Free Word Solver & Word Games Online

AnyWordSolver is four different things living under one address. They share a word list and a daily-puzzle clock, but they are used in completely different ways. Here is the honest map, so you can go straight to the part you came for.

1. Word solvers

You have letters, or a rack, or a grid, and you want the words. These tools take what you already know and give it back organised: every valid word that can be built from a set of letters, sorted by length and scored where scoring matters. The Word Finder is the general-purpose one, and the Anagram Solver, Scrabble Solver and Word Search Solver are the same engine pointed at a specific puzzle. Nothing is stored, nothing is sent anywhere — the lookup happens in your browser.

2. Daily-game hints

A new puzzle drops at midnight US Eastern and you are stuck. These pages give you graded help instead of the answer on arrival: a first nudge, then a stronger one, then the full solution only if you ask for it. That ordering is deliberate — the point is to get you unstuck, not to end your game. The pages cover Contexto, Connections, Strands, Spelling Bee, Quordle, Octordle, Dordle, Jumble, Globle, Semantle and the three newer formats, Clueword, Chainword and Squareword.

3. Word lists

If you are building your own puzzle, writing a solver, or just want the plain data, the lists are here in full. The five-letter list is the most complete: 12,478 valid five-letter words, plus a curated pool of 1,170 everyday answers used as secret words and clue sources. Behind that sits a general dictionary of 267,751 words, loaded in the browser as a single file rather than fetched word by word.

4. Puzzle games

The largest part of the site, and the part most people arrive for. Daily word games, grid logic puzzles and number-and-arcade classics, each with a fresh board every day and its own Top 50 board. If you want to browse rather than search, start at the word games hub, the logic puzzles hub or the number games hub.

All of it is the same deal: open a page, play immediately, no download and no account. The only thing that asks you for anything is the optional leaderboard.

Five steps, and you can skip any of them. Most people only ever need steps one and two.

1. Decide what kind of help you need. Stuck on today's puzzle, or looking for a word from a set of letters? Those are different parts of the site. Puzzles and their hints live under Word Games; letter lookups live under Word Finder.
2. Give the tool what it needs. For a solver, that is usually the letters you have — type them in any order, add an optional blank tile, and press solve. For a hint page, it is nothing at all: the board for today is already selected when the page loads.
3. Take the smallest nudge that works. On the hint pages the help is layered, and you open one layer at a time. Start at the top. If the first hint gets you there, you never see the answer.
4. Play the game itself if that is what you came for. Every daily puzzle on this site is playable in full from your browser, at any grid size, with practice rounds that never touch your daily score.
5. Post a score only if you want to. Finishing a daily puzzle offers a leaderboard entry. That is the single moment the site asks you to sign in, and if you skip it nothing is recorded and nothing changes about your game.

If a tool gives you an empty result, that is a real answer, not a failure — it means no word in the list fits. That is most often a sign that a tile is missing from what you typed.

Most visits are one of these five. Find the row that matches your situation and go straight there.

• You are stuck on today's puzzle and want help, not the answer. Open the game's own hints page. Contexto, Connections, Strands, Spelling Bee, Quordle, Octordle, Dordle, Jumble, Globle and Semantle all have one, and each gives the light hint before the heavy one.
• You are holding letters and want every word in them. Use the Anagram Solver for a pure unscramble, or the Scrabble Solver if the letters are on a rack and the score matters.
• You want to play rather than solve. Pick a daily board from Word Games if you enjoy letters, or Logic Puzzles if you enjoy grids. Both are new every day and neither asks you to sign up.
• You want to see how you did. Today's leaderboards shows the top three on every board at once. Posting a score is optional and takes one sign-in.
• You are on a locked-down or slow network. The unblocked games page lists the games built specifically for that: browser-only, no install, no login, and lightweight enough to load on a filtered connection.

Seven destinations, and each one answers a different question. If you only remember one row, remember the one that matches the tab you are holding.

Two things cut across all seven. Every page is reachable without an account, and every daily board resets at the same moment — midnight US Eastern — so a score from one section means the same thing as a score from another.

It is easier to say what a site will not do when it is written down. Four things we will not do:

• We do not publish daily answers we cannot verify. Where an answer comes from an external feed we can check, we say so and we refresh it automatically. Where it does not, we generate it from a dated seed so that the puzzle is identical for every player, and we do not claim it is an official answer from any publisher. The five-letter word game archive, for example, is built from a verified answer feed and covers 1,994 dated entries from June 2021 onward.
• We do not require an account. There is no sign-up wall, no email gate and no trial period. Every game and every solver on this site works the moment the page loads, with nothing to create and nothing to verify.
• There is no paywall on results. A solver returns the full list or it does not run at all. There is no locked tier, no "unlock more words" prompt and no upsell between you and an answer you already paid nothing for.
• We do not sell anything. No accounts means no email list to sell, no mailing list, no affiliate links dressed up as recommendations. The site runs on ads.

The trade-off is honest too: ads appear on the page, and they are the reason the tools can stay free. The privacy policy explains exactly what that involves.

Every daily puzzle on this site is picked from a fixed word pool using the calendar date as the seed. The shared script that does it reads today's date in the US Eastern time zone, converts it to a number, and uses that number to choose an index into the pool. The same date always produces the same puzzle, so you and a stranger on the other side of the world are solving the identical board — which is the only reason a leaderboard means anything.

Two details follow from that. First, the reset is at midnight US Eastern, and it stays there across daylight-saving changes because the date is read through a time-zone-aware formatter rather than your device clock. Second, the board does not change while you are in the middle of it: if you close the tab at 11:50pm and come back at 12:05am, you have a new puzzle, and if you come back at 11:55pm you have the old one, still solved exactly as you left it.

Nothing here needs an app, and nothing here needs a fast connection. These are the details worth knowing before you start, especially if you are playing on a device you do not control.

• Almost everything works with a keyboard or a finger, but not every control supports both. The sliding-tile game takes arrow keys, WASD, a mouse drag or a swipe. The guessing games take typed letters or the on-screen keyboard. Sudoku takes typed digits as well as the number pad. A few of the newer grid puzzles are pointer-first and are played by tapping rather than by typing.
• Pages are plain files. Each page is ordinary HTML with its styles and logic shipped alongside it. There is no build step, no framework and no server rendering, which is why a page starts working before it has finished loading the things below it.
• Your letters are not sent anywhere. The word lists are bundled with the page and searched on your device, so a lookup works at the same speed on a slow connection as on a fast one, and nothing you typed leaves the browser.
• A visited page will usually reopen without a connection. The site registers a small service worker that caches pages you have already visited. That does not make it an offline app — a page you have never opened still needs the network — but a board you played yesterday is likely still there on a train.
• The leaderboard is the one part that needs a live connection. It is a separate optional service. If it cannot be reached, the board section hides itself and the puzzle you were playing carries on unaffected.
• Ads are the reason there is no bill. They are served from outside the site and are the slowest thing on any page. Blocking them breaks nothing, and the privacy policy explains what they involve.

One practical note on phones: the daily boards are laid out for a narrow screen first, so a phone in portrait is not a compromised version of the page. If a board looks cramped on a small screen, turning the device sideways gives the grid more room without changing any rule.