Anagram Explorer

What is the Anagram Explorer?

The Anagram Explorer lets you play with your letters as visual tiles — drag them into any order, arrange them on a rack to try out words, and get a quick sanity-check on whether a perfect anagram is even possible before you spend too long hunting for one.

This tool was inspired by the letter wheel used on Minute Cryptic, a YouTube channel dedicated to cryptic crosswords. The wheel view in particular mirrors the way letters are arranged in a circle to help unpick anagram clues — a technique popularised by that channel.

How to use it

• Type your letters and press Go to see them appear as tiles.
• Switch between Rack, Floating, and Wheel views to see the tiles in different arrangements.
• Drag tiles down onto the building rack — or click them — to assemble a word in any order.
• Drag tiles within the rack to rearrange them; click a rack tile to return it to the pool.
• Hit Am I wasting my time? to find out whether a perfect anagram of all your letters exists, or how long the best single-word anagram is.

What does “Am I wasting my time?” mean?

It runs a quick dictionary lookup to tell you whether all your letters can be rearranged into a single real word (a perfect anagram), or what the longest word is that can be built from some of those letters. This saves you fruitless searching when no full anagram exists.