How to unscramble letters
- Type your letters in any order — a Scrabble rack, a jumbled word from a puzzle, the letters of a clue. Capitals and accents don’t matter.
- Add blank tiles with a question mark (?) or a space between letters. Each blank stands for any letter; you can use up to three.
- Narrow the list if you need to: Starts with, Ends with and Contains keep only words with those letters in that order, and Minimum length hides short words.
- Read the results: words are grouped by length, longest first, and each shows its tile points. The table below the groups lists every word again, highest score first.
The list updates as you type. The first search downloads the dictionary once (about 440 KB); after that every search runs on your device in a fraction of a second, and your letters are never sent anywhere.
How the unscrambler works
The tool doesn’t try every ordering of your letters — seven tiles already have 5,040 orderings, and twelve have almost half a billion. It counts letters instead. When the dictionary loads, each of its 172,823 words is turned into 26 numbers: how many A’s, B’s, C’s and so on it contains. Your letters get the same treatment, and a word can be made from your tiles when it never needs more of a letter than you have.
Blank tiles cover the difference. For each word the tool adds up the letters it is short of — one missing S, two missing E’s — and keeps the word if that shortfall is no larger than your number of blanks. With RETAIN? the word RETAINS fits because the blank becomes the S.
Points follow the same logic. A word scores the face value of the tiles you actually hold; letters supplied by a blank score 0, as a blank does on the board. These are base tile values only — double- and triple-letter or word squares depend on where you play.
Worked examples
TINSLE (no blanks, words of three letters or more) gives 79 words. Six use every tile — ELINTS, ENLIST, INLETS, LISTEN, SILENT and TINSEL — followed by 16 five-letter words such as INLET, ISLET, STEIN and TILES, 32 four-letter words and 25 three-letter words. Every tile in this rack is worth 1 point, so each six-letter word scores 6.
RETAIN? with the minimum length set to 7 gives 53 seven-letter words, among them CERTAIN, GRANITE, NASTIER, RETAINS, STAINER, TRAINER and URINATE. Each scores 6: six real tiles at 1 point and a blank worth nothing.
QUI? shows how a blank changes the score: QUAI, QUID, QUIN, QUIP, QUIT and QUIZ each score 12 — Q is worth 10, U and I 1 each, and the fourth letter comes from the blank, so QUIZ gets nothing for its Z.
Scrabble letter values
Points use the standard English Scrabble values. An English set has 100 tiles: 98 letters and 2 blanks, which score nothing. Other word games can use their own values, so treat the numbers as Scrabble points.
| Points | Letters |
|---|---|
| 1 | A, E, I, L, N, O, R, S, T, U |
| 2 | D, G |
| 3 | B, C, M, P |
| 4 | F, H, V, W, Y |
| 5 | K |
| 8 | J, X |
| 10 | Q, Z |
| 0 | Blank tile (type ? or a space) |
Which words count
The dictionary is ENABLE (Enhanced North American Benchmark LExicon), a public-domain list of 172,823 English words compiled for word games. It includes plurals and verb forms (TILES, LISTENS) and many words you rarely meet outside a game, such as ELINTS or ANESTRI. It is close to the official tournament lists but not identical: OK and EW, which Merriam-Webster added to The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary in 2018, are missing, for example. When a word decides a game, check it in the dictionary your game or club uses.
Tips
- Building on a board letter? Add it to your letters and put it in Contains, so every word uses it.
- Extending a word on the board (TRAIN → TRAINER): type your rack plus that word’s letters and set Starts with or Ends with to the word.
- Jumbled-word puzzles and crossword anagram clues: the top group holds the words that use every letter.
- Stuck on Wordle? The Wordle solver ranks your next guess. For writing, try the word counter, case converter or font generator.
Frequently asked questions
How do I enter a blank tile?
Type a question mark (?) or a space between letters — RE?AIN and RE AIN mean the same. You can use up to three blanks. Spaces at the very start or end are ignored, so put a ? there instead.
Why do I see words I’ve never heard of?
The ENABLE dictionary is made for word games, so it keeps rare but legitimate words such as ELINTS (electronic intelligence signals) and old or technical terms. Raise the minimum length or add a filter for a shorter list.
Is using a word unscrambler cheating?
In a tournament or a friendly game where nobody agreed to it, yes. Many players use it after a game to see the moves they missed, to study high-scoring words, or for solo puzzles such as newspaper jumbles — and that’s what it’s best for.
What is the difference between this and the anagram solver?
The word unscrambler finds every word you can make from some or all of your letters, with Scrabble points and blank tiles. The anagram solver only shows words and two-word phrases that use all the letters exactly once.
Are my letters sent to a server?
No. The page downloads the word list once and searches it inside your browser. Nothing you type is uploaded or stored.
Last updated: October 15, 2026