Word Finder

Use asterisks (*) for wildcards (blank tiles).
Question mark (?) matches any single letter.
Asterisk (*) matches any sequence of zero or more letters.

Word Finder - Find Words for Any Word Game

Stuck on a tricky crossword? Chasing that last Scrabble word? Or just need help solving today's Wordle? You're in the right place. WordLime is your secret weapon for solving puzzles, boosting your vocabulary, and winning every word challenge.

WordLime's Word Finder helps you find words matching virtually any criteria. From anagram solving to crossword pattern matching and everything in between.

Game-Specific Tips

Scrabble, Wordfeud, Words With Friends: Use the "Letters" field with your tile rack. Use one asterisk (*) for every wildcard/blank tile you have. Enable "Allow letter repetition" if you want to see words using letters multiple times. Try "celost" to find words like "closet", "celts", "close" and "aety**" to find "artery", "beauty", "betray". For a simpler interface focused on this feature, try Words with Letters.

Crosswords: Use the "Pattern" field with ? for unknown letters. Try "de???ed" to find "debated", "decayed", "decided".

Wordle: Use "Letters by position" for known letters, "Include letters" for confirmed letters in wrong positions, and "Exclude letters" for eliminated letters. Try different combinations to narrow down possibilities.

Filters

  • Letters

    • Enter the letters available to you to find words that can be made using only these letters (anagrams).
    • Use asterisks (*) for wildcards (blank tiles).
    Examples:
    • celost → closet, celts, close, clots, colts, stole, clot, colt, cost, cots
    • enorsw → owners, worsen, owner, senor, snore, swore, sworn, worse, eons, news
    • aety** → artery, beauty, betray, earthy, eatery, fealty, gaiety, gayest, hearty, lately
    • efor** → before, confer, effort, fedora, fervor, flower, fodder, folder, fonder, forage

  • Allow letter repetition?

    • Allow the same letter to be used multiple times in a word, even if you only have it once.
    Examples:
    • aort → rotator, orator, tartar, tattoo, aorta, rotor, tarot, roar, root, rota
    • elns → senseless, lenses, lessen, senses, sells, sense, eels, else, lees, lens
    • aet* → attest, estate, settee, tattle, teepee, abate, eaten, eater, latte, matte
    • mos* → bosoms, cosmos, booms, bosom, looms, memos, momma, mommy, moods, moons

  • Pattern

    • Enter a pattern to match the entire word.
    • Use ? for any single letter and * for any sequence of zero or more letters.
    Examples:
    • de???ed → debated, decayed, decided, decoded, decreed, deduced, defaced, defamed, defiled, defined
    • re???es → reaches, recipes, recites, reduces, refuses, regimes, relates, relaxes, removes, replies
    • ?el*te? → belted, melted, belated, deleted, related, relates, selected, cellmates, delegated, delegates
    • ?nt*in? → untying, entering, enticing, intending, interning, intestine, intruding, entertains, entrusting, intriguing

  • Starting with

    • Enter the letters or pattern that the word must begin with.
    • You can use wildcards: ? for any single letter and * for any sequence of zero or more letters.
    Examples:
    • pr?s? → press, prism, priss, prose, presto, prison, prissy, present, preside, pressed
    • ra?i? → rabid, radio, rapid, ratio, rabies, racial, racing, racism, racist, radial
    • *p?tch → patch, pitch, patchy, patched, patches, pitched, pitcher, pitches, dispatch, patching
    • *r?nch → ranch, branch, brunch, crunch, drench, rancho, trench, wrench, crunchy, rancher

  • Ending in

    • Enter the letters or pattern that the word must end in.
    • You can use wildcards: ? for any single letter and * for any sequence of zero or more letters.
    Examples:
    • ?a?er → baker, caper, carer, cater, eager, eater, faker, gamer, gayer, hater
    • ?i?al → final, rival, tidal, viral, vital, animal, bridal, primal, spinal, spiral
    • ind?c* → indict, induce, induced, induces, indecent, indicate, indicted, inducing, inducted, indecency
    • lat?d* → elated, plated, slated, belated, dilated, related, deflated, inflated, isolated, violated

  • Containing

    • Enter a sequence of letters or pattern that must appear somewhere within the word.
    • You can use wildcards: ? for any single letter and * for any sequence of zero or more letters.
    Examples:
    • i?li?g → idling, billing, dialing, filling, killing, milling, rifling, sibling, willing, billings
    • t?nd?n → tendon, tending, tendons, standing, tendency, attendant, attending, extending, intending, attendance
    • ele*rat → celebrate, accelerate, celebrated, celebrates, electorate, accelerated, accelerates, accelerator, celebrating, celebration
    • nst*uct → instruct, construct, instructs, instructed, instructor, constructed, instructing, instruction, instructive, instructors

  • Length

    • Enter the exact number of letters that the word must have.
    • Setting a length automatically enables the "Letters by position" option, allowing you to specify known letters in specific positions.

  • Letters by position

    • Specify known letters in exact positions within the word.
    • This is useful for crossword puzzles or when you know certain letters but not others.
    • Leave positions empty for unknown letters.
    Examples:
    • s?a?e → scale, scare, shade, shake, shale, shame, shape, share, shave, skate
    • s?a?s → scabs, scams, scans, scars, seals, seams, sears, seats, slabs, slags
    • ?ake? → baked, baker, bakes, caked, cakes, faked, faker, fakes, laker, lakes
    • ?ate? → bates, cater, dated, dates, eaten, eater, fated, fates, gated, gates

  • Include letters

    • Enter individual letters that must be present somewhere in the word. The letters can appear in any position and don't need to be consecutive.
    • Useful for word games where certain letters must be used one or more times.
    • Duplicate letters mean minimum count: "aab" requires at least 2 "a" and 1 "b".
    Examples:
    • aeiou → dialogue, equation, euphoria, auctioned, authorise, authorize, autopsies, behaviour, cautioned, dialogues
    • eeenn → benzene, eminence, engineer, nineteen, sentence, tenement, deepening, dependent, engineers, gentlemen
    • eeess → cheeses, essence, seekers, sleeves, sneezes, defenses, deserves, escapees, excesses, expenses
    • eerrr → merrier, terrier, murderer, recorder, referral, referred, reformer, reporter, sorcerer, berserker
    • eesss → messes, senses, blesses, dresses, guesses, presses, tresses, useless, vessels, assessed

  • Exclude letters

    • Enter individual letters that must not appear anywhere in the word.
    • Useful for word games where certain letters are forbidden or unavailable.
    • Duplicate letters mean maximum count: "aab" allows at most 1 "a" and no "b".
    • Combined with "Include letters", this can be used to specify minimum and maximum counts for letters: include "aab" + exclude "abb" will match words with exactly 2 "a" and 1 or 2 "b".
    Examples:
    • aiou → beck, beds, beef, been, beep, beer, bees, beet, begs, bell
    • eiou → achy, acts, adds, afar, ajar, alas, alba, ally, alma, alms

  • Dictionary

    • Select which word list to search from. Different dictionaries contain different sets of valid words.