Four tools on the same letters
Anagrams
Every one-word anagram, then phrase anagrams that use all the letters. Phrase settings let you set how many words, how short they can be, a word that must appear, and words to leave out.
Words in it
Every word you can make from some of the letters, longest first, with “starts with / ends with / contains” filters and ? for a blank tile. This is what people mean by an unscrambler.
Workbench
The way people make good anagrams by hand: type a word you like, watch those tiles get used up, and get suggestions for the letters left over. How to make an anagram.
Check two
Paste two words or phrases to see whether they really are anagrams, and which letters are left over if not. Many “famous anagram” lists online include a few that don’t work: ours are all checked.
An anagram uses every letter, once
That rule is the whole game. Listen and silent are anagrams: same six letters, nothing added, nothing left over. Listen and lens aren’t, because lens leaves letters behind. The drawing shows the rule as a picture: every tile on top moves to exactly one place below.
The tiles that move are drawn in coral; tiles that stay put are grey.
Anagrams are old. The word comes from Greek ana- (“back, anew”) and gramma (“letter”), and scientists in the 1600s published discoveries as scrambled letters to claim them before they were ready to explain them. Read what an anagram is, browse famous anagrams, or look up the anagrams of any common word.
Questions
- What is an anagram?
- A word or phrase made by rearranging every letter of another word or phrase exactly once: listen becomes silent, dormitory becomes dirty room. Using only some of the letters makes a different game (unscrambling), not an anagram.
- Is this anagram maker free?
- Yes. It has no sign-up and no limits, and it runs in your browser, so nothing you type is sent to anyone.
- How do I find an anagram of my name?
- Type your full name above and press Make anagrams. Open Phrase settings to allow more words, smaller words, or to force a word you like (Must include). Then use the Workbench tab to polish your favourite by hand.
- Why do some results sound odd?
- A computer finds every way to split the letters into real words; only some read like a sentence. Results are ordered with everyday words first, and the Workbench helps you shape a good one into something that means something.
- What word list do you use?
- SCOWL, a freely licensed English word list by Kevin Atkinson that ranks words from very common to rare. Rude words and slurs are filtered out.