Word guides: anagrams, patterns and five-letter strategy
How anagram solvers, wildcard patterns and five-letter helpers work, with figures taken straight from the open word lists on this site.
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How anagram solvers work, with numbers from real word lists
Why sorting letters beats trying every arrangement, how repeated letters and blanks change the count, and which English five-letter families are largest.
Published 17 October 2026
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Wildcard patterns for crosswords: ?, * and letter sets
How to turn the letters you have into a pattern, what ? and * match, and how letter sets narrow a crossword answer, with counts from the English list.
Published 17 October 2026
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Five-letter word games: letters, positions and elimination
Which letters five-letter words share, how repeated letters change yellow clues, and how many words one all-grey guess removes, with counts from the lists.
Published 17 October 2026
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Finding words for tile games: racks, blanks and board letters
How many words seven tiles can make, what a blank is worth, and how letters already on the board change the search, with counts from the English list.
Published 17 October 2026
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About the word lists: SCOWL and SALDO, sizes and licences
Where the English and Swedish word lists come from, what was filtered out, how big each list is by word length, and the licences that apply.
Published 17 October 2026
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Swedish word forms, compounds and å ä ö in word games
How Swedish inflection, compounds and the letters å, ä and ö shape a Swedish word list, with anagram and pattern examples from the SALDO-based list.
Published 17 October 2026