Find words from your letters

How points are counted

Points come from this site's own table, built from how often each letter appears in the word list: E, S, I, A, R, N, T and O are worth 1; L, C, D and U 2; P, M, G and H 3; B, Y and F 4; V, K and W 5; Z and X 8; Q and J 10. A blank adds nothing. The numbers are a guide to which words use rare letters, not the score any particular game would give — board bonuses, letter counts and point values differ from game to game. The sources page shows the rule.

Three ways in

“I have letters” answers “what can I make from these?”. “I know some letters” answers “what fits this shape?” — a fixed pattern like C?T, a start, an end, letters a word must contain or leave out, and a length. “Wordle clues” takes guesses and their colours and narrows the five-letter words that still fit.

What stays on your device

Everything you type is checked in your browser; the word lists are downloaded in pieces, one length at a time, only when you need them. Save keeps up to six searches on this device, and Copy link puts the search in an address you can share. Nothing is sent to us.

What a blank really does

A blank is the most powerful thing you can type, and also the easiest way to bury the words you care about. With the letters R, A, T and no blank, the finder can only offer words built from those three letters. Add one question mark and every word that fits R, A, T plus any single extra letter appears as well, which brings in a long tail of short words. Add two blanks and the list can grow several times over. If the list suddenly feels too long to read, remove a blank and check whether the word you wanted was already there. If you hold a real blank tile in a board game, try the search with and without it so you can see what the tile is worth before you spend it.

Why only twelve words show at first

A search with eight or nine letters can return hundreds of words, most of them short and obscure. Showing all of them at once would push the useful part of the page far down the screen, so the finder opens with the twelve highest-scoring words and a count of how many more there are. Points are a blunt but useful way to sort, since long words and words with rare letters tend to rise to the top. If you want the longest word instead, press “Show all” and read the group for the greatest length. The words inside each length group are sorted by points too, so the strongest option of that length is the first one in its group.

A worked example

Suppose your rack is T, R, A, I, N, E and S. Typing those seven letters returns words of every length up to seven, with the seven-letter words in the top group. Each of them uses every tile exactly once, so the finder is also showing you every way to rearrange the rack into a single word that this list contains. Now change the S to a question mark. The finder looks for words that use T, R, A, I, N, E and any one other letter, and the top group changes completely. Seeing both lists side by side tells you which tile is doing the work, which is often more useful than the answer itself.

What this tool does not do

It does not know which tiles are on a board, which squares give bonuses, or which words an opponent could set up. It does not check a word against the dictionary of a particular game, and it does not play for you. It lists words that can be spelled from the letters you typed, and the decision about which one to use stays with you. It also will not guess what you meant if you type something that is not a letter: digits and punctuation are ignored, and only the first fifteen letters and blanks are used.