Anagram Generator

Type a word or phrase. Get new phrases that use every letter, best first.

How the anagram generator works

The generator counts the letters you typed, then searches for combinations of words that use every letter exactly once. It tries long words first, so results with fewer words appear before results with many short words. Spaces, capitals and punctuation in your phrase are ignored; only the letters count.

Results update as you type and are grouped by word count: single-word anagrams first, if there are any, then two-word phrases, then three-word phrases. A short count above the list tells you how many it found.

Worked example: DORMITORY

Type DORMITORY and, with the default of 1 to 3 words, the generator finds 18 phrases that use all 9 letters: 3 with 2 words and 15 with 3 words. The best one is dirty room. Now tap ROOM in any result. It moves to Must include, and the generator rearranges only the letters left over (D, I, T, R, Y). That leaves 2 phrases: room dirty and room dry it. Keeping a word is the quickest way to steer the generator toward the phrase you have in mind.

How results are ranked

Plenty of letter combinations are technically anagrams but read like nonsense. To keep those out of the way, the generator builds phrases from 34,401 common words and scores every result. Phrases with fewer words come first. Within each group, a phrase scores by how often its words are used in everyday English, according to the open wordfreq project: 7 parts the average of its words and 3 parts its least common word. So one obscure word pulls an otherwise natural phrase down the list.

Options

• Fewest and most words: 1 to 5 words per anagram (default 1 to 3).
• Must include: words that every anagram keeps. Tapping a word in the results adds it here.
• Leave out: words you never want to see.
• Shortest word: hide two-letter words if results look choppy.
• Word lengths: for crossword clues such as (3, 5).

Worked example: word lengths

THE MORSE CODE makes 1,169 anagrams of up to 3 words. If a clue tells you the answer has an 8-letter word and a 4-letter word, type 8,4 in Word lengths. Only 4 remain, led by escorted home, and each one is shown in the order you asked for.

Long phrases

You can type up to 30 letters. Each extra letter adds many more possible combinations, so for long phrases the generator searches for a short, fixed time and keeps at most 5,000 results. When it stops early, it says "Showing the best" and suggests how to narrow the search; when it hits the limit, the count reads 5,000+. Adding a word you like, or lowering the most words allowed, gets you to good phrases faster than scrolling.

Why a phrase you expected is missing

Phrases are built only from the common-word list, so a rare word that the solver accepts may never appear here. Your own words are left out too: a result that is just the phrase you typed in a different order, such as CODE MORSE THE, is not an anagram worth showing. If a phrase you know is missing, check that it uses exactly the same letters, then try allowing more words or setting Shortest word back to two letters.

Tips

• Start with the default of up to 3 words; allow more only if nothing fits.
• Set Shortest word to 3 letters to hide phrases full of tiny words.
• Press Enter to search right away instead of waiting for the short pause after typing.
• Use Leave out for a word that keeps coming back but does not suit you.
• Need a single word instead? The anagram solver lists every word in your letters.
• Making an anagram of a name to share? The anagram maker turns it into an image.