Word game helper: unscramble letters, find words, crack five-letter puzzles
Lexiowl is a set of free word tools built on the public-domain ENABLE word list (172,670 words). Type your letters to get every word they make, or search by pattern, first and last letters or tile colours. Repeated letters and blank tiles are counted exactly, and words in SCOWL size ≤ 50 are marked so frequent words stand out from obscure ones.
Word tools
- Word unscramblerEvery word you can make from your letters, longest first. Use ? for blank tiles.
- Anagram solverWords and two-word phrases that use all of your letters exactly once.
- Word finderFilter by start, end, pattern like c?a?e, letters to include or exclude, and length.
- 5-letter word solverEnter your guesses and colours; see every word that still fits and the best next guess.
- Words that start withAll words beginning with a letter or letters, grouped by length.
- Words that end inAll words ending with a letter or letters – handy for rhymes, suffixes and endings.
- Words with these lettersWords that contain all the letters you choose, in any order, plus any others.
- Rhyming wordsPerfect rhymes from a pronunciation dictionary, grouped by syllables.
- Syllable counterCount syllables in a word, line or poem, using real pronunciations.
- Is it a word?Check whether a word is in our word list and how common it is.
Word lists by length
Guides
- Best starting wordsEvery five-letter word tested as a first guess against the likely answers. RAISE, ARISE and IRATE come out on top.
- 5-letter game strategyOpen with common letters, use the second guess to rule out more, and watch out for repeated letters and word families.
- Repeated lettersWhy one E can be yellow and the other gray, and what that tells you about the answer.
- How anagrams workSort the letters and compare – plus the biggest anagram families and longest anagram pairs in our list.
- Words without vowelsAll 119 words with no A, E, I, O or U, and the 20 that do not even use Y.
- Q without UThe 29 words where Q is not followed by U, from QAT to SHEQALIM.
- Longest wordsThe 28-letter champion, the longest words in SCOWL size ≤ 50, and how word length is distributed.
- Letter frequencyEvery letter counted across our whole list and across common words – useful for word games and puzzles.
- Two-letter wordsThe complete list of 96 two-letter words, and which famous ones are missing from ENABLE.
- How rhymes workPerfect, near and eye rhymes explained with sounds, and why ORANGE really has no perfect rhyme.
- PalindromesAll 101 words that read the same forwards and backwards, from ABA to ROTATOR.
What is in our word list
| Words | 172,670 |
|---|---|
| Common words (SCOWL ≤ 50) | 61,942 |
| Five-letter words | 8,609 |
| Words with pronunciations (for rhymes) | 117,421 |
| Longest word | ETHYLENEDIAMINETETRAACETATES (28 letters) |
Questions people ask
Which word list does Lexiowl use?
ENABLE, a public-domain list of 172,823 English words made for word games, minus 153 slurs and explicit words. Commonness comes from SCOWL. Everything is documented on our word list page.
Is Lexiowl free?
Yes. Every tool is free, needs no account and runs in your browser; what you type is not sent to our server. The site is funded by ads.
Does Lexiowl publish daily puzzle answers?
No. The 5-letter word solver narrows down words from the colours you enter, so you decide how much help you want.