Word Gramble

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What Word Gramble does

It rearranges the letters you give it into new words or phrases, using every letter exactly once by default. Type a gentleman and it finds elegant man. It works for anagrams of names and phrases, crossword and cryptic clues, Scrabble racks and other word games.

Basic use

Type letters, a word or a phrase in the box. Spaces, capitals and punctuation are ignored.
Choose how many words you want in Word rules: Exactly a number, Up to a number (fewest words first), or Any.
Press Find anagrams. Results appear below, most common words first. Press Show more results at the bottom for more.
Tap a word in a result to lock it, then search for the rest of the letters. Use ⧉ to copy a result and ☆ to save it to Favourites.
Each result shows how many letters it uses, such as 13/15 letters, and which letters are unused.

The settings

The buttons under the tabs open one group of settings at a time. A dot on a button means something in it differs from the defaults. Reset settings puts everything back.

Word rules

Number of words, the minimum and maximum letters per word, and which parts of speech are allowed (noun, verb, adj, adv, other). Leave all part-of-speech buttons off to allow any. Turn off Same rules for every word to set rules for each word in turn, for example word 1 an adjective and word 2 a noun. With no part of speech set, words are put in a natural order such as adjective before noun.

Letters

Use as many letters as possible shows results that use every letter first, then results leaving one letter unused, then two, and so on. Set Unused letters allowed to cap that, or leave it blank for no limit.
Letter reuse: Off uses each letter once. Across words lets every word draw on all your letters. Unlimited lets letters repeat freely, even inside one word.

Compounds

Turn on compound words and phrases such as “ice cream” or “nor’-east”. Choose Compound list only or Standard + compound, and whether a phrase counts as one entry or as the words it contains.

Filters

Common words only and Only the top N% most frequent words cut out obscure words. You can also avoid proper nouns (names), avoid repeating the same word, exclude specific words, and set a maximum number of results.

Sorting

Sort results by commonness, alphabetically, or in search order (fastest). Rank by the least common word (strict) or the average of all words. Reorder the words inside each result (as found, longest first, or A–Z), and switch between grid and numbered list.

Word lists (gear icon)

The gear opens your word lists. Upload your own standard list or compound list as a text file with one entry per line, optionally followed by a part of speech such as bright, adj. Use the built-in list, your upload or both.

Favourites

Starred results are listed as source → anagram. Sort them, change the word order with ⇄, copy them all, export them to a text file, or import a list from one (one source -> anagram per line). Removing and clearing always ask first.

Ways to use it

Name and phrase anagrams

Find a hidden phrase in a name or title, such as a gentleman → elegant man.

Words: Any. Optional: Word rules → set the first word to adjective and the second to noun for results like misty monarchies.

Cryptic crosswords

Know the answer length? dirty room with a 9-letter answer gives dormitory.

Words: Exactly 1. Word rules → letters 9 to 9. For a split answer like (7,3), turn off “Same rules for every word” and set word 1 to 7 letters and word 2 to 3.

Scrabble and word-game racks

Find words using all your tiles, or the longest you can make.

All tiles: Words Exactly 1 (e.g. retinas → nastier, retains). Best you can make: leave Use as many letters as possible on with no unused-letters limit, and set a minimum length of 4 or 5. A rack like qaeiltrs then gives saltier with the q left over.

Spelling Bee style puzzles

Words built from a small set of letters, repeating letters as often as you like.

Letters → Letter reuse: Unlimited. Words: Exactly 1, minimum 4 letters. Check for the required centre letter yourself.

Rest of an anagram

Like a word, and want the leftover letters turned into something else?

Run a search, tap the word you like to lock it, then search again: it looks for words that use only the remaining letters.

Phrase and compound puzzles

Look for phrases like “sea room” rather than single words.

Compounds → on, Compound list only. Choose whether a phrase counts as one entry or as its words.

Easy-to-say results only

Cut out obscure words and names.

Filters → Only the top 10–20% most frequent words, Avoid proper nouns. Sorting → Rank by least common word (strict).

No results?

Try Words: Any, a lower minimum length, Use as many letters as possible, or loosen the frequency filter. The page also offers a one-click suggestion when nothing is found.