Scrabble Word Finder

How to read the results

Each word appears as a small tile with its Scrabble score in the corner. By default the list is sorted by score, highest first, so the strongest play for your rack is always at the top. Switch to Length to see your longest possible words first (useful for a bingo, the 50-point bonus for playing all seven tiles at once), or A–Z if you're scanning for a specific word. Click any word and it's copied to your clipboard, ready to paste into a chat with your opponent or into whatever digital board you're playing on.

A word with a dashed border used at least one of your blank tiles to complete it. That matters for scoring: a real blank is worth 0 points no matter which letter it stands in for, and the score shown here already accounts for that: it isn't just the dictionary's flat letter-value total. See the examples page for a worked walkthrough of exactly how that's calculated.

Your rack letters and sort choice are remembered locally in your own browser, so they're still there the next time you open this page. Nothing is sent to a server to make that happen; see the privacy page for the full detail on exactly what is and isn't stored.

Rack letters vs. a fixed word pattern

This tool answers a different question than a crossword-style "fill in the blanks" solver: instead of asking which word fits a set of known letters at known positions, it asks which words your current rack can build at all, in any position, using any subset of your tiles. That's the actual shape of a Scrabble turn: you're never required to use every letter on your rack, and the letters have no fixed order until you place them on the board. If you already know some letters are fixed on the board and you're looking for what fills the gaps around them instead, that's a related but different tool; the word list page explains the dictionary behind both use cases.

Advanced filters, when you need them

A short rack rarely needs filtering: five or six letters already produces a manageable list. A long rack (12, 14, 15 letters) can return hundreds of valid words, which is exactly when the Advanced filters panel earns its keep. Starts with and Ends with narrow the list to words that begin or finish with specific letters (useful when you're trying to build off a letter already on the board). Contains finds every word that includes a substring anywhere, handy for checking whether your rack can reach a particular open square through a required letter. Exact length restricts the list to one specific word length, for example when you have exactly six empty squares to fill.

What the dictionary does and doesn't cover

Every result comes from a single, openly licensed 76,266-word English dictionary built from the SCOWL project (see the word list page for the full sourcing and licensing detail): every word is 3 to 15 letters long, so it won't offer the two-letter words (like "qi" or "za") that official Scrabble dictionaries include, and it isn't the same list as an official tournament dictionary such as the North American OSPD/NWL or the international Collins Scrabble Words (CSW). It's a strong, honest starting point for checking whether a word is plausible; if a specific play has to be tournament-legal, cross-check it against whichever official list your game actually uses.

Works for Scrabble, Words With Friends racks, and similar tile games

The underlying question, "which real English words can I build from this set of letters?", is the same one behind Words With Friends, Wordfeud, and word-tile puzzle apps, even though those games use their own scoring and dictionary rules. The rack input and subset matching here work the same way regardless of which tile game sent you looking for an answer; only the point values shown are standard Scrabble letter values, listed in full below.

Standard Scrabble letter values

These are the point values used to score every result on this page. A standard Scrabble set has 100 tiles total: 98 letter tiles plus 2 blanks worth 0 points each.

Board multiplier squares (double/triple letter, double/triple word) aren't part of this tool: they depend on where a word actually lands on your specific board, which this rack-only search has no way to know. The score shown here is always the word's base letter total on an empty board, exactly as a dictionary or a plain letter-value lookup would report it.

Vowel-heavy and consonant-heavy racks

Two rack shapes come up constantly and both are worth a deliberate approach rather than staring at the tiles:

Too many vowels (three or more A/E/I/O/U on a 7-tile rack): type the rack as-is first: words built almost entirely from vowels do exist ("eerie", "adieu", "aureole"), and the finder will surface them even when they're easy to miss by eye. If nothing useful appears, try removing one vowel at a time and re-checking; a rack that looks vowel-heavy often has a perfectly good word hiding once a single extra vowel is set aside for a later turn.

Too many consonants (four or more of the same few letters, especially duplicates): search the rack with a wildcard swapped in for one consonant to see what a vowel there would unlock, since that tells you whether it's worth exchanging tiles versus playing something short now to draw fresh letters. Duplicate high-value consonants (two Cs, two Ps) are also worth checking against the Contains filter specifically for that letter, since it's easy to overlook a word that uses a repeated letter twice.

Reading your rack for hidden plays

A few habits turn a rack that looks unplayable into a genuine scoring opportunity:

• Search the whole rack before committing to a short word. It's easy to spot a quick 3-letter play and stop looking; typing the full rack here surfaces every longer word hiding in the same letters at the same time, so you can compare before deciding.
• Try the rack with one letter removed. If nothing good turns up, clearing a single vowel or a common consonant (backspace one character) and watching the results change can reveal a word that needed a different subset of your tiles.
• Use a wildcard on a stuck rack. If your real rack has an awkward letter combination, typing a "?" in place of it shows what becomes possible with a blank there, useful for deciding in advance whether playing a blank tile is worth it before you commit one on the actual board.
• Sort by length when you suspect a bingo. Playing all 7 tiles from your rack in a single turn earns a 50-point bonus on top of the word's own score, so it's worth deliberately checking the "Length" sort on a fresh 7-letter rack even if the top-scoring word by points alone is shorter.
• Check the two-letter neighbours before you play a word. A word that also happens to form new, valid short words in each direction it touches on the board keeps your options open on the following turn.

Using the finder mid-game versus between games

The two most common reasons people reach for a rack tool are different enough to be worth naming. Mid-game, you already have specific empty squares to fill and a limited set of letters, so the Advanced filters (starts with / ends with / exact length) tend to matter more than browsing the full results list: you know roughly what shape the word needs to be, and you're using the finder to confirm a specific candidate is real rather than to discover options from scratch. Between games, whether that's studying, settling a dispute about whether a word someone just played is valid, or simply exploring what a tricky letter combination can do, the plain sorted list without filters is usually more useful, since the goal is to see everything a rack can produce rather than narrow toward one answer.

Both uses share the same underlying search, so there's nothing to switch between beyond which controls you reach for.

A note on fairness and how this tool is meant to be used

Whether checking a rack against a dictionary counts as "cheating" depends entirely on the house rules of the game you're in. Plenty of casual games are played with an explicit understanding that a dictionary or word finder is fair game, especially for settling whether a played word is valid in the first place. Competitive or tournament Scrabble is a different context, with its own rules about what tools are and aren't permitted during a game; this site doesn't have a position on that beyond pointing out the distinction, since it's a rule for the players and the specific event to agree on, not something a general-purpose tool can decide for you.