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Whether you're a crossword buff, an all-star Scrabble® player or just a fan of all-around wordplay, Wolfram|Alpha has something fun and useful to fuel your hobby. Compute anagrams from any given word, find words containing a given pattern or collection of letters, compute possible solutions to tricky crossword puzzles and explore rhymes, acronyms and much more.

Anagrams

Compute anagrams and letter banks from any word or phrase.

Find anagrams of a word or phrase:

anagrams trace
anagrams pepsi cola

Find letter-bank words:

letter bank tale

Scrabble®

Generate possible words and calculate word scores from any set of random letters.

Calculate Scrabble® scores for a word and its subsets:

Scrabble xylophone

Find words matching Scrabble® tiles on a rack:

scrabble aatsgre
words with qsp

Cryptograms

Compute possible solutions to any simple cryptogram.

Find possible decodings of a cryptogram:

cryptograms krkrpl

Crosswords

Solve tricky crossword puzzles with easy-to-use pattern matching and commonly used clues.

Find words matching a pattern:

t_n
_al__la__

Find words meeting certain specifications:

words starting with tric
words ending with ager
words that start with d and end with d

Find crossword puzzle clues for a given word:

ahoy crossword puzzle clues

Rhyming Words

Find rhymes for words in English.

Find rhyming words:

words that rhyme with demand

Acronyms

Explore possible meanings of common acronyms.

Learn what an acronym stands for:

acronym WHO
acronym USSS
acronym ACE

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    • Letter Combinations

    Determine words containing a set of letters.

    Find words found within a specified set of letters:

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    word subsets aelrstt

    Find words containing a set of letters, in order, only those letters or at least those letters:

    words containing late
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