Word Finder
The word finder searches our list of 268,311 English words in three ways at once: by a pattern with the letters you know, by the letters you have, and by letters the word must contain. Use any one of them, or combine them to narrow the list down. Common words come first and are shown in bold.
✅ How to use the word finder
- Pattern: type the letters you know and a ? (or _) for each unknown letter, for example C?T or _A_E_. A * stands for any number of letters: *ING finds words ending in ING, RE* finds words starting with RE.
- Letters you have: type your tiles or rack. The finder shows only words made of these letters plus the letters of the pattern, which are already on the board. A ? is a blank tile.
- Must contain: letters that have to be somewhere in the word, in any position.
✅ Examples
| Search | Words found |
|---|---|
| Pattern C?T | CUT, CAT, COT, CIT |
| Pattern _A_E_ | 485 words, 135 of them common, for example WATER, BASED, LATER, MAKES, GAMES, TAKEN, TAKES, PAPER |
| Pattern ??ING | BEING, GOING, THING, DOING, USING, BRING, LYING, DYING, SWING, AGING |
| Pattern _R_S_ | PRESS, TRUST, CROSS, FRESH, DRESS, CRASH, GROSS, TRASH, GRASS, BRUSH |
| Pattern S???? + letters PLANET | SPENT, STEAL, SLEPT, SLATE, STALE, SLANT, SPELT |
| Pattern *ING + letters STAR | STARING, RATING, STRING, STING, RING, SING |
| Pattern *OLOGY | 489 words, 72 of them common, for example BIOLOGY, APOLOGY, ECOLOGY, THEOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY, TECHNOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY |
✅ For crosswords, Wordle and tile games
- Crosswords: type the letters from the crossing answers and a ? for each empty square. The finder shows every word that fits the grid, common ones first.
- Wordle: put the green letters in the pattern and the yellow ones in “Must contain”. For all the clues at once, including gray letters, the Wordle Solver is faster.
- Tile games: type your rack in “Letters you have” and the letters on the board in the pattern. The small number after each word is its score with the classic letter values.
Our list is not the official dictionary of any board game, so a tournament list may differ, and offensive words are left out. More tools: Unscramble, the Anagram Solver, Words With Letters, the Jumble Solver and the lists of 5 letter words. Take a break with Wordle Unlimited.




















































