Words with Letters

Use asterisks (*) for wildcards (blank tiles).

Words with Letters - Find Words Containing Specific Letters

WordLime's Words with Letters helps you find words that contain specific letters - either unscrambling letters (with optional blanks/wildcards) or finding words that match a specific pattern.

If you have a set of letters and want to find all possible words that can be formed with them, enter the letters in the "Letters" field. You can use asterisks (*) as wildcards for blank tiles.

Alternatively, if you know the length of the word and the letters in specific positions, you can first select a length in the "Length" field. As soon as you select a length, the "Letters by position" field will be visible, allowing you to specify known letters in respective boxes. Just fill those in and click "Find words"!

These two options can be used together to find words that match complex criteria. Along with that, these can also be combined with "More Filters" to get the power of our full featured Word Finder.

Game-Specific Tips

Crosswords: First set the exact "Length" of the word you need, then use "Letters by position" to fill in the letters you already know from intersecting words. Leave unknown positions empty to see all possible words that fit.

Wordle: Set "Length" to 5, use "Letters by position" for confirmed letters in correct positions, "Include letters" for letters that are in the word but in wrong positions, and "Exclude letters" for letters that have been eliminated. This combination will quickly narrow down your possibilities.

Filters

  • Letters

    • Enter the letters available to you to find words that can be made using only these letters (anagrams).
    • Use asterisks (*) for wildcards (blank tiles).
    Examples:
    • celost → closet, celts, close, clots, colts, stole, clot, colt, cost, cots
    • enorsw → owners, worsen, owner, senor, snore, swore, sworn, worse, eons, news
    • aety** → artery, beauty, betray, earthy, eatery, fealty, gaiety, gayest, hearty, lately
    • efor** → before, confer, effort, fedora, fervor, flower, fodder, folder, fonder, forage

  • Allow letter repetition?

    • Allow the same letter to be used multiple times in a word, even if you only have it once.
    Examples:
    • aort → rotator, orator, tartar, tattoo, aorta, rotor, tarot, roar, root, rota
    • elns → senseless, lenses, lessen, senses, sells, sense, eels, else, lees, lens
    • aet* → attest, estate, settee, tattle, teepee, abate, eaten, eater, latte, matte
    • mos* → bosoms, cosmos, booms, bosom, looms, memos, momma, mommy, moods, moons

  • Length

    • Enter the exact number of letters that the word must have.
    • Setting a length automatically enables the "Letters by position" option, allowing you to specify known letters in specific positions.

  • Letters by position

    • Specify known letters in exact positions within the word.
    • This is useful for crossword puzzles or when you know certain letters but not others.
    • Leave positions empty for unknown letters.
    Examples:
    • s?a?e → scale, scare, shade, shake, shale, shame, shape, share, shave, skate
    • s?a?s → scabs, scams, scans, scars, seals, seams, sears, seats, slabs, slags
    • ?ake? → baked, baker, bakes, caked, cakes, faked, faker, fakes, laker, lakes
    • ?ate? → bates, cater, dated, dates, eaten, eater, fated, fates, gated, gates

  • Pattern

    • Enter a pattern to match the entire word.
    • Use ? for any single letter and * for any sequence of zero or more letters.
    Examples:
    • de???ed → debated, decayed, decided, decoded, decreed, deduced, defaced, defamed, defiled, defined
    • re???es → reaches, recipes, recites, reduces, refuses, regimes, relates, relaxes, removes, replies
    • ?el*te? → belted, melted, belated, deleted, related, relates, selected, cellmates, delegated, delegates
    • ?nt*in? → untying, entering, enticing, intending, interning, intestine, intruding, entertains, entrusting, intriguing

  • Starting with

    • Enter the letters or pattern that the word must begin with.
    • You can use wildcards: ? for any single letter and * for any sequence of zero or more letters.
    Examples:
    • pr?s? → press, prism, priss, prose, presto, prison, prissy, present, preside, pressed
    • ra?i? → rabid, radio, rapid, ratio, rabies, racial, racing, racism, racist, radial
    • *p?tch → patch, pitch, patchy, patched, patches, pitched, pitcher, pitches, dispatch, patching
    • *r?nch → ranch, branch, brunch, crunch, drench, rancho, trench, wrench, crunchy, rancher

  • Ending in

    • Enter the letters or pattern that the word must end in.
    • You can use wildcards: ? for any single letter and * for any sequence of zero or more letters.
    Examples:
    • ?a?er → baker, caper, carer, cater, eager, eater, faker, gamer, gayer, hater
    • ?i?al → final, rival, tidal, viral, vital, animal, bridal, primal, spinal, spiral
    • ind?c* → indict, induce, induced, induces, indecent, indicate, indicted, inducing, inducted, indecency
    • lat?d* → elated, plated, slated, belated, dilated, related, deflated, inflated, isolated, violated

  • Containing

    • Enter a sequence of letters or pattern that must appear somewhere within the word.
    • You can use wildcards: ? for any single letter and * for any sequence of zero or more letters.
    Examples:
    • i?li?g → idling, billing, dialing, filling, killing, milling, rifling, sibling, willing, billings
    • t?nd?n → tendon, tending, tendons, standing, tendency, attendant, attending, extending, intending, attendance
    • ele*rat → celebrate, accelerate, celebrated, celebrates, electorate, accelerated, accelerates, accelerator, celebrating, celebration
    • nst*uct → instruct, construct, instructs, instructed, instructor, constructed, instructing, instruction, instructive, instructors

  • Include letters

    • Enter individual letters that must be present somewhere in the word. The letters can appear in any position and don't need to be consecutive.
    • Useful for word games where certain letters must be used one or more times.
    • Duplicate letters mean minimum count: "aab" requires at least 2 "a" and 1 "b".
    Examples:
    • aeiou → dialogue, equation, euphoria, auctioned, authorise, authorize, autopsies, behaviour, cautioned, dialogues
    • eeenn → benzene, eminence, engineer, nineteen, sentence, tenement, deepening, dependent, engineers, gentlemen
    • eeess → cheeses, essence, seekers, sleeves, sneezes, defenses, deserves, escapees, excesses, expenses
    • eerrr → merrier, terrier, murderer, recorder, referral, referred, reformer, reporter, sorcerer, berserker
    • eesss → messes, senses, blesses, dresses, guesses, presses, tresses, useless, vessels, assessed

  • Exclude letters

    • Enter individual letters that must not appear anywhere in the word.
    • Useful for word games where certain letters are forbidden or unavailable.
    • Duplicate letters mean maximum count: "aab" allows at most 1 "a" and no "b".
    • Combined with "Include letters", this can be used to specify minimum and maximum counts for letters: include "aab" + exclude "abb" will match words with exactly 2 "a" and 1 or 2 "b".
    Examples:
    • aiou → beck, beds, beef, been, beep, beer, bees, beet, begs, bell
    • eiou → achy, acts, adds, afar, ajar, alas, alba, ally, alma, alms

  • Dictionary

    • Select which word list to search from. Different dictionaries contain different sets of valid words.