Word Unscrambler

The unscrambler is a subset matcher. Give it a rack and it tests every word from two letters up to the size of your rack, asking one question of each: can this word be assembled from these tiles? Duplicates are respected — if you hold a single E, a word that needs two is rejected — and every word that survives is grouped by length, longest first, with its point value alongside.

A worked example. Type retinas and the engine returns 256 words: 19 two-letter, 52 three-letter, 76 four-letter, 72 five-letter, 28 six-letter and — remarkably — nine full seven-letter words, because RETINAS is one of the most fertile racks in English. Its complete anagrams are anestri, antsier, nastier, ratines, retains, retinas, retsina, stainer and stearin. Every one scores 7 under Scrabble values, since all seven tiles are 1-point letters, and 8 under Words With Friends values, where the N is worth 2.

Blank tiles are handled the way a real game handles them. Type ? for each blank (up to three) and it will stand in for any letter your real tiles cannot cover — but it scores nothing. Search quart? and the tool finds quartz, yet shows 14 points rather than the 24 the word earns from real tiles, because the Z is riding on the blank. The assignment is never ambiguous: a blank is only ever spent on a letter the rack lacks.

The points themselves are the standard published letter face values of each system — nothing more. Board multipliers such as double-letter or triple-word squares, and the 50-point bonus for emptying a full rack, depend on where a word lands, so they are deliberately left out. Flip the toggle above the results and every group re-sorts by the other system’s values, highest first.

Hold the S. An S is the cheapest extension in any rack game: it hooks onto almost every noun and verb already on the board while your own word grows through it. PLANE becomes planes, PANEL becomes panels, PLANET becomes planets — one tile, two scores. Strong players rarely spend an S for fewer than ten extra points.

Scan for affixes before you scan for words. When a rack looks hopeless, look for -ER, -ED and -ING endings and RE- and UN- openings first, then unscramble what remains. Holding PLANET plus an R? The RE- scan finds replant; add back the S you were saving and replants clears the whole rack. Typing the ending into the Ends with filter above does this scan for you.

Keep the Q next to a U — or know the escape hatches. A Q without a U is usually dead weight, but the list does hold genuine U-free Q words: qat, qaid, qoph, qanat, tranq and faqir among them. QOPH is worth 18 points from face value alone. Put q in the Contains sequence filter to surface every Q word your rack allows.

Learn the two-letter glue. The list contains 96 two-letter words, and they are what let you lay a word flush alongside another for multiple scores in one turn. The valuable ones lean on J and X: jo (9 points), ax, ex, ox, xi and xu (9 each under Scrabble values), while humble pairs like aa, ae, ai and oe quietly rescue vowel-heavy racks. One honest caveat: the public-domain ENABLE list predates the tournament additions qi and za, so this tool will not offer them.

Dump duplicates, keep balance. Two of the same high-value consonant is one too many, and a rack drifting past four vowels or five consonants finds fewer long words. When you must play something small, prefer the move that sheds your third copy of a letter and keeps your vowel–consonant split near even.

The obvious home is any rack-and-board game: crossword games played with lettered tiles, in person or in an app. The points toggle covers both major scoring traditions, so whether your table plays classic values or Words-With-Friends values, the badges and the best-word callout speak your game’s language. Scrabble, Words With Friends and Wordle are trademarks of their respective owners; duplixo is independent of all of them and uses the names only to describe what this tool is useful for.

It is also a fine training tool for word hunts. After a round of Squaredle, feed the grid’s letters in and see the vocabulary you never spotted — just remember a board word must also trace a path of adjacent squares, so not every unscrambled word is placeable.

For five-letter endgames — the last guess or two of Quintle or a Wordle-style puzzle — set Word length to 5 and unscramble the letters you know are in play. When you also know positions (green tiles), the dedicated 5-letter word finder is the sharper instrument, since it filters by locked spots and excluded letters.

And when the puzzle demands a word using every letter exactly once — a jumble, a cryptic’s anagram fodder — switch to the anagram solver, which is this engine restricted to exact rearrangements.

Every result is checked against ENABLE, the public-domain word list — 168,548 playable words of 2 to 15 letters. It is the ancestor of the dictionaries most modern word games use, though not the official TWL or Collins tournament lexicon, so a small number of tournament-only words are absent. The list is split by word length and your browser fetches only the lengths your rack can reach, so nothing loads until you type. Points are computed from each system’s standard published letter values; letters covered by blank tiles score zero, exactly as a blank does on a board. Nothing you type leaves your device — the matching runs entirely in the page.