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How to play word scramble

A word scramble hands you the letters of a real word in the wrong order — your job is simply to put them back. Every rack of tiles here spells exactly one hidden answer, and on daily puzzles a clue below the rack tells you what kind of word you are hunting for.

A full game takes four moves: read the rack and its clue first, build your answer by tapping tiles, dragging them into the slots, or typing, then shuffle or take a hint whenever a jumble refuses to untangle, and finally work through the whole set — the last solved word stops the timer. Answers check themselves the instant the final slot fills, so there is no submit button to hunt for.

Hints never block progress, but they trade away some of the satisfaction: each one locks a correct letter into place, and Reveal gives up the whole word — a revealed answer is a word you didn't solve, so lean on shuffles first and save hints for genuine dead ends. The full rules, controls, and answers to common questions follow below, and when you're ready, today's puzzle is waiting. Prefer no pressure? Try unlimited puzzles.

How to Play

  1. 1.

    Each puzzle shows a rack of scrambled letter tiles that spell a real English word.

  2. 2.

    Tap, drag, or type letters to build your answer in the slots above the rack.

  3. 3.

    Use the clue if you need a nudge, shuffle the rack for a fresh look, or spend a hint to lock in the next correct letter.

  4. 4.

    When every slot is filled the word checks automatically — solve all the words in the set to finish the puzzle.

FAQ

A new themed daily puzzle is published every day at midnight, US Eastern time. Every past daily stays playable in the archive, and unlimited mode has no daily limit at all.

Difficulty combines word length, how common the word is, repeated letters, and how far the letters move when scrambled. Easy rounds use short familiar words with gentle mixing; hard rounds use longer or rarer words where nothing of the original order survives.

Each hint locks the next correct letter into your answer, starting from the first wrong or empty slot. Reveal shows the whole word if you want to move on. Hints are counted on your results but never blocked.

Some letter sets spell several real words (like melon and lemon). Daily puzzles either accept every valid anagram or include a clue that points at one intended answer, so you are never wrong on a technicality.

Yes — the free generator turns any word list into a puzzle. Add optional clues, pick a difficulty, then print a worksheet with a separate answer key or copy a private link your friends or students can play online.

Yes. The word unscrambler takes up to 15 letters (with up to two ? wildcards) and lists every word they can spell, grouped by length and ranked by how common each word is.

Any modern browser on phone, tablet, or desktop. Letter tiles support tap, drag, and keyboard input, and the whole site works at any zoom level.

Game answers and solver results come from the public-domain ENABLE word list, filtered for family-safe play and ranked with real-world word frequency data. This site is not affiliated with Scrabble, Jumble, Words With Friends, or Wordle.