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Strict by design
Enter listen and you get enlist, inlets, silent and tinsel — nothing shorter, nothing padded. That strictness is the point. When a crossword clue says the answer is an anagram of six letters, a list cluttered with four-letter words is just noise.
Good for cryptic clues
Cryptic crossword setters signal an anagram with words like confused, broken, arranged, cooked or wild. Once you have spotted the indicator, the fodder is usually the words immediately beside it. Type those letters in here and compare the results against your crossing letters.
Reading the answers
Each result carries its Scrabble value, and tapping it reveals a short definition. For anagram puzzles the definition matters more than the score — it is how you tell which of four valid anagrams actually answers the clue.
When to widen the net
The default dictionary covers everyday vocabulary. Puzzle setters sometimes reach further. If your letters return nothing, press Add rare game words below the results to search the full 178,000-word list before concluding that no anagram exists.
Common questions
How is this different from the word finder?
The word finder shows anything you can build from some of your letters. The anagram solver only shows words the same length as your input, using every letter exactly once.
My letters have no anagram. Now what?
Many letter sets genuinely have none. Try the full dictionary using the button under the results, or switch to the word finder to see what shorter words are available.
Can it solve multi-word anagrams?
Not yet — it finds single words only. For a phrase, try solving the most distinctive chunk of letters first and work outwards.
Does it help with cryptic crosswords?
Yes. Cryptic anagram clues almost always resolve to a single word of the same length as the fodder, which is exactly what this page returns.