Anagram Solver
Free anagram checker. Find out whether two words or phrases are anagrams of each other.
Worked example
"Listen" and "silent" are anagrams: sorting each word's letters alphabetically gives "eilnst" for both. "Listen" and "silence" are not — "silence" has seven letters, one more than "listen", so they can't be rearrangements of exactly the same letters.
Frequently asked questions
What is an anagram?
An anagram is a word or phrase formed by rearranging all the letters of another, using each letter exactly once. "Listen" and "silent" are anagrams of each other — same six letters, different order.
How do you check if two words are anagrams?
Strip spaces and punctuation, convert both to the same case, sort each word's letters alphabetically, and compare the results — if the sorted letters match exactly, the two are anagrams. "Listen" sorted is "eilnst"; "silent" sorted is also "eilnst", confirming the match.
Do anagrams have to be real words?
Not necessarily — an anagram just needs to use the same letters the same number of times. Whether the rearrangement is itself a valid word depends on context; word games typically only count anagrams that are also real dictionary words.