Words with Letters

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

Words With Letters

This page keeps things simple. If you have a handful of letters and want to know what to make of them, this is the fastest way as you don't have to sort through extra filters unless you want them.

Type your letters and we'll return every word that can be formed with them. If you have a blank tile, use an asterisk in place of the unknown letter, and turn on "Allow letter repetition", if a letter can be used more than once even if you possess one copy of it.

Once you set a word length, a new option called Letters by position appears. This lets you lock in letters you already know in specific positions, while leaving the rest open. This is useful when the word is six letters long, and starts with 'b'.

A few searches to try:

  • Simple: Enter ptreas to get back words like paster, tapers, pastre and sprat
  • Advanced: Set the length to 6, then under Letters by position, put 'b' in the first spot, and 'g' in the last, you'll get words like baking, bating and belong.

Click more filters to bring in the rest of the Word Finder kit.

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, cost, cots, lest
    • enorsw → owners, worsen, owner, senor, snore, swore, sworn, worse, eons, news
    • aety** → artery, beauty, betray, earthy, eatery, fealty, gaiety, hearty, lately, neatly
    • 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, taro, toot
    • elns → senseless, lenses, lessen, senses, sells, sense, eels, else, lees, lens
    • aet* → attest, settee, teepee, abate, eaten, eater, latte, matte, state, taste
    • mos* → bosoms, cosmos, booms, bosom, looms, memos, momma, moods, moons, moors

  • 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 → scams, scans, scars, seals, seams, sears, seats, slabs, slaps, slats
    • ?ake? → baker, bakes, caked, cakes, faked, faker, fakes, laker, lakes, maker
    • ?ate? → bates, cater, dated, dates, eaten, eater, fated, gated, gates, hated

  • 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, belated, deleted, related, relates, selected, cellmates, delegated, delegates, delighted
    • ?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, present, preside, pressed, presses
    • 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, lager, laker
    • ?i?al → final, rival, tidal, viral, vital, bridal, primal, spinal, spiral, tribal
    • 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, killing, rifling, sibling, willing, billings, chilling, fillings
    • 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, nineteen, sentence, tenement, deepening, dependent, inference, innkeeper, intervene
    • eeess → essence, seekers, sleeves, sneezes, defenses, deserves, escapees, excesses, expenses, needless
    • eerrr → merrier, terrier, murderer, recorder, referral, referred, reformer, reporter, sorcerer, berserker
    • eesss → messes, senses, blesses, dresses, guesses, presses, tresses, vessels, assessed, baseless

  • 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, bees, beet, begs, belt, bend
    • 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.