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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Must contain: letters that have to be somewhere in the word, in any position.

✅ Examples

SearchWords found
Pattern C?TCUT, CAT, COT, CIT
Pattern _A_E_485 words, 135 of them common, for example WATER, BASED, LATER, MAKES, GAMES, TAKEN, TAKES, PAPER
Pattern ??INGBEING, 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 PLANETSPENT, STEAL, SLEPT, SLATE, STALE, SLANT, SPELT
Pattern *ING + letters STARSTARING, RATING, STRING, STING, RING, SING
Pattern *OLOGY489 words, 72 of them common, for example BIOLOGY, APOLOGY, ECOLOGY, THEOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY, TECHNOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY

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