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Tool/Solver to search for the longest word made out of some letters. Longest word is a game letter whose purpose is to find the longest word possible using some given letters, a concept close to anagramming.
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What is the longest word game? (Definition)
The longest word is a part of the Countdown TV program, whose purpose is to find the longest word by using only some selected letters (e.g. to rearrange letters in order to make a word from letters).
There are many letter games whose purpose is to make a word from letters (Scrabble, Wordox, Words with Friends, etc.). Most are similar to the longest word game, for example if the goal is to use all letters, it is an anagram.
In the original rules, a word list (dictionary reference) tells which word is an accepted solution or not (no proper noun). The program here is not limited and allows all kind of words, including conjugated verbs and sometimes some proper nouns.
What are the variants of the longest word game?
In its original version, the player has to try to make an anagram of the letters, or remove some of them to get the longest/biggest word possible.
Example: ABCDEFGHIJ gives JIGHEAD (7 letters)
There are variants where letters can be used multiple times (repeating letters).
Example: ABCDEFGHIJ giving CHIFFCHAFF (10 letters)
It is also possible to search a word without scrambling the letters
Example: ABCDEFGHIJ allows A_C____HI_ (ACHI) (4 letters)
Finally, it is possible to mix the two options
Example: ABCDEFGHIJ gives BEEF (4 letters)
See also dCode solvers: Scrabble, Boggle, Words containing… etc.
When was the TV Show ‘Countdown’ invented?
In 1965, in a French TV Show by Armand Jammot, completed in 1972 by countdown numbers rounds.
How to perform a random letters selection for the longest word game?
What is the longest word in english?
The longest word varies according to the dictionary used:
— pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, but technical
— hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia, a word that has been created to describe the fear of long words.
— antidisestablishmentarianism, found in all major dictionaries
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Words from Letters FAQ
What Words Can I Make With These Letters?
That is the, «To be, or not to be,» question of all word games. There are usually many words you can make. Sometimes, there won’t be many at all. Just remember, sometimes it pays to make a word with fewer than the maximum number of points possible because it sets you up better for your next turn.
What Is the Longest English Word?
In the Oxford English Dictionary, the longest word is FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION, which means «the act of deeming or estimating something as worthless. Other dictionaries contain the word PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS, which is coal miners’ «black lung disease.»
If you think that’s bad, German is worse. The longest word in German is DONAUDAMPFSCHIFFFAHRTSELEKTRIZITÄTENHAUPTBETRIEBSWERKBAUUNTERBEAMTENGESELLSCHAFT. FLOCCI…, at 29 letters, and PNEUMONO …, at 45 letters, combined aren’t that long! None of these words will fit on a crossword game board. Scrabble boards are 15 letters across, so the longest word, which also doubles as the word worth the most points, possible is OXYBENPHUTAZONE. It requires eight letters already be placed, none of them on any of the three triples or the double-letter squares, and it scores 1,778 points. No one has ever achieved it.
How Do You Find Words With Letters Missing?
The best way is to use our tool. Of course, you should never use it while playing competitive games because it would count as looking up words in the Official Scrabble Player’s Dictionary prior to playing. But, if you wanted to ask yourself, «Which words from letters in my rack can I make?» during a friendly Words With Friends game, then that would not be bad form. Outside of competition, study as many words as you want using the website. It’s an invaluable training tool!
Everything You Need to Know about Word Unscramblers
Love playing Scrabble®? You know how difficult it is to find words among a bunch of letters. Sure, seeing vowels and consonants is everything some people need to win over any jumble.
However, figuring out a letter combination that forms an anagram isn’t a skill everyone possesses. If you’re one of those requiring word scramble help, I’ve got good news for you. It’s easy to figure out the missing word, even if you aren’t sure about it, especially if you are playing your favorite board game online.
You can discover new ways to make playing the game easy. Read on and discover your way to mastering any jumble.
What is a Word Unscramble Tool?
A word unscramble tool also goes by the name of «letter unscrambler» or «jumble solver.» It’s a tool that finds words hidden within jumbled letters.
An anagram solver lets you find all the words made from a list of letters presented in any order. You only need to locate the online tool and, in the search bar, enter any letters you can think of, including wild cards.
Many word solvers also let you choose a game dictionary. It gives you extra leeway to search with advanced options if you want to cheat with specific rules.
You don’t have to think of them as some unscramble cheat. Instead, using a scramble solver can help you study and practice your next Scrabble® or Words With Friends® match.
How to Unscramble Words and How to Use Advanced Options
Steps and Examples
The first thing you need to do is to find the best tool. Then, the steps are straightforward. Even more so, most tools follow the same steps; you’ll have a hard time getting lost with any scramble solver.
- Step 1: Enter each of your current letter tiles in the search box. The maximum is fifteen. You can use two blank tiles («?» or SPACE).
- Step 2: Hit the Search button. You will get to see different words coming up from the generator. Click on any word to see its definition.
Want to get even better at the popular word game? Alternatively, you can also use Advanced Options to add in more complexity to your favorite word game. So, you can decide what letter or letter pairs the word should start with, or the letter you will find at the end. A wildcard letter can generate many letter ideas.
You can also decide how many letters the word will contain, or the word pattern. For instance, you can search for high-scoring words that have the letter ‘n’ in a specific position. When you are done, all you need to do is hit the search button again.
Then, you can see the words database categorized by the number of letters.
Unscramble Words Methods
There are two approaches when it comes to word scramble help. Each method sets itself apart depending on how you’re solving the anagram.
1. Unscramble Letters
The first approach is to unscramble letter combinations to make words. This way tends to be the most commonly sought-after because it’s easier to score more points and win when you’re not focusing on a specific word.
When we talk about having to unscramble letters to make words, the possibilities are more extensive.
This word scramble help consists of what you learned earlier. The unscrambler tool receives combinations of letters and proceeds to unscramble them into different words.
If your objective is to rely less on that random wildcard and increase your vocabulary, this way is the best.
2. Unscramble Words
This type of word solver is much more restrictive. If you go with it, you’re choosing to unscramble jumbled words. It’s the closest you can get to a literal anagram.
To unscramble this anagram is much more difficult. You’re going after an individual result instead of many possibilities.
Online tools to unscramble jumbled words are usually more difficult to find. Often, the easiest way to unscramble a specific word with online help is to use filters. This way, you can limit the results and narrow them down to what you want.
Tips and Tricks to Unscramble Long Words
Words longer than five letters can be a nightmare. However, there are a few tips we can give you to make your life easier.
Tip 1: Focus on Syllables
Firstly, you can exploit the mighty syllable. People make words from syllables, not letters. You can merge vowels and consonants and form letter combinations (like suffixes and prefixes) that often go together. This way makes it easier to visualize possible words.
Tip 2: Vowels vs Consonants
Another way is to separate consonants and vowels. It often makes answers more noticeable than having everything jumbled.
Tip 3: Separate the Letter S
Lastly, the chances are that your language pluralizes words by adding an S in the end. If you’re playing Scrabble® and have a noisy S, taking up space, you probably can place it as adjacent letters at the end of your next word.
Most Popular Unscrambling Examples
There are ways to make the next puzzle game more exciting. Additionally, you can use these «rules» to focus on particular vocabularies you want to improve.
A. Three Word Finding Examples by Length
The first example is to unscramble anagrams into a set number of random letters using advanced options.
- Make 7 letter words with these letters: AHSJFTSIKATL
Fajitas
Saltish
Khalifa - Make 6 letter words with these letters: OKLIYNCMZHOF
Colony
Flinch
Kimono - Make 5 letter words with these letters: MGJDUHSIAOET
Audio,
Amuse
Guest
B. Two Word Solving Examples by Topic
The other way to solve a letter scramble puzzle is to focus on a topic. You can choose specific categories for your anagram, or you can limit your jumble to a certain language like German or French to make things harder!
- Find home utilities with these letters: KSIETNCHOFRK
Kitchen
Fork
Knife - Find food-related words with these letters: AJDOQIUESHNM
Quinoa
Queso
Squid
If you are looking to get better in the board game faster, this Word Unscrambler is the one you need to check out – for sure! For Crossword Puzzles lovers, we have a different tool. Try it here when you are stuck in solving any clue.
I’m guessing this is something like finding possible words given a set of Scrabble tiles, so that a character can be repeated only as many times as it is repeated in the original list.
The trick is to efficiently test each character of each word in your word file against a set containing your source letters. For each character, if found in the test set, remove it from the test set and proceed; otherwise, the word is not a match, and go on to the next word.
Python has a nice function all for testing a set of conditions based on elements in a sequence. all has the added feature that it will «short-circuit», that is, as soon as one item fails the condition, then no more tests are done. So if your first letter of your candidate word is ‘z’, and there is no ‘z’ in your source letters, then there is no point in testing any more letters in the candidate word.
My first shot at writing this was simply:
matches = []
for word in wordlist:
testset = set(letters)
if all(c in testset for c in word):
matches.append(word)
Unfortunately, the bug here is that if the source letters contained a single ‘m’, a word with several ‘m’s would erroneously match, since each ‘m’ would separately match the given ‘m’ in the source testset. So I needed to remove each letter as it was matched.
I took advantage of the fact that set.remove(item) returns None, which Python treats as a Boolean False, and expanded my generator expression used in calling all. For each c in word, if it is found in testset, I want to additionally remove it from testset, something like (pseudo-code, not valid Python):
all(c in testset and "remove c from testset" for c in word)
Since set.remove returns a None, I can replace the quoted bit above with «not testset.remove(c)», and now I have a valid Python expression:
all(c in testset and not testset.remove(c) for c in word)
Now we just need to wrap that in a loop that checks each word in the list (be sure to build a fresh testset before checking each word, since our all test has now become a destructive test):
for word in wordlist:
testset = set(letters)
if all(c in testset and not testset.remove(c) for c in word):
matches.append(word)
The final step is to sort the matches by descending length. We can pass a key function to sort. The builtin len would be good, but that would sort by ascending length. To change it to a descending sort, we use a lambda to give us not len, but -1 * len:
matches.sort(key=lambda wd: -len(wd))
Now you can just print out the longest word, at matches[0], or iterate over all matches and print them out.
(I was surprised that this brute force approach runs so well. I used the 2of12inf.txt word list, containing over 80,000 words, and for a list of 10 characters, I get back the list of matches in about 0.8 seconds on my little 1.99GHz laptop.)
Suppose we have a list of words and a string called letters, we have to find the size of the longest word that can be made by rearranging the given letters. In the letters there may be asterisk character (*) it can match any character. And it is not necessary to use all the letters.
So, if the input is like words = [«prince», «rice», «price», «limit», «hello»] letters = «*r**ce*», then the output will be 6, as the longest word we can make is «prince» the length is 6.
To solve this, we will follow these steps:
- has := a map containing letters and frequencies of each element in letters
- Define a function valid() . This will take s
- need := a map containing letters and frequencies of each element in s
- extra := sum of all elements of (maximum of 0 and need[char] — has[char] for all char in need)
- return true when extra <= has[«*»]
- From the main method do the following:
- return maximum of all elements in the list [size of word for all word in words when word is valid]
Let us see the following implementation to get better understanding:
Example
Live Demo
from collections import Counter class Solution: def solve(self, words, letters): has = Counter(letters) def valid(s): need = Counter(s) extra = sum([max(0, need[char] - has[char]) for char in need]) return extra <= has["*"] return max([len(word) for word in words if valid(word)]) ob = Solution() words = ["prince", "rice", "price", "limit", "hello"] letters = "*r**ce*" print(ob.solve(words, letters))
Input
["prince", "rice", "price", "limit", "hello"], "*r**ce*"
Output
6
Word Finder Tools / Dictionary Search Tools Operating On The
Litscape Default Word List (221,719 Words)
Find words using these letters / Find words in a word
This search will find all words contained in the letters that you specify, as long as the word is in this word list. The resulting words will have some or all of the letters, and only these letters. This search is sensitive to the frequency of occurrence of letters in the requested set. For example, if you specify 2 e’s in your request, the resulting words will have, at most, 2 e’s. More words will result from more letters, but too many letters might produce too many words and obscure your findings. The contains only search is a good Scrabble® or Words with Friends™ helper. Enter your letters and click the Find Words
button. If you find yourself entering a letter set in the contains only search box, and doing repeated searches, each time altering a single letter, perhaps the contains only, plus one blank tile search, would work better for you.
Do a word finder search.
Results will display below.
You can use this search to suggest words containing only the letters in your Scrabble® rack. All words in our word list (over 221,719) that contain some or all of the letters will be displayed.
Find words containing only, really only …
If you want all the letters to be used the same number of times that is specified in the requested set of letters, with no other letters present, then try our anagram search.
Find words containing only, but any number of times …
If you want to find words made from some or all of the letters, but have these words use only these letters in any amounts, then use the find words made from search.
Scrabble® Tips
Find the longest word that can be made with the given letters.
This search will find all words using these letters, and only these letters, in our word list of over 221,719 words. Use the buttons below the word list to sort the words by length, and then reverse the list to place the longest words first.
Get more words with these letters.
Enter the letters on your scrabble rack and the letter on the Scrabble® board that you are trying to play off of. More words will result from more letters, but too many letters might produce too many words and obscure your findings.
Easily find words with similar endings in the given letters.
Sort the words alphabetically from the end of word, using the buttons below the word list.
Level: Medium to Difficult
This game is a good activity for learning new words and for reviving some word knoweledge and for giving a teacher time to prepare other tasks for students.
The class is to be divided into 2-3- teams. Give each team a dictionary and write on the board a long word. Students should compose different words from the letters of this word. After some time, the teams give their words. the team that has the most correct words wins.
For example:
R E T R I B U T I O N
return tribute iron notion note tone rib tube bruit tent tribe bur button rent burin nob bite burr run route tire tore bent bet bonnet rub nib net nub bin nut bit rube ruin rob rot unit union unite tier tie tin tint tone toe brute burn brunt butt butter riot tot tenet tenure terrier retro bone boot born bout totter tote tour bore
Then you can ask them to learn these words.
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