6 Letter Word Unscrambler

How to use the tool

1. Type your tiles into the box. Case does not matter, and spaces or punctuation are ignored. A tile row appears below the box so you can check what was read.
2. Type ? for each blank tile. The tool accepts three at most and tells you if it removes an extra one.
3. Watch the summary line. It gives the total and how many words come from the answer list, plus how many need one, two or three blanks.
4. Read the first group, which holds words from this game’s answer list. Then open the second group for the other words on the displayed list. Long groups show 60 words and a button adds more.
5. Add Starts with, Ends with or Contains to cut the list down. You can start the tool with a rack and a filter already applied.

A sample rack: IEGDN?

The tiles are the letters of ENDING, the daily word for puzzle #103 (June 30, 2026). They were shuffled and one was swapped for a blank. Underlined letters come from the blank.

The rack finds 33 words: 2 from the answer list and 31 others. Five tiles cannot spell a six-letter word alone, so every result uses the blank. Without the blank, the rack IEGDNN holds the whole answer and finds only 2 words. Adding the filter Ends with ED to the blank rack leaves 15.

How blank tiles change the count

Each blank widens the result sharply. Each of this game’s 682 answers was used as a six-tile rack, then turned into racks with one, two and three blanks in every possible way. The figures are medians across answers.

• No blanks: the median rack spells 1 word and the mean is 1.9. For 382 answers, or 56.0 percent, the answer is the only word the rack spells.
• One blank: the median is 9.9 words, with 1.3 of them from the answer list.
• Two blanks: the median is 71.6 words and 4.3 come from the answer list.
• Three blanks: the median is 388.9 words, with 18.5 from the answer list. The most productive answer’s racks average 1,054.7.

Each blank multiplies the list by about five to ten, which is why the limit is three. The answer list grows more slowly than the displayed list. Its words make up 56.9 percent of the average result with no blank and only 4.8 percent with three. If you want a guess for this game, read the first group and treat the second as backup.

Narrowing a long list

Three blanks can leave hundreds of words. On the rack IEG??? the tool finds 435 words, 16 of them from the answer list. Filters bring that down fast. Starts with S keeps 26. Ends with ED keeps 47. Contains ING keeps 103. Using both Starts with S and Ends with ED leaves 4.

Use the filters for letters you already know from a game board. A green tile gives you a position, so it fits Starts with or Ends with when it sits at either edge of the word.

Which racks and letters give the most words

A six-tile rack with no blank is an anagram problem. Of the 18,094 displayed words, 14,001 different letter sets exist. 2,761 of them are shared by two or more words, which covers 37.9 percent of all words. Among answers, 44.0 percent have at least one anagram on the displayed list.

The busiest racks are:

• AELRST with 11 words, none of them on the answer list.
• EINRST with 10 words.
• ACEPRS and AELPST with 9 words each.

The answer list also favors different letters. These shares count the words that contain a letter at least once:

• On the displayed list the most common letters are E in 59.7 percent of words, S in 44.1 percent and A in 43.6 percent.
• On the answer list the order is E at 70.4 percent, R at 47.5 and T at 40.0.
• T appears 11.4 points more often in answers than on the displayed list. S appears 8.9 points less often, which fits an answer list with few plurals.

That gives a working order when you have a rack that is one letter short. To find an answer-list word, test T, E and R in the blank first, and check the first group before the second. To find any word on the displayed list, test E, S and A first. Both orders come from the shares above and tell you where hits are most likely, not which letter is right.

How the search works and what it leaves out

At load the tool counts the letters of all 18,094 displayed words once and stores the counts in a single typed array. A search then compares each word’s counts with the rack. A word fits when the letters it is short of do not exceed the number of blanks. Words are shown in list order, with the ones that need fewer blanks first. A search finishes in about a millisecond, so results update while you type.

The displayed list is what remains of an 18,195-word list that descends from Wordnik’s open word list (MIT license) once 101 words that could offend are removed. Credit for the source sits on the About page. The first group is this game’s own answer list of 682 words, which is not an official Wordle list.

The tool only builds six-letter words and does not check any game’s rules. To filter a live board by colors, use the 6 Letter Wordle Helper. For lists sorted by their last letters, see words by ending.

The tool works on your device alone. Tiles are never transmitted, and the page saves nothing.