Word unscrambler

Put your letters in and get back every word they can make, sorted longest first with the tile score beside each one. Use ? or * for a blank. Everything runs in your own browser — nothing you type is uploaded.

What the unscrambler is actually doing

Your letters are a multiset, not a string: SILENT and LISTEN are the same six tiles, so both live under the same signature in the index — the letters sorted alphabetically, EILNST. Sorting the letters you typed the same way turns "which words can I make" into a lookup rather than a hunt through forty thousand words. That is why results appear as fast as you can type them, on a phone, with no server involved.

Letter multiplicity is respected exactly. A rack with one L cannot make HELLO, because the word needs two and the rack has one — this is the single most common bug in word finders, and it is the first thing the test suite checks. Extra copies are free: a rack with three Ls still makes HELLO once.

Every result is a real word from the list described below. Nothing is invented, nothing is inflected on the fly, and no result is a word the list does not contain.

Where the word list comes from, and what that means for you

This site uses the ENABLE word list — Enhanced North American Benchmark Lexicon — which its authors placed in the public domain. That is a deliberate choice with a consequence you should know about: the official tournament lists are not public domain, so they are not here. The North American tournament list (TWL/NWL) is licensed from Merriam-Webster by NASPA, and the international list (Collins) is Collins' own. Neither appears on this site in whole or in part.

In practice ENABLE agrees with the tournament lists on the overwhelming majority of ordinary words — it was one of the sources they were built from — and disagrees at the edges, which is where obscure two-letter words and recent additions live. If a word from here is challenged in a rated game, the game's own dictionary is the authority, not this site.

The list shipped here is 38,616 words of 3 to 9 letters: every ENABLE word of 3, 4 and 5 letters, and the everyday part of the longer ones. It is compiled into the page, so the site makes no external requests at all — no fonts, no analytics, no dictionary API. You can watch the network tab stay empty while you type.

Blanks, patterns and filters

A ? or * in your letters is a blank tile: it stands for any one letter, and the finder will use it wherever it helps. Two blanks are supported, which is what a Scrabble set contains. A blank scores nothing, which is why a word played with one is worth less than the same word played with real tiles — the scores shown here assume real tiles.

The pattern box is a different question: it asks where the letters go rather than which letters you have. _A__E means five letters with A second and E last, and the underscore can be any letter. Use it for a crossword slot, a partly filled guess, or a word you can half-remember. The two boxes work together — pattern the shape, then filter by the letters you know are in or out.

Length, starts with, ends with, contains and excludes all narrow the same result set. Excluding letters is the one people forget, and it is the most useful of the five when you are eliminating guesses.

What is in the list

38,616 words in total, and this is how they break down. The right-hand column is the highest-scoring word at each length on standard Scrabble tiles, which is a decent guide to how expensive the letters get as words grow.

Length	Words	Highest scoring
3 letters	969	`ZAX` — 19 points
4 letters	3,888	`JAZZ` — 29 points
5 letters	8,621	`JAZZY` — 33 points
6 letters	5,776	`BUZZER` — 26 points
7 letters	6,729	`QUIZZES` — 34 points
8 letters	6,714	`DIZZYING` — 31 points
9 letters	5,919	`EMBEZZLED` — 32 points

Worked examples

Run through the same code the box on this page runs, so the numbers cannot drift from the tool. The last two are the awkward cases: a rack with a blank, and one with almost no vowels.

Letters	Words found	Longest first
`AELRST`	116	ALERTS, ALTERS, SALTER
`AEILNT`	73	ENTAIL, ALIEN, ALINE
`OXENZY`	10	OYEZ, ONYX, ZONE
`QUIET?`	181	EQUITY, PIQUET, QUINTE
`BRRGH`	1	BRR

Common questions

How do I unscramble letters into words?

Type the letters into the box. Every word that can be built from them appears immediately, longest first, with its Scrabble tile score. Use ? or * for a blank tile, and the filters to narrow by length, starting letter or pattern.

Are the results valid in Scrabble or Words With Friends?

They come from the public-domain ENABLE list, which agrees with the official game dictionaries on ordinary words and differs at the edges. NLetterWords is not affiliated with either game, and in a rated match the game's own dictionary settles a challenge, not this site.

Is anything I type sent anywhere?

No. The word list and the solver are downloaded with the page and run in your browser. There is no API call, no analytics and no logging of what you type, because the site makes no external requests at all.

Why does another word finder show more words than this one?

Different dictionaries. Tools built on the licensed tournament lists carry inflections and obscurities this public-domain list leaves out, and some pad their totals with words no dictionary accepts. The list here is stated plainly and can be checked.

Every word, grouped by how long it is

The complete list at each length. Three letters is a page you memorise; nine is a page you search.

Five-letter words by opening letter

The complete list for each letter, with how many there are. S is a page you scroll; X is a page you read.