Why we built this site
WordSolverOnline started as a personal project. We play a lot of Scrabble, Words With Friends, Wordle, and daily anagram puzzles, and we kept running into the same problem: most word finders online are painfully slow, buried under pop-ups, and force you to wait for a server round-trip every time you enter a rack of tiles. Worse, many of them quietly send the letters you type off to a remote server. We wanted something better — a solver that runs instantly, works on a phone, respects your privacy, and gives clear, useful answers instead of a wall of clutter.
So we built one. Every tool on this site loads a full dictionary directly into your browser and solves your query on your own device. There is no lookup server, no account, and no letter-by-letter tracking of what you type. Once the dictionary has loaded, most of the tools even work offline.
How the solver actually works
When you open any of our tools, your browser downloads a plain-text word list and builds a fast in-memory index. When you type a rack like retains, the solver generates every combination of your letters, checks each candidate against the dictionary, and returns only the words that are real. It then groups the results by length and, where relevant, ranks them by their official game score. Because all of this happens locally in JavaScript, results appear the moment you stop typing — there is no network delay.
Blank tiles are handled by treating a question mark (?) as a wildcard that can stand in for any single letter. The "must contain" filter narrows results to words that include a specific letter, which is how you find plays that hook onto a tile already sitting on the board. Length filters let you focus on just the two-letter emergency plays or the seven-letter bingos, depending on what your game needs.
The dictionary we use
Our English tools draw on a word list of more than 269,000 entries, assembled from open, permissively licensed word sources and cleaned to remove obvious junk. Our German tools use a separate list of roughly 281,000 words built from an open-source German spelling dictionary. No single official tournament word list is used across every game — Scrabble, Words With Friends, and Wordle each have their own accepted words — so we aim for broad, practical coverage rather than strict tournament compliance. If a word you expect is missing, or one you think is invalid shows up, we genuinely want to hear about it so we can improve the list.
What we believe about word tools
A good solver is a coach, not a crutch. The point of a word finder is not to win every game for you, but to help you learn the high-value letter combinations, the useful short words, and the patterns that make you a stronger player over time. That is why our pages include scoring tables, strategy notes, and tips alongside the raw results — we would rather you understand why QI and ZA are worth knowing than simply hand you the answer and move on.
Free, and how we keep it that way
Everything here is free to use. We cover our hosting costs with a small number of unobtrusive display ads. We do not sell data, we do not require sign-ups, and we do not lock features behind a paywall. If you would like to support the project, simply using the site and telling a friend is more than enough.
Get in touch
Have a suggestion, a missing word, a bug, or an idea for a new tool? Visit our contact page — feedback from players is what shapes this site. You can also read how we handle data on our privacy policy page.