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Up to 16 letters. Use ? for a blank or unknown tile.
Type the letters you have into the box above and the words appear as you type — there is no button to wait on and nothing is sent to a server. If your letters come from a game on your phone, upload a screenshot instead and the tiles are read for you. Use ? for a blank tile or a letter you cannot make out.
Results are grouped longest first, because length is usually what wins a round. Switch to Highest score when you are playing a tile game where rare letters matter more than length, or A–Z when you are checking whether one specific word exists.
A seven-letter rack can produce a few hundred words, which is more than anyone wants to read. The filters cut that down:
J, Q, X and Z are worth 8 to 10 points each in most tile games, and beginners hoard them waiting for a long word that never comes. The better habit is to play them early in something short. There are 84 three-letter words containing one of those four letters — zax, jeu, pyx, qat, zek — and a three-letter word on a double letter square routinely beats a seven-letter word played across plain squares.
The most common way to get stuck is holding a Q with no U. It is worth knowing that you do not need one. The dictionary here contains 29 such words, and there is more on each of them on the Q words without U page:
buqsha, buqshas, faqir, faqirs, qaid, qaids, qanat, qanats, qat, qats, qindar, qindarka, qindars, qintar, qintars, qiviut, qiviuts, qoph, qophs, qwerty, qwertys, sheqalim, sheqel, suq, suqs, tranq, tranqs, umiaq, umiaqs
Qat, qoph and suq are the three worth committing to memory — they are short, they are accepted almost everywhere, and they turn a dead tile into points.
A blank scores nothing itself, which makes people spend them cheaply. Enter one as ? above and look at how many more words appear: a blank typically multiplies the options several times over. Holding one for a turn to reach a seven-letter bonus is usually worth more than the few points spent playing it immediately.
The solver answers what your letters make right now. These lists cover what is worth knowing before you start — the complete sets, with notes on which entries actually earn their place in a game.
The two-letter list is the one that repays memorising, and there is a quiz that drills it — twenty pairs a round, half of them convincing fakes.
If you are part-way through a guessing game and have colours on the board rather than tiles in your hand, the Wordle helper is the tool for that — it takes the guesses you have already played and lists what is still possible. It reads a grey tile as “no more of this letter” rather than “none at all”, which is what the game means and what decides whether a word with a repeated letter stays in the running.
The honeycomb puzzle asks a different question from the one above, and the difference is worth knowing: a rack is spent, so seven tiles make a seven-letter word at most, while the Bee's seven letters can be reused as often as you like — which is how committee comes out of them. The solver on this page cannot answer that, so there is a separate one for it that takes the seven letters and the centre, and marks the pangrams.
That depends entirely on who you are playing with. In a casual game against a friend, ask first. Plenty of people use tools like this to learn — checking after a round which words they missed is one of the faster ways to build a usable vocabulary of short, high-value plays. Competitive tournament play prohibits any assistance.
The ENABLE word list, which is the public-domain lexicon most English word games are built from. Individual games add and remove entries, so a word appearing here is not a guarantee your particular game accepts it. Proper nouns and abbreviations are excluded throughout.
Usually one of three reasons: it is a proper noun, it is a regional spelling the list does not carry, or the filters are still narrowing the results from an earlier search. Clearing the filters is worth trying first.
It works best on clean tile layouts with clear lettering. Decorative fonts, gradients and busy backgrounds are harder, and letters arranged in a circle come back in the wrong order — which does not matter, since the solver rearranges them anyway. Whatever it reads lands in an editable box, so you can correct anything it gets wrong before solving.
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