Word Unscrambler

Enter up to 3 wildcards (? or space)

Get the best score in your favorite word games with our Word Unscrambler! Our Word Unscrambler tool is designed to elevate your game play when you use it as a Scrabble cheat, Words With Friends helper, or word search companion. All you have to do is pick your dictionary, enter your letters, and search. 

Just hang on to your letters: We’ll do the rest.

How To Use Our Word Unscrambler

We don’t over complicate things. If you want to unscramble your letters, we make it so easy! Here’s how::

  1. Choose your preferred game dictionary from the provided pull-down list. (BTW, if your game isn’t listed or you’re not sure, picking a Scrabble dictionary is always a safe bet.)

  2. Type your letters into the search bar on this page. You can include up to three wildcards (? or space). These are like the blank tiles you get in some word games.

  3. Click or tap on the search button. (It’s a magnifying glass.)

That’s it! You’re good to go. You’ll be greeted with a list of multiple words your letters can make. Surprisingly simple, huh?

Helpful Hint:  Don’t forget to take advantage of the advanced search functions in our word unscrambler, too. You can find words that start with, contain, or end in certain letters. You can also designate a specific length to the words you want to find.

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That’s a good question. Unscrambling words and unscrambling letters both involve rearranging letters to form words, but there are some key differences between the two you should keep in mind.

Unscrambling Words

Unscrambling words involves rearranging the letters of a jumbled-up word to create a valid word that exists in the English language. 

For example, if you were given the scrambled word "nradwo," unscrambling it would result in the word "onward." It’s what most people would refer to as an “anagram,” which is why our tool also functions as an anagram solver that can unscramble words in a second. It spares you the time you’d probably spend staring at the jumbled word, willing your brain to unscramble it for you. (Trust us. We know from experience.)

Unscrambling Letters

Unscrambling letters, on the other hand, involves using a set of letters to create as many words as possible, without necessarily starting with a specific word. 

For example, if you were given the letters "a," "b." and "c," unscrambling them could result in words like "cab," "bac," "cabby," "bab," "ac," and so on. You probably couldn’t make, say, a 7 letter word out of these letters, but you’d be able to make several different words from the letters provided for you, instead of just the one word. That is what our letter unscrambler tool is designed to do!

How a  Word Unscrambler Can Up Your Game

We’re not in the business of telling you what you do or don’t need, but a word unscrambler can be a super useful tool in your quest for word game victory. Plus, you can use an unscrambler to build your language skills and even exercise your brain.

Become a Word Game Champion

If you’re looking for a word finder to uncover high-scoring words in games like Scrabble and Words With Friends, we’re here to help. Our tool will make words from letters in no time. 

Need some Wordle help or a hint and you have all the letters in the wrong order? We’ve got you covered. Heck, you might even be at your wits’ end with Bananagrams — we’ve all been there. Consider us your secret to success.

In any of these scenarios, our word unscrambler can help. All you have to do is input the lettersand our tool will do the heavy lifting for you. The crosswords, Connections, the Wordscapes levels, even the hardest word jumbles, will never get the best of you again.

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Find Valid Words From Letters

You come up with an awesome word to play, only to be told that it’s not a valid play. You swear that it’s a real word, so you whip out your dictionary. Sure enough, it’s not in there. We totally get the frustration.

Avoid that problem from the start! When you use our unscramble tool to find words, we’ll only show you valid playing words.

For example, somehow you got saddled with the letters TODKLWH. They seem like nonsense, right? Not to our word unscrambler. No, to our unscrambler, TODKLWH can be:

  • HOLK: A hollow cavity

  • KOHL: A cosmetic preparation, such as powdered antimony sulfide, used especially in the Middle East to darken the rims of the eyelids

  • DHOW: Any of various lateen-rigged sailing vessels with one or two masts, used especially along the eastern coast of Africa

  • HOWL: A — well, you know. A howl, the noise a dog or a wolf might make

  • DHOL: A type of drum from Punjab

Nothing stumps our word unscrambler. Not even nonsense.

Unscramble Letters To Learn New Words

Yes, you can use our word unscrambler to improve your game, but that’s not all it will improve. It can build your vocabulary too!.

When you use a word unscrambler to rearrange letters, you can learn all sorts of new words. Then, you can add these new words to your arsenal for future play. An ever-growing vocabulary with more in-game experience sounds like the perfect winning formula, if you ask us.

This can even be a useful tool to help kids learn and grow in school. Apart from helping them build an extensive vocabulary, a word unscrambler can help them in other important ways:

  • SPELLING — Unscrambling words can be a fun way for kids to practice their spelling skills. By using our tool to unscramble words, kids can reinforce their knowledge of spelling patterns and learn how to spell words correctly.

  • CRITICAL THINKING — Unscrambling words requires critical thinking skills, such as problem-solving and analytical thinking. Kids can exercise their brains and their ability to solve problems and use our tool to double-check their abilities. How many words did they get versus our unscrambler?

  • READING COMPREHENSION — With our word unscrambler, kids can improve their ability to recognize different words and understand their meanings. 

When kids are happy, excited, and motivated, they’ll learn to love learning. They’ll be unjumbling those word scrambles on their own in no time.

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Quick Tips to Unscramble Words With Letters

Ever hear of ETAOIN SHRDLU? No, it’s not a Star Wars character. It’s the 12 most common letters in English, in (approximate) order of frequency. If you’re old enough, you may have even seen it in print — back in the day, letters in typeset keyboards were in frequency order, and overworked printers sometimes inked the whole first line by accident.

Okay, who cares? Well, you do, if you’re looking to win big every time. “Etaoin shrdlu” or more accurately “etaoin shrdlu cmfyw gpbvk xqjz” is the secret to turning a handful of gibberish into winning word plays. Here are three quick tricks to unscramble letters and make connections in the word jumble.

You Would Like To Buy a Vowel, Please

Four of the English language’s five main vowels are in that first “etaoin.” Not every word has vowels in it (and the ones that don’t are powerful Scrabble words) but almost every word you play in a word game will have A, E, I or O. 

Start with whichever of those letters you have, then look at the other letters you have or at the board to see where it fits. At the very least, find one free consonant and play a two-letter word.

You Should Find a Digraph

In case you haven’t gotten enough word nerd trivia after “etaoin shrdlu”, digraph basically means any combination of two letters that make a single sound. Courtesy of German, Greek, Latin, and the many other languages English followed down a dark alley and mugged for their vocabulary (to paraphrase a wise man), English has lots of distinctive digraphs to build words around.

Five common digraphs are AI, EA, OI, SH, and TH. How common? Given a five-minute time limit, no Google, no dictionary, top-of-the-head only, we came up with five words for each:

  • AI - gait, main, pain, plain, rain

  • EA - bean, feat, mean, neat, seat

  • OI - coin, groin, loin, loiter, void

  • SH - shade, share, shed, ship, shoulder

  • TH - that, thank, think, though, thus

And there were three minutes left over. Plenty of you noble words nerds could do better. Those digraphs are everywhere in English. If you can find one, you’ve got a word.

Pair Up Those Letters

The English language loves its double letters, and the most common by far are EE, FF, LL, MM, OO, SS, and TT. Whenever you have two of those letters in your hand, you have the basis of a strong Scrabble play. In case you need convincing, check out these examples of easy, high-scoring double-letter words:

  • BEE: An insect with a hairy body, feeding on pollen and nectar and storing honey

  • EFFORT: The use of physical or mental energy

  • HALL: A central room or a passageway between rooms

  • LEMMA: A proposition proved or assumed to be true

  • SOON: In a short time

  • TASSEL: An ornamental tuft of threads

  • WATT: A basic unit of power

Look for Prefixes and Suffixes

The thing about English is that it includes a lot of prefixes and suffixes. Anyone who has tried to learn this language understands that if you know those, you already know a lot of words. Same goes for unscrambling!

Keep an eye out for some common prefixes and suffixes while you’re looking at your letters. Think “ly,” “un,” “bi,” and more. If you see any of these, check your letters for the words you can build.

Bonus Tip: Use Our Word Unscrambler!

Think about the structure of words and the letters that most often go together. Then go from there. If you’re having trouble finding a word, keep rearranging the letters you have, starting with different consonants, and look for those patterns. Follow these tips, practice unscrambling, and you’re bound to improve your score.

Of course, the best tip of all is just to keep using this handy unscrambler! It’s always easier spotting patterns with a little help, after all. When you need help from an expert word finder, simply do what you’ve been doing and give us your letters. We’ll find the words for you.

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