Vocabulary Tools & Word Finders
Find the word you need — a synonym with the right shade of meaning, an opposite, a rhyme, or the word on the tip of your tongue from a description of it. The shelf also looks up idioms, collocations and word roots, profiles the vocabulary of a text, and solves anagrams and word games. Free, no sign-up.
Vocabulary & Word Finders
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Acronym Generator
Generate acronyms and abbreviations from any phrase or set of words. Perfect for project names, organization names, and academic terminology.
Scrabble Score Calculator
Calculate the Scrabble score of any word — with per-letter values shown and optional double/triple letter and word multipliers.
Synonym Finder
Find synonyms and similar words for any English word, grouped into nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs, with a short definition beside each result.
Antonym Finder
Find the opposite of any English word from WordNet, with parts of speech and definitions — and prefixed forms and related words when no true antonym exists.
Rhyme Finder
Find perfect rhymes grouped by syllable count, plus near rhymes and sound-alikes, with filters for phrases, rare words, and names — for poems, lyrics, and mnemonics.
Reverse Dictionary
Describe a concept in your own words and find the word you mean, with definitions, an optional topic hint, and a first-letter filter for tip-of-the-tongue moments.
Describing Words Finder
See the adjectives most often used with any noun, or the nouns an adjective most often describes, ranked by how often writers pair them in Google Books.
Word Pattern Finder
Find every word matching a wildcard pattern such as c?t or *ology, or a mix of starts-with, ends-with, contains, and length filters, sorted by how common it is.
Anagram Solver
Unscramble up to 15 letters into every word they spell — full anagrams first, then shorter words grouped by length — with ? for blank tiles, using the ENABLE word list.
Wordle Solver
Enter your Wordle guesses with their green, yellow and gray tiles to list every word that still fits, ranked by letter frequency or by how well each guess splits the list.
Spelling Bee Solver
Enter the center letter and six outer letters to list every valid word of four or more letters, with points, pangrams highlighted, and a spoiler-free hint grid.
Letter Boxed Solver
Enter the letters on each side of the box to list every valid word and the one-, two- and three-word chains that use every letter, or continue from a word of your own.
Boggle Solver
Enter a 4x4 or 5x5 letter grid to find every word that can be traced through touching cells, with its path shown, official scoring and the Qu cube counted as two letters.
Word Ladder Solver
Enter two words of the same length to find the shortest word ladder between them, one letter at a time, with every other shortest route counted and words you can rule out.
Palindrome Checker
Check any word, number or sentence for palindromes, ignoring spaces, punctuation, capitals and accents as you choose, or scan a text for palindromic words and sentences.
Word Combiner
Blend two words or names into portmanteaus, ranked by shared letters, length and sound, with blends that are already real words marked.
Spoonerism Generator
Swap the opening sounds of words in any phrase to make spoonerisms, using real pronunciations, with results that are real words ranked first.
Homophone Finder
Find every word that sounds exactly like another — their, there, they're; read, red, reed — matched on CMU pronunciations, with a definition for each.
Greek and Latin Roots Finder
Search Greek and Latin roots, prefixes and suffixes by spelling, meaning or example word, or break any word into its parts.
Idiom Finder
Search over 300 common English idioms by keyword, meaning or theme, with a plain-English meaning and an example sentence for each.
Collocation Finder
Find the words that naturally go before or after a word, such as verb and noun pairs, ranked by how often they occur together in published English.
Vocabulary Profiler
Profile a text by NGSL frequency band and the New Academic Word List: coverage percentage for each band and a list of the off-list words.
Find the Right Word
| You want… | Use |
|---|---|
| A different word with the same meaning | Synonym Finder |
| The opposite of a word | Antonym Finder |
| A word you can describe but not name | Reverse Dictionary |
| A more precise adjective for a noun | Describing Words Finder |
| The verb or adjective that normally goes with a noun | Collocation Finder |
| What an expression means | Idiom Finder |
| Words that sound alike but are spelled differently | Homophone Finder |
| What a long word is built from | Greek and Latin Roots Finder |
| How advanced a text's vocabulary is | Vocabulary Profiler |
Collocations matter most for writers using English as an additional language: make a decision, not do a decision; heavy rain, not strong rain. The Collocation Finder ranks the pairings by how often they appear in published English, and the Vocabulary Profiler shows what share of your own text falls in each frequency band and in the academic word list, with every off-list word named.
Sound, Wordplay and Word Games
- Sound. The Rhyme Finder gives perfect rhymes by syllable count, plus near rhymes and sound-alikes, for poems and lyrics. The Spoonerism Generator swaps opening sounds, the Word Combiner blends two words into a portmanteau, and the Palindrome Checker tests words and sentences.
- Letters and patterns. The Word Pattern Finder matches wildcards such as
c?tor*ology, the Anagram Solver unscrambles a rack of letters, and the Acronym Generator builds names from a phrase. - Daily puzzles. The Wordle Solver lists every word that fits your tiles, the Spelling Bee Solver finds words and pangrams (with a spoiler-free hint grid), the Letter Boxed Solver finds chains that use every letter, and the Word Ladder Solver finds the shortest path between two words.
- Board games. The Boggle Solver traces every word on a 4×4 or 5×5 grid, and the Scrabble Score Calculator totals a play with its multipliers.
Where the Words Come From
The synonym, antonym, rhyme, reverse-dictionary, describing-words, pattern, collocation and homophone finders look words up in the free Datamuse API, which draws on WordNet, the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, Wiktionary and large English text collections. Your search goes to CitationEasy's server, which asks Datamuse and caches answers by word, so a word someone looked up recently is answered without a new request. No record is kept of who searched for what.
The Anagram Solver is different: it downloads a public-domain word list once and searches it in your browser. The game solvers work from a word list too, and the Scrabble Score Calculator and Acronym Generator need no word data at all.
A thesaurus suggests; it does not decide. Before you swap a word into academic writing, check that the synonym carries the same meaning and register in your sentence — utilize is not a more academic use. The Writing Analysis & Editing shelf helps with the wider wording of a draft.
Frequently Asked Questions
- How do I find a word when I only know what it means?
- Type a short description into the Reverse Dictionary — "fear of open spaces", "a word for a lucky accident". It ranks words whose definitions match. Add a topic hint or the first letter if you remember it.
- What is the difference between a perfect rhyme and a near rhyme?
- A perfect rhyme matches the stressed vowel and every sound after it (light / night). A near rhyme shares only some of those sounds (light / line). The Rhyme Finder lists both, grouped by syllable count.
- Can I use the anagram solver for Scrabble?
- Yes. The Anagram Solver takes a rack of letters with ? for blank tiles and lists every word they make; the Scrabble Score Calculator then totals a play. For a known pattern of letters, the Word Pattern Finder is the faster route. Check your game's own dictionary for disputed words.
- How does a Wordle solver narrow down the answer?
- You enter each guess with its green, yellow and gray tiles, and the Wordle Solver keeps only the words consistent with every clue. It ranks what is left by letter frequency or by how well each word would split the remaining candidates, so your next guess removes as many options as possible.
- What is a collocation?
- A collocation is a pair of words that habitually go together: you make a mistake but do homework, and rain is heavy, not strong. Learners and writers use them to sound natural. The Collocation Finder shows the verbs, adjectives and adverbs that most often sit next to a word.
- Are the synonyms suitable for academic writing?
- Some are and some are not. The finder lists words with a related meaning, not words that fit every sentence. Read the definition beside each result and keep the word that says exactly what you mean.