using each letter exactly once. The word comes from the Greek ana- ("again") and gramma ("letter"). The best ones feel almost intentional: listen becomes silent, dormitory becomes dirty room, and astronomer becomes moon starer.
Anagrams are far older than word games. In 1610 Galileo announced his sighting of Saturn's strange "ears", which turned out to be its rings, as a scrambled Latin anagram, so he could prove later that he had seen them first. J.K. Rowling hid "I am Lord Voldemort" inside the letters of "Tom Marvolo Riddle".
Frequently asked questions
How do I use the word lengths from a crossword clue?
Type them in the answer pattern box, as the clue prints them, for example (5,4). The solver then only shows answers with those word lengths: dormitory with (5,4) gives dirty room. You can also type the squares with the letters you already have, such as d???? ????.
Can it find anagrams of a phrase or a name?
Yes. Type the whole phrase; spaces don't count. Without a pattern it suggests two-word anagrams for up to 18 letters. With a pattern it fills up to four words.
What counts as a true anagram?
A true anagram uses every letter of the original exactly once, with nothing left over and nothing added, so silent is a perfect anagram of listen.
What if I want words from only some of my letters?
Shorter words made from some of the letters are listed under the anagrams. For Scrabble scores, use the Scrabble word finder.