How to use the anagram solver
Type your letters into the box and the solver instantly lists every word that is a true anagram — one that uses each of your letters exactly once. Turn on "sub-anagrams" to also see shorter words you can spell from a subset of your letters, grouped by length. Both modes update as you type, so you can experiment by adding or removing a letter and watching the results change.
What counts as an anagram
A strict anagram is a one-to-one rearrangement: "listen" and "silent" are anagrams because they contain the same letters — one each of l, i, s, t, e, n. "listen" and "list" are not anagrams, because "list" leaves letters unused. The solver compares the sorted letters of your input against the sorted letters of every dictionary word; when the two signatures match exactly, you have an anagram. Sub-anagram mode relaxes the rule to allow leftover letters, which is handy when you are more interested in what you can make than in tidy one-to-one pairs.
Where anagrams show up
Anagrams are the backbone of cryptic crossword clues, the daily "jumble" puzzle, and games like Text Twist and Anagrams. Writers and marketers use them to invent brand names and pen names; puzzle setters use them to hide answers in plain sight. Teachers use anagram exercises to reinforce spelling, because rearranging letters forces a student to think about the structure of a word rather than just recognising its shape. Because the tool runs locally, it is also a quiet study aid — no account, no ads in the results, nothing sent to a server.
Tips and worked examples
The classic teaching example is "listen": its anagrams include "silent", "enlist", "tinsel", and "inlets" — four common words from six letters. Longer inputs usually have fewer exact anagrams but far more sub-anagrams, so if the exact list comes back empty, switch on sub-anagrams to see what is possible. When solving a crossword clue, count the letters in the clue's fodder and match that to the number of blanks in the grid; a true anagram answer will have the same letter count. And remember that our dictionary excludes proper nouns, so name-based anagrams will not appear.