Spelling Bee Solver

Enter the seven letters of a word puzzle and the letter that must appear in every answer, and the page lists the words that fit. The word list is stored inside the page, so the search runs locally with no lookup sent anywhere.

Finding Every Word the Puzzle Will Accept

Word puzzles of this shape give you seven letters and mark one of them as mandatory. The set of valid answers is finite and can be computed exactly, which means the fair way to help someone is to show the whole list rather than drip-feed hints. That is what this page does: you give it the letters, it applies the rules, and the complete answer set comes back sorted with the longest words first.

• Two fields. The first takes the seven letters, ignoring anything that is not a letter and forcing upper case. The second takes the single mandatory centre letter.
• Results are sorted by length, descending, so the high-scoring long words appear before the four-letter ones instead of being scattered through the list.
• Pangrams — words that use all seven letters — are pulled out into their own line at the top, because they are the ones a solver is usually hunting for.
• If the search returns more than two hundred words, the page shows the first two hundred and tells you how many were found in total, rather than rendering a list long enough to make the browser sluggish.

The Three Rules the Solver Applies

1. A word must be at least four letters long. Three-letter words are excluded no matter how obvious they look.
2. Every letter in the word must appear in the seven letters you entered. A word containing any outside letter is rejected on the first character that fails.
3. The centre letter must appear at least once. A word built entirely from the six outer letters is rejected even if it is otherwise valid.
4. Letters may be reused as often as you like, so long words are not capped at seven characters — the longest entry in the built-in list runs to sixteen letters.
5. Words are returned in descending length order, and any word of seven or more letters that uses all seven distinct letters is also flagged as a pangram.

Working Through a Stuck Puzzle

You have the seven letters, you have found most of the short words, and you are short of the target score because something long is hiding. The list is the fastest way to find it.

• Enter the letters and the centre letter, then read the top of the results rather than the whole list. The longest words are first, and the missing points are almost always in one of them.
• Check the pangram line before anything else. A pangram is worth the full letter count plus a bonus in most scoring systems, so it is frequently the single largest gap in a stuck game.
• Work down the list rather than scanning it. Four-letter words are the bulk of any result set and they are the least valuable, so the useful part of the output is the first screen.
• If the total count is capped at two hundred, treat the figure as a signal: a letter set producing more than two hundred valid words is wide open, and the long words near the top are where the missing points are.

Differences From the Official Game

The solver applies the puzzle's structural rules exactly — minimum length, letters confined to the set, centre letter mandatory — but it judges words against its own embedded list of 6,068 entries, longest sixteen letters. That list is a general vocabulary, and it is not the same list the official puzzle uses. Treat the output as the set of words that satisfy the rules, not as a guarantee that a particular game will accept each one.

• Words the solver finds may be rejected by a specific puzzle if they are proper nouns, archaic forms or terms that particular publisher excludes.
• Conversely, some very recent slang or technical terms may be missing from the built-in list, because it is a fixed vocabulary rather than a live dictionary.
• The solver has no idea which words you have already entered, so it cannot point at the gap in your own progress — it lists the complete set every time.
• Nothing is stored between visits. Reloading the page does not remember your letters.
• The whole word list is inside the page, so once it has loaded the search works with no network connection at all.

Using It Without Spoiling the Puzzle

A complete answer list is a blunt instrument. Used carelessly it ends the puzzle; used deliberately it unblocks one without ending it.

• Read only the pangram line when you want a nudge rather than a solution. Finding one long word is usually enough to restart momentum.
• Cap how far down the list you look. Reading the first screen gives you the high-value words; scrolling to the end gives you everything and the puzzle is over.
• Use it after the fact to check what you missed, which is a more useful way to learn the vocabulary than using it during play.
• Teachers and puzzle setters can use the reverse reading: enter a candidate letter set and check whether it produces enough long words to make a puzzle with a sensible difficulty.
• If you are setting a puzzle yourself, the pangram count is a quick measure of whether the letter set is generous or stingy.

Puzzle Solver Questions

Why is a three-letter word I expected missing?

Because four letters is the minimum. The filter rejects anything shorter before it checks the letters, so no three-letter word will ever appear regardless of how well it fits the set.

Can I use a letter more than once in a word?

Yes, without limit. The rule is that every letter of the word must exist somewhere in your seven letters and that the centre letter must appear at least once — nothing restricts repetition. That is why the results can contain words considerably longer than seven characters.

What makes a word a pangram here?

It must be at least seven letters long and use all seven distinct letters at least once. Because it uses the whole alphabet you were given, most scoring systems award it the full length plus a bonus, which is why pangrams are listed separately at the top of the result.

Will every word it lists be accepted by the game I am playing?

Not guaranteed. The structural rules are applied exactly, but the vocabulary is the tool's own list of 6,068 words. A specific puzzle may exclude proper nouns, archaic spellings or particular terms, and may include recent words that are absent here. Use the list as strong guidance rather than a ruling.

Does the tool send my letters anywhere?

No. The entire word list is embedded in the page and the filtering runs as ordinary JavaScript on your own device. There is no lookup call, no account, and no record of which letter sets you have tried.

Last verified: October 3, 2026

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