Word Finder
Find all words you can make from a set of letters, search text for words and patterns, and analyze word frequency.
Search for a word, phrase or regex pattern in your text. Matches are highlighted in yellow, with each match's line number and context listed.
See the most frequently used words in your text. Customize the analysis with stopword filtering and a minimum length setting; download the results as CSV.
Enter 2-20 letters (a-z).
any letter
What Is a Word Finder?
A word finder helps you make sense of letters and text. This free tool does three things in one place: it finds words from letters (a Scrabble and word-game helper), it searches text for words, phrases or regex patterns, and it analyzes word frequency. Whether you are stuck on a board game, unscrambling a puzzle, editing a document or studying which terms repeat in an article, this single page replaces a handful of separate apps. It works instantly in your browser, with no sign-up, and runs entirely on real dictionaries rather than guesswork — so every result you see from your letters is a valid, playable word.
Find Words From Letters
The core of any good word-game helper is turning a jumble of tiles into real words. In the Word Finder tab, enter the letters you have and the tool scans a large English word list — the ENABLE Scrabble dictionary of more than 168,000 entries — to list every word you can build, grouped by length from longest to shortest. This is exactly what players mean when they search for a tool to find words from letters: you type your rack, and the answers appear sorted so the biggest plays are easy to spot. For example, the letters "listen" produce words like silent, enlist, inlets, tinsel along with dozens of shorter words such as lent, tile, line and net.
When you have empty positions to fill, add 1 or 2 blanks (wildcards) to stand for any letter, just like blank tiles on a board. The finder treats each blank as a free choice and expands every combination, so you never miss a high-scoring play that depends on a wildcard. Because the tool reads an actual dictionary instead of only permuting your letters, it works equally well as a word unscrambler for puzzles where the letters are not a clean anagram of a single word.
- Scrabble & Words With Friends: Use it as a Scrabble word finder to surface the highest-scoring valid plays from your tiles — a quick Words With Friends cheat that respects the official word list.
- Anagram word finder: Enter all the letters of a word to reveal every anagram, from full-length rearrangements to shorter sub-words.
- Word puzzles & jumbles: Unscramble jumbled letters into real words for newspaper jumbles, daily puzzles and crossword fill-ins.
- Words with letters: Search for valid words with letters you choose, then filter by minimum length to keep only the entries worth playing.
Scrabble Word Finder and Words With Friends Cheat
Board-game players are the biggest audience for this tool, so it is built to behave like a dedicated Scrabble word finder. Type the seven tiles on your rack and it returns every legal word, longest first, so you can chase the bingo bonus for using all your letters. Because the dictionary is the standard ENABLE word list, the words it suggests are the same ones accepted in casual Scrabble and most word apps. Used this way it doubles as a Words With Friends cheat — not to break the rules, but to learn unusual two- and three-letter words, vowel-heavy plays and hooks you would otherwise overlook. Over time, leaning on a word unscrambler like this actually sharpens your own vocabulary, because you start to recognise the patterns the finder keeps surfacing.
Searching Text for Words and Patterns
The Word Search tab finds every occurrence of a word or phrase in your text and highlights it, listing each match with its line number and surrounding context. Toggle case-insensitive, whole-word match and regex mode. With regex on, you can search for advanced patterns:
| Pattern | Finds |
|---|---|
| \d{10,11} | Phone numbers |
| [A-Z][a-z]+ | Capitalized words |
| \b\w{8,}\b | Words longer than 8 letters |
| \b\w+@\w+\.\w+\b | Email addresses |
Word Frequency Analysis
The Word Frequency tab counts how often each word appears in your text and lists the most common ones with a visual bar. Turn on stopword filtering to remove very common words (the, a, and, of...) and set a minimum word length to focus on meaningful terms. This is handy for SEO, content analysis and finding overused words in your writing.
Who Uses This Tool?
The same three tools serve very different people. The table below shows the most common ways visitors use this page, and which tab fits each job.
| You want to… | Use this tab | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Find words from letters on your rack | Word Finder | Dictionary-checked Scrabble plays, longest first |
| Unscramble a jumbled puzzle word | Word Finder | Works as a word unscrambler with blanks |
| Locate a term or pattern in a document | Word Search | Highlights every match with line context |
| See which words you overuse | Word Frequency | Counts and ranks every word visually |
How to Use This Word Finder
Pick a tab. In Word Finder, enter your letters (and optional blanks) and click Find Words to list every buildable word by length — this is the fastest way to find words from letters and unscramble a tricky rack. In Word Search, paste text and enter a word, phrase or regex to highlight matches. In Word Frequency, paste text and analyze the most-used words. Everything runs locally in your browser: your text is never uploaded, the tools are completely free, and there is no limit on how many times you search. See the FAQ below for tips on Scrabble play, regex patterns and how blanks affect your results.
Frequently Asked Questions About the Word Finder
The word finder is a multi-purpose text tool: it finds all words you can build from a set of letters (a Scrabble and word-game helper), searches a text for specific words or phrases, and analyzes how often words repeat. It is used by writers, editors and word-game players.
In the Word Finder tab, enter the letters you have (for example: listen). The tool scans an English word list and lists every word that can be built from those letters, grouped by length. Use the blanks (wildcards) option to add 1-2 unknown letters.
Yes. The word list is the ENABLE Scrabble dictionary, so the words returned are valid for Scrabble and Words With Friends. Enter your tiles (plus up to two blanks) and the tool lists every playable word, grouped from longest to shortest.
Yes. When Regex mode is on, you can use standard regular-expression patterns. For example, \d{10,11} finds phone numbers, [A-Z][a-z]+ finds capitalized words, and \b\w{8,}\b finds words longer than 8 characters.
The Word Frequency tab counts how often each word appears in your text and shows the most common ones, with a bar for each. You can filter out common stopwords (the, a, and...) and set a minimum word length to focus on meaningful words.
Blanks are wildcard tiles that can stand for any letter, just like blank tiles in Scrabble. Add 1 or 2 blanks and the finder will include words that need up to that many extra unknown letters.
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