From letters to answers
- You type the letters you have, for example the seven tiles on your rack.
- We look for every word of 2 to 15 letters, in any of the three lists below, that can be spelled with those letters, using each letter no more times than you typed it.
- The words are grouped by length, longest first, and each one shows its points in Scrabble and in Words With Friends.
- A table on the page shows which games accept the word you typed and how many of the answers each game accepts, and names the answers a game does not.
The three word lists
| Game | Word list | Words | Used for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scrabble US | NWL2023 (NASPA Word List 2023) | 196,601 | Tournament and club play in the United States and Canada |
| Scrabble UK | Collins Scrabble Words | 280,887 | Tournament and club play in the UK and most other countries |
| Words With Friends | ENABLE | 168,551 | The public word list the game was built on |
Counts are words of 2 to 15 letters. A word is an answer if at least one list has it. Collins is the largest list: it has all but 3,698 of the NWL2023 words, plus about 88,000 words NWL2023 does not have, so a word can be fine in Scrabble UK and not in Scrabble US. Lists also differ on short words: QI is in both Scrabble lists, for example, but not in ENABLE.
Words With Friends adds and removes words of its own over time, so for that game our check tells you whether a word is in the list the game started from, not whether today's game accepts it.
How points are counted
Points are the sum of the letters' tile values in each game, without bonus squares, so they compare words fairly before you place them on the board. The two games value some letters differently (marked *):
| Letter | Scrabble | Words With Friends |
|---|---|---|
| A | 1 | 1 |
| B | 3 | 4 * |
| C | 3 | 4 * |
| D | 2 | 2 |
| E | 1 | 1 |
| F | 4 | 4 |
| G | 2 | 3 * |
| H | 4 | 3 * |
| I | 1 | 1 |
| J | 8 | 10 * |
| K | 5 | 5 |
| L | 1 | 2 * |
| M | 3 | 4 * |
| Letter | Scrabble | Words With Friends |
|---|---|---|
| N | 1 | 2 * |
| O | 1 | 1 |
| P | 3 | 4 * |
| Q | 10 | 10 |
| R | 1 | 1 |
| S | 1 | 1 |
| T | 1 | 1 |
| U | 1 | 2 * |
| V | 4 | 5 * |
| W | 4 | 4 |
| X | 8 | 8 |
| Y | 4 | 3 * |
| Z | 10 | 10 |
12 of the 26 letters are worth different points in the two games.
The rest of each page
- Meanings: short meanings for the best-scoring answers, when we have one.
- Neighbor words: other sets of letters you get by trading one tile, each with its own page.
- One extra tile: longer words you could make if you drew one more letter.
What changed and when
- October 20, 2026: answers come from the three lists above, and each page shows which games accept each word.
- October 16, 2026: free word scramble worksheets with answer keys.
See it on your own letters: the letter unscrambler on the home page shows every word in seconds. To work a scramble out by hand, read how to unscramble words, and for the anagrams people look up most, see popular anagrams.
Found a mistake?
If a word is missing, shown wrongly, or scored wrongly, write to hello@unscramble.me with the letters you typed and the word. We check it against the three lists and fix what is ours to fix.