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Word Unscrambler uses the English Speller Database (ESDB), formerly SCOWL. Our list contains 78,575 words from American English, size 60, variant level 1. It is a spelling resource, not an official tournament or game dictionary.
We retain lowercase A–Z words with 2–17 letters. Proper names with capitals, accented words, punctuation, abbreviations, and special categories are excluded. Some words may be specialist, archaic, or offensive. There is no content suitability filter.
What a search means
You can enter 15 letter tiles and up to 2 additional blanks. Every letter can be used only as many times as it appears in your rack. A blank (? or *) supplies one missing letter. A word may use some or all tiles by default. Use every tile restricts matches to the full rack length, including blanks. All filters apply together. “Contains” means a consecutive sequence. Includes letters is unordered and counts repeats: ee requires at least two E’s. Excludes letters removes any word with a listed letter. These filters do not supply extra rack tiles. Results are grouped by length, longest first, with A–Z or high-to-low letter points within each group; score ties are alphabetical. Long groups reveal 60 words at a time.
English A–Z input only; accents, non-Latin text, emoji, and Unicode lookalikes are rejected rather than silently changed. Uppercase ASCII is accepted. Spaces between rack letters are ignored.
Fixed-position letter patterns
A pattern such as c_t matches exactly three letters: C, one unknown letter, then T. Underscores each represent one position. Leave the rack empty to search the dictionary by pattern, or supply a rack to require both constraints. Fixed pattern letters do not add rack tiles. A pattern uses 2–17 positions; a conflicting length or another filter can produce no matches. Use every tile requires a rack.
Letter points
Optional points add common English tile values. Blanks score zero; letters supplied by blanks are underlined. When a letter repeats, available letter tiles are assigned first, from left to right. Without a rack, pattern matches receive the normal value of every letter: a pattern underscore is not a zero-point tile. For example, quiz scores 22 with pattern qu_z alone and 11 with rack qu??. There are no board bonuses, multipliers, or game-specific rules.
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Source & reproducibility
Retrieved 27 October 2026 from en-wl/wordlist, v2 snapshot. Source commit: 1e5b7d3a72f47a71da5d28686c1dd4b397178485.
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Upstream notices
Copyright 2000-2026 by Kevin Atkinson Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell any part of the English Speller Database (ESDB, previously known as SCOWLv2), or word lists created from it, is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appears in all copies and that both the above copyright notice and this notice appear in supporting documentation. Kevin Atkinson makes no representations about the suitability of this database for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. ESDB is derived from many sources, most of which are in the Public Domain. Data from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) was also used. All data from COCA comes from 3-gram data that is not freely available; however, the usage is within the rights given by the NDA that was signed when purchasing the data. More information on COCA is available at https://www.english-corpora.org/coca/. The primary source of words for ESDB comes from 12dicts and ENABLE2K. Both are in the Public Domain, but Alan Beale <biljir@pobox.com> deserves special credit as he is the author of 12dicts and a major contributor to ENABLE2K. In addition, he gave me an incredible amount of feedback and created a number of special lists in order to help improve the overall quality of ESDB. === If you are using an official speller dictionary created by ESDB that is not Australian English, then no additional copyright applies and including the notice before the === is sufficient. If you are using the Australian English dictionary or a wordlist that uses the 'D' SPELLING code and/or the 'AU' REGION code, the copyright after '=== AU' applies. If you are using a generated word list larger than 80, the copyright after '=== UKACD' applies. If you are distributing the database or results from the database that is not a speller dictionary or generated word list, then both copyrights may apply depending on the parts you use. In addition, the WordNet copyright MIGHT apply as WordNet was one of many sources used for the initial POS assignment. === AU The initial information for Australian English comes from Benjamin Titze: Copyright 2016 by Benjamin Titze Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute and sell this array, the associated software, and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appears in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation. Benjamin Titze makes no representations about the suitability of this array for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. === UKACD Some words used come from the UK Advanced Cryptics Dictionary: Copyright (c) J Ross Beresford 1993-1999. All Rights Reserved. The following restriction is placed on the use of this publication: if The UK Advanced Cryptics Dictionary is used in a software package or redistributed in any form, the copyright notice must be prominently displayed and the text of this document must be included verbatim. There are no other restrictions: I would like to see the list distributed as widely as possible. === WordNet WordNet was used to help with the initial POS assignment: This software and database is being provided to you, the LICENSEE, by Princeton University under the following license. By obtaining, using and/or copying this software and database, you agree that you have read, understood, and will comply with these terms and conditions.: Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software and database and its documentation for any purpose and without fee or royalty is hereby granted, provided that you agree to comply with the following copyright notice and statements, including the disclaimer, and that the same appear on ALL copies of the software, database and documentation, including modifications that you make for internal use or for distribution. WordNet 1.6 Copyright 1997 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. THIS SOFTWARE AND DATABASE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND PRINCETON UNIVERSITY MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. BY WAY OF EXAMPLE, BUT NOT LIMITATION, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF MERCHANT- ABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR THAT THE USE OF THE LICENSED SOFTWARE, DATABASE OR DOCUMENTATION WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY THIRD PARTY PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS, TRADEMARKS OR OTHER RIGHTS. The name of Princeton University or Princeton may not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software and/or database. Title to copyright in this software, database and any associated documentation shall at all times remain with Princeton University and LICENSEE agrees to preserve same.