How to use this
- Type the letters you have. Order does not matter. A ? stands in for a blank tile and can become any letter.
- Read the results, longest first. Words are grouped by length, because in most word games and most classroom tasks that is what you are hunting for.
- Use the detail. Each card gives you a meaning, an example sentence and the word family. That is the part worth reading if English is not your first language.
What makes this different
Most unscramblers hand you a wall of valid letter strings and stop there. That is useful for exactly one purpose: winning a game you are already playing.
This one attaches the same data to every word that a teacher would want on the board — the meaning in plain language, the part of speech, the syllable break written with dots, the word family, and the CEFR band the word usually sits in. A learner who unscrambles teacher also sees teach·er, sees that it belongs with teach, taught, teaching, and leaves with something more durable than a solved puzzle.
Where a level has not yet been checked against a published wordlist, it carries a warning mark rather than being presented as settled. That matters more than it sounds: a teacher who trusts an A2 label and hands a C1 word to beginners has been actively misled.
For teachers
The scramble maker is the tool built for you. Choose a level and a topic and it produces a worksheet with an answer key, ready to print. Paste your own vocabulary list and it will scramble that instead, which is usually what you want in week eight of a course with its own wordlist.
Two things it does that generic generators do not. It avoids letter strings that unscramble into more than one valid word, which otherwise turns a vocabulary exercise into an argument. And it keeps to the level you asked for, so an A2 sheet does not quietly hand your students a C1 word.
Ready-made packs by theme live in the printable worksheet library, each with a classroom procedure you could follow cold. The ESL sheets suit new vocabulary, the beginner sheets keep a word bank on every page, and the revision sheets are for sets you taught weeks ago. Everything for teachers sits together in the teaching resources section.
Questions
Is this different from other word unscramblers?
Yes. Other tools return a bare list. Every result here carries a meaning, part of speech, syllable break and CEFR level, so the tool teaches rather than only solving.
Can I use this with my class?
Yes. The scramble maker builds level-appropriate worksheets with an answer key, and every worksheet in the library includes a classroom procedure with timings.
What is a CEFR level?
CEFR is the Common European Framework of Reference. It bands language from A1 for beginners up to C2 for near-native users. The label shows which band a word usually belongs to.
Why do some levels show a warning mark?
The mark means the level was drafted but not yet checked against a published wordlist. Unchecked labels are shown as unchecked rather than presented as fact.
Which dictionary does this use?
This prototype uses a small hand-built learner wordlist so that every entry carries full teaching data. A production version needs a decision about which list defines a valid word, because the major word-game lists and learner dictionaries disagree with each other.