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Scrabble Word Finder

Enter your rack — ? for a blank tile — and see the highest-scoring plays.

5-letter words 1

  • began8take the first step or steps in carrying out an action

4-letter words 8

  • abbe8a French abbot
  • babe8a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk
  • bang7a vigorous blow
  • bane6something causing misery or death
  • bean6any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food
  • nabe6
  • gaen5
  • gane5

3-letter words 16

  • ebb7a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)
  • bag6a flexible container with a single opening
  • beg6call upon in supplication; entreat
  • gab6light informal conversation for social occasions
  • ban5a decree that prohibits something
  • ben5a mountain or tall hill
  • nab5tag the base runner to get him out
  • neb5a long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head; especially the nose
  • age4how long something has existed
  • eng4
  • gae4
  • gan4separate the seeds from (cotton) with a cotton gin
  • gen4informal term for information
  • nag4someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault
  • ane3used of a single unit or thing; not two or more
  • nae3

2-letter words 9

  • ab4a bachelor's degree in arts and sciences
  • ba4a soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group; found in barite
  • be4a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element
  • ag3a soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal; occurs in argentite and in free form; used in coins and jewelry and tableware and photography
  • ae2
  • an2an associate degree in nursing
  • en2half the width of an em
  • na2a silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group; occurs abundantly in natural compounds (especially in salt water); burns with a yellow flame and reacts violently in water; occurs in sea water and in the mineral halite (rock salt)
  • ne2a colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube; one of the six inert gasses; occurs in the air in small amounts

About the Scrabble word finder

Enter the tiles on your rack and this finds every word you can play from them, ranked by what the tiles are worth. A ? stands for a blank, which can become any letter but scores nothing itself.

Each word shows its face value: the sum of its tile values. Longer is not always better — a short word on the right square often beats a long one on plain squares, which is why the list stays sorted by score rather than by length.

Examples

retinas
256 playable words, best being the seven-letter RETAINS and NASTIER
retina?
one blank opens up KERATIN, FAINTER, HAIRNET and hundreds more
zqxjkbn
an ugly rack — the tool still finds what is playable

Tips

Common questions

How do I enter a blank tile?

Type ? for each blank. Two is the maximum, matching a standard set.

Are these words valid in official play?

They come from ENABLE, which underpins many word games. Tournament play uses TWL or Collins, which differ at the edges — check your game's own dictionary for competition.

Why does a blank score zero?

That is the rule: a blank takes the identity of any letter but carries no point value, in both Scrabble and Words with Friends.