Word Sieve

Word maker · ENABLE1, 172,820 words · ranked by points

Every word your letters make, highest scoring first

A rack goes in the top; the words come out ranked by what each is worth under the standard letter values, with a bar beside it so the gaps are visible. The letter-scores guide holds the values and the Q-without-U words worth memorising. The table those values come from is printed on the page and is the one the ranking sorts by. The dictionary is named, it all runs in your browser, and when there is nothing to find the page says so.

Racknone typed Top score— Words found— DictionaryENABLE1 · 172,820 words Valuesstandard letter values

Up to 15 characters. Use ? for a blank — at most two. A blank tile is worth nothing under these values, so a word marked ? plays for less than the number shown.

The standard letter values this page ranks with:

The word index is not loaded yet. It ships as 14 plain-text shards, one per word length, totalling 3,204,287 bytes; a rack pulls only the shards it can reach, and the figure for your rack appears here after a score.

What is measured, how it is kept, and what it cannot tell you

What is measured. Two things, in that order. Which entries of a named word list can be spelled using the letters you supplied, each no more times than you supplied it — the same question the unscrambler answers, put to the same index. Then what each is worth: the sum of its letters under the standard letter values, computed in the page. The ranking is that number descending, and a word's bar is it as a share of the answer's highest. There is no frequency weighting and no opinion about which answers are good.

How it is kept. The list ships as a file, wordlist/enable1.txt, precomputed at build time into an anagram-key index: each word's letters sorted, used as the key to every word that shares them. It is split by word length, so a rack pulls only the lengths it could reach and those shards are fetched after the page loads — the bytes yours pulled are printed under the results, and none of it is page weight. The letter values live in one table in the site's solver module, and the table above the results is rendered from it rather than typed beside it, so what you read and what the sort used cannot drift apart.

What it cannot tell you. What a word would score on a board: premium squares, the bonus for laying every tile, and where your opponent has played are outside this page, so the number is the word's own value and nothing more. Whether a word is legal in your game — that depends on a word list this site does not use and cannot ship. And anything outside ENABLE1: proper nouns, hyphenations, inflections coined since the list was compiled, and the 4,272 entries of 16 letters or more, in the file but outside the index because no 15-character rack reaches them.

Questions

How is each word scored?
Every letter carries a value from the standard letter table — a, e, i, l, n, o, r, s, t and u are worth 1, the awkward q and z are worth 10 — and a word's score is the sum of its letters. Nothing else counts: no premium squares, no bonus for laying every tile, no board. The table above the results is drawn from the values the ranking sorts by, so what you read is what the sort used.
What does the bar beside each word mean?
The word's score as a share of the highest in that answer, in twenty steps: the top word's bar is full and a word worth half as much draws a bar half as long. It rounds up, so the number beside it is the score and the bar only the shape of the list.
Why isn't the longest word the highest scoring?
Because the letters are not worth the same. From the rack QUARTZY the top word is the six-letter QUARTZ at 24 — but right behind it the four-letter QUAY scores 16, beating the five-letter QUART at 14. Length wins only when the letters are cheap; ranking by points rather than length is the difference between this page and the unscrambler.
Will these words and scores match my game?
Sometimes, and this page will not pretend otherwise. The values are the standard letter values the common tile games are scored with, not any publisher's list, and the words come from ENABLE1 — a public-domain word list of 172,820 words, not the tournament list your game may judge against, which is a proprietary compilation this site does not use and cannot ship. A word found here may be refused by your game, and one your game accepts may be missing from ENABLE1.
Do the letters I type leave my device?
No, and it is the browser that stops them rather than a promise on this page. The rack is solved and scored in your tab: the page fetches the slices of its word index your rack can reach, as plain text from this site, and does every lookup and sum locally. The Content-Security-Policy pins connections to this origin alone, so a request carrying your letters elsewhere fails before it is made.

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