Word scramble solver
You have a scrambled word and you want to know what it says. Type the letters exactly as your puzzle prints them and the answer comes back on its own, with backups underneath if more than one word fits.
Type the tiles in any order. Letters only, no blanks.
Solving a printed scramble
Enter the letters in the order they appear on the page. Rearranging them in your head first is where most wrong answers begin.
Six printed tiles means a six-letter answer. Anything shorter is a different puzzle, which is why nothing here trims your letters down.
In Jumble-style grids, certain positions feed the final phrase. Note which letters land in circled slots before you move on to the next scramble.
Every scramble and the punchline are already worked out on our daily Jumble answer page, updated each morning.
About this scramble solver
A word scramble is a promise: the setter took one real word, shuffled its letters, and printed the result. Nothing was added or removed. So the search is narrow by design. The solver counts your letters, looks only at dictionary words of that same length, and keeps the ones whose letter counts match yours exactly. Most puzzles have precisely one survivor, which is why the answer gets its own line rather than a place in a list.
Everything happens on your device against a 277,000-word list, and only the slice for your letter count is downloaded. That keeps the wait short even on a phone with a newspaper folded on the table next to it.
Two neighbours may suit you better depending on the puzzle. The word unscrambler is the one for racks, tiles, and any case where the answer is allowed to use just some of your letters. The anagram solver runs the identical exact-length search but presents the whole family of rearrangements at once, which is what you want when you are hunting for wordplay rather than a puzzle answer.
Scramble questions
My scramble is longer than eight letters. Will it still work?
It will. Four to eight letters is simply where printed scrambles cluster, and the solver accepts anything from three up to fifteen. Long entries actually behave better, because the more letters a puzzle gives you the less room there is for a second word to fit them.
Two words came back. Which one is the puzzle answer?
Read the puzzle around it. Newspaper scrambles are usually built so the intended word is the more everyday one, and the cartoon or clue beside the grid points at a subject. If circled letters feed a later puzzle, try each candidate in that final line and keep whichever produces a sensible phrase.
Can it solve the final Jumble line with the circled letters?
Only partly. That stage is a phrase of two or more words, and this solver returns single words. Type the circled letters here to see what individual words they hold, then assemble the phrase yourself. The finished punchline is written out on our daily Jumble answer page if you would rather just read it.
Are plurals, past tenses, and proper nouns included?
Plurals and inflected forms are in, since the dictionary carries the full family of most words. Capitalised names, brands, and places are out. If your puzzle is themed around a name, expect the solver to shrug and the crossword-style tools to serve you better.
Nothing matched at all. What now?
The usual culprit is a mistyped or misread letter, so check the printed tiles once more, watching for a lookalike pair such as I and l or O and 0. If the letters are right and still nothing lands, the answer is probably two words. Send the same letters through the word unscrambler, which lists every partial word, and pair two results that together use everything.
Today's game hints
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