Terms
- Anagram: a word made from the same letters as another word in a different order. Listen and silent are anagrams.
- Rack: the letters you hold and can play from. In Scrabble and most similar games a rack has seven tiles.
- Tile: one letter piece. In an app it is a square with a letter and a point value.
- Blank tile: a tile without a letter that can stand for any letter. It scores no points itself. In this tool you type a question mark for it.
- Bingo: playing all tiles of your rack in one turn, which earns a bonus. In Scrabble that is 50 points.
- Hook: a letter added to the front or back of a word on the board to make a new word, such as adding S to make a plural.
- Parallel play: placing a word next to another word so that several short words form at once.
- Premium square: a square on the board that doubles or triples the value of a letter or a whole word.
- Prefix and suffix: a group of letters added to the beginning or end of a word, such as re- in replay or -ing in playing.
- Rack leave: the tiles that remain on your rack after you play. Good players think about them when choosing a word.
- Exchange: giving back tiles to the bag in exchange for new ones, in place of playing a word.
- Pattern: a word with some letters known and others missing, such as s__rt. It is how crossword answers and many puzzles are described.
- Wildcard: a symbol that stands for an unknown letter or letters. In the pattern solver an underscore or question mark is one letter and an asterisk is any number of letters.
- Wordle colours: in Wordle-style puzzles green means the right letter in the right place, yellow means the letter is in the word but elsewhere, and gray means it does not occur.
Try the word unscrambler Try the crossword and pattern solver