Key findings
- The world's favorite anagram is EARTH → HEART. Between July 5 and October 14, 2026, searches for an anagram of EARTH brought up Unscramble ME in 89 countries, more than any other word.
- CONSERVATION and CONVERSATION are the longest everyday anagrams, at 12 letters. In the Scrabble word lists, anagrams run to 15 letters, the width of the board: ALGORITHMICALLY and LOGARITHMICALLY.
- Seven tiles, A E I P R S T, make 365 words in Collins Scrabble Words, more than any other rack, PIRATES and PARTIES among them. In North America's NWL2023 the richest rack is A E O P R S T, with 305.
The anagrams the world searches for
Between July 5 and October 14, 2026, Google showed Unscramble ME 565,601 times to people searching for anagrams, such as "earth anagram" or "anagram of listen", in 226 countries and territories. These are the words people looked up most:
| Word | Its anagrams | Times shown | Countries |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAPER | RECAP, PACER, CRAPE | 3,275 | 68 |
| EARTH | HEART, HATER, RATHE | 3,135 | 89 |
| SCRAMBLE | CLAMBERS, CAMBRELS, SCAMBLER | 2,898 | 77 |
| STARE | RATES, TEARS, ASTER | 2,650 | 69 |
| GOLDEN | LONGED, DONGLE | 2,638 | 84 |
| WARDEN | WARNED, WANDER, DAWNER | 2,437 | 76 |
| URSINE | INSURE, INURES, URINES | 2,129 | 26 |
| CINEMA | ICEMAN, ANEMIC | 2,039 | 67 |
| BOAST | BOATS, SABOT, BOTAS | 1,987 | 74 |
| COURSE | SOURCE, CROUSE, CEROUS | 1,930 | 78 |
EARTH reached the most countries (89), ahead of GOLDEN (84) and COURSE (78).
The longest anagrams
Among everyday words, the record is 12 letters: CONSERVATION and CONVERSATION. The next longest:
- 11 letters: DESCRIPTION / PREDICTIONS, PERMISSIONS / IMPRESSIONS, COORDINATES / DECORATIONS, CALLIGRAPHY / GRAPHICALLY
- 10 letters: DIRECTIONS / DISCRETION, PERMISSION / IMPRESSION, LEADERSHIP / DEALERSHIP, REPRESENTS / PRESENTERS
The Scrabble word lists stop at 15 letters, the width of the board, and their longest anagrams are 15 letters long. Collins Scrabble Words has 33 sets of them and NWL2023 has 17, among them ELECTROMAGNETIC and MAGNETOELECTRIC, and PHOTOMICROGRAPH and MICROPHOTOGRAPH. Only one 15-letter set has four words, in Collins: GRAMOPHONICALLY, MONOGRAPHICALLY, NOMOGRAPHICALLY and PHONOGRAMICALLY.
The letters that make the most words
For each length, the set of letters that spells the most different words when you use every letter. Everyday words are words in both Scrabble lists that are also among the 30,000 most common words in English text.
| Length | Everyday words | Collins Scrabble Words | NWL2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | EAT, TEA, ATE, ETA, TAE | 5: A E T, e.g. EAT, TEA, ATE | 5: A E T, e.g. EAT, TEA, ATE |
| 4 | POST, STOP, SPOT, TOPS, POTS (+2 more sets of 5) | 10: A E S T, e.g. EAST, SEAT, EATS | 9: A E S T, e.g. EAST, SEAT, EATS |
| 5 | LEAST, TALES, STEAL, SLATE, TESLA, STALE | 13: A E R S T, e.g. RATES, TEARS, STARE | 12: A E P R S, e.g. SPARE, PARSE, SPEAR |
| 6 | SPREAD, PADRES, PARSED, SPARED (+4 more sets of 4) | 12: A E L R S T, e.g. ALERTS, SLATER, ALTERS | 11: A E L R S T, e.g. ALERTS, SLATER, ALTERS |
| 7 | RELATED, ALTERED, ALERTED (+14 more sets of 3) | 11: A E G I N S T, e.g. SEATING, TEASING, EASTING | 9: A E I N R S T, e.g. RETAINS, NASTIER, STAINER |
| 8 | RELATING, INTEGRAL, TRIANGLE, ALTERING, ALERTING | 11: A E G I N R S T, e.g. GRANITES, GANTRIES, ANGRIEST | 9: A E G I N R S T, e.g. GRANITES, GANTRIES, ANGRIEST |
| 9 | EDUCATION, CAUTIONED (+24 more sets of 2) | 6: A C E E I N R S T, e.g. CISTERNAE, NECTARIES, CENTIARES | 5: A C E I N O R S T, e.g. REACTIONS, CREATIONS, ACTIONERS |
The standout is A E G I L N R T: five everyday words, RELATING, INTEGRAL, TRIANGLE, ALTERING and ALERTING. Among Scrabble words, five letters go furthest: A E R S T and A E P R S each spell 13 words in Collins.
The richest rack in Scrabble
A Scrabble rack holds seven tiles. We checked all 346,104 racks that can be made from the 18 most useful letters, repeats allowed, and counted every word of 2 to 7 letters each one can spell.
The winner in Collins Scrabble Words is A E I P R S T, with 365 words: 20 of 2 letters, 71 of 3 letters, 115 of 4 letters, 112 of 5 letters, 39 of 6 letters and 8 of 7 letters, among them PIRATES, PARTIES, TRAIPSE, PASTIER. In NWL2023, the list used in the US and Canada, it is A E O P R S T, with 305 words, including SEAPORT and PROTEAS.
| Rank | Collins rack | Words | NWL2023 rack | Words |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A E I P R S T | 365 | A E O P R S T | 305 |
| 2 | A E O P R S T | 359 | A E I L R S T | 293 |
| 3 | A E I N R S T | 358 | A E I P R S T | 293 |
| 4 | A E I L R S T | 350 | A E L P R S T | 292 |
| 5 | A E L P R S T | 347 | A E I N R S T | 281 |
Quiz
Five questions for a quiz night or a radio break. Open one for the answer.
1. Which planet is an anagram of a part of the body?
EARTH and HEART, the anagram people search for in more countries than any other.
2. Rearrange CONVERSATION into a word about protecting nature.
CONSERVATION: at 12 letters, the longest pair of everyday anagrams.
3. Five everyday words use exactly the letters A E G I L N R T. Can you find them?
4. What do PIRATES and PARTIES have in common?
The same seven letters, A E I P R S T: the rack that makes more Scrabble words than any other, 365 in Collins.
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How we made it
Word lists. NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words and ENABLE, as Unscramble ME uses them: words of 2 to 15 letters (see How It Works). An anagram uses every letter exactly once. NWL2023 and Collins are licensed lists, so we show counts and short examples.
Everyday words. Words in both Scrabble lists that are among the 30,000 most common words in Peter Norvig's English word counts, from a trillion words of web text. Adult words are left out.
The richest rack. Every 7-tile rack from the letters E, A, I, O, R, S, T, N, L, C, D, U, P, M, G, H, B and Y, repeats allowed (346,104 racks), each counted against NWL2023 and Collins.
Searches. Google Search Console for unscramble.me, all countries, July 5, 2026 to October 14, 2026: searches such as "earth anagram", "anagram of earth" or "anagrams for earth", for real words that have at least one anagram. "Times shown" is how often Google showed Unscramble ME for them, and "countries" how many countries that happened in.
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