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Word Scramble

Ten words with their letters mixed up. How many can you put back together?

Type
Word
Takes
about 2 min
Result in
words

Word Scramble

~2 min

  1. 10 common English words, each with its letters mixed up.
  2. Type the word: the right one is accepted at once.
  3. Stuck? Skip shows the word and moves on. The clock runs from the first word to the last.

Every scramble here has exactly one answer.

Your result: — / 10

How it's measured

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How does the word scramble work?

You get 10 words, one at a time, with their letters in a random order. Type the word: as soon as you have it right, it is accepted and the next one appears. If you are stuck, Skip shows you the word and moves on. The words are common English words of five to seven letters, picked at random from a list of 204.

Can a scramble have two answers?

Not here. Many words share their letters with another word: "listen" and "silent", "garden" and "danger". Every word in this game was checked against ENABLE, a public-domain list of about 173,000 English words, and kept only if no other word uses exactly the same letters. So the word you are looking for is the only possible answer.

How is your result calculated?

Your result is how many of the 10 words you solved, and the time from the first word to the last. Skipped words count as unsolved.

How do you unscramble words faster?

  • Look for common pairs. Letters like TH, CH, SH, ER and ING usually sit together in English.
  • Try endings first. Many words end in -ER, -LE, -ON or -ET. Fix the end and the start often falls into place.
  • Put the vowels between consonants. Rearranging so consonants and vowels alternate often shows the word.

For finding whole words in a grid, try the Word Search; for speed with words, the Typing Speed Test.

Questions

What is a word scramble?
A word with its letters mixed up. The puzzle is to put them back in order and find the word.
Is a word scramble the same as an anagram?
Nearly. An anagram is any rearrangement of a word's letters, often into another real word. A scramble is a rearrangement you have to undo.
Do capital letters matter?
No. Type in capitals or lower case; both are accepted.
Are the words the same every time?
No. Each game picks 10 new words at random and mixes their letters freshly.