Anagram solver

An anagram uses every letter of a word or a phrase once, in a new order: LISTEN and SILENT, or DORMITORY and DIRTY ROOM. Type a word, a name, or scrambled letters. The solver lists the single words with all the letters first, then phrases of 2 or 3 common words, then the shorter words.

The phrases come from about 60,000 common words, so they read like English. The words come from a list of about 170,000, rare ones included. Spaces and capitals don't count, and a ? stands for any letter.

• Count the letters. A crossword clue gives the length of the answer, and the answer uses all of them.
• Find the endings first: -ING, -ED, -ER, -EST, -TION. Take their letters out, and the rest is shorter.
• Write the letters in a circle. Your eye sees new pairs that a straight line hides.
• Join the consonants that go together, like TH, CH, ST, and try the vowels between them.

Want a game? Word scramble gives you mixed letters to solve against the clock, and the word unscrambler lists every word that letters make, with filters and points.