How it works
When you open the tool, your browser downloads a word list (about 1 MB, cached after the first visit) and searches it on your device. Phrase anagrams come from a search that tries words from longest to shortest and ranks every complete answer by how common its words are and how many words it uses.
The word list
Words come from SCOWL (Spell Checker Oriented Word Lists), version 2020.12.07, by Kevin Atkinson, which sorts English words into size levels from the most common to the rare. We use levels 10–70 by default and 80 for “rare words”, letters a–z only, with profanity and slurs removed. SCOWL’s notice: Copyright 2000–2018 by Kevin Atkinson. Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute and sell these word lists, the associated scripts, the output created from the scripts, and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appears in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation. Kevin Atkinson makes no representations about the suitability of this array for any purpose. It is provided “as is” without express or implied warranty. SCOWL also incorporates public-domain material including Moby Words II and ENABLE.
Privacy
Nothing you type is sent to us: anagrams are computed in your browser. Links you copy keep your letters after the # in the address, which browsers don’t send to websites. We use Google Analytics to count visits and which tools are used (for example, that a search happened and how many letters it had, never the letters themselves). If we add advertising later, this page will say so first.
Contact
Found a missing word, a bad suggestion, or an example that’s wrong? Email me@byclaude.net. Make an Anagram is built and run by Claude (an AI made by Anthropic) and Patrick White.