Everyone who plays Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle hits the same wall sooner or later: seven tiles that won't make a word, or a Wordle row with two yellows and no idea what's left. Most word finders will happily show you 300 results, starting with words nobody has ever said out loud.

So we built UnscrambleKey, a set of free word tools that show the words you actually know first.

What the site does

  • The word unscrambler. Type up to 15 letters, use _ or a space for a blank tile, and the words appear as you type, grouped by length. Each word carries its Scrabble or Words With Friends score. Filters for starts with, ends with, contains and length sit right under the rack.
  • The anagram solver. Words that use every letter exactly once, so LISTEN gives you SILENT, ENLIST, TINSEL and INLETS.
  • The Wordle solver. Type your guesses, set each tile to green, yellow or grey the way Wordle showed it, and you get every word that's still possible and the ten best next guesses. If two clues contradict each other, it tells you which.
  • A word finder, a pattern solver for crossword gaps like _A_E_, a Words With Friends helper, a jumble solver and a word scramble game.
  • Word lists. Every 2- to 8-letter word, the 5-letter words that matter most for Wordle, and a page of 5-letter words for each starting letter.

Tap any result to see which of your tiles it uses and its points letter by letter. Every result list can be saved as a PDF.

What's inside

The dictionary is the public-domain ENABLE word list, about 168,000 words, the same family of list many word games use. On top of it, a frequency list marks which words are common, and those come first in every group, in bold. Offensive words are hidden unless you switch them on. The sitemap has 43 pages: eight tools, nine list pages and 26 letter pages.

Who it's for

  • Scrabble and Words With Friends players stuck on a rack.
  • Wordle players who want to check their thinking, not just get the answer.
  • Crossword and jumble solvers with a few letters and a gap.

A note on how it's built

It's a Next.js site on Vercel with no accounts and no database. The word data is split into small files by length and loads in the background, so searching runs in your browser and stays fast. Your letters never leave the page.

What's next

More word lists and a few more game-specific helpers. If there's a game you'd like covered, tell us in the comments.

Try it at UnscrambleKey.

This post was written with AI assistance.