About WordGamesToolkit.com

This site exists because I went looking for a decent word game solver and what I found was either locked behind a paywall, buried under ads that required navigating the internet equivalent of a yard sale, or simply wrong. I am an English teacher. Being wrong about words is a character flaw I take personally.

I have been playing word games since 1998, which I mention not to establish credibility but to explain why I own three physical dictionaries and have opinions about which one is best. (Merriam-Webster, for the record. The others know what they did.) I spend about ten months of the year convincing 8th graders that language matters, and the other two months surfing and reflecting on whether that was a reasonable way to organize a life. The answer, most days, is yes.

I read the dictionary at the beach because it helps me stay current. My wife has heard that joke enough times that she no longer responds to it. I consider this a personal victory.

What's on the Site

WordGamesToolkit.com is a free collection of word game solvers, word lists, and printable puzzles. Every tool runs in your browser. Nothing requires an account. Nothing is behind a paywall. The tools that exist here exist because I needed them and the alternatives were, as previously established, frustrating.

The solver tools cover the main competitive word games: a Wordle Solver that filters by position and letter clues, a Scrabble Helper and Scrabble Word Checker that run off the North American TWL/NWL dictionary, a Word Unscrambler and Anagram Solver that handle any combination of letters, and helpers for Connections, Boggle, Hangman, Waffle, and Quordle. (Quordle is four Wordle grids simultaneously. I did not invent it, but I respect whoever did and also question their judgment.)

The word lists run from 4 letters to 8 letters, each with filters for Scrabble value, vowel count, and letter position. There is also a Words Starting With A–Z hub that covers every valid English word by starting letter, organized by length. Useful for Scrabble hook searches, crossword fills, and winning arguments about whether a word exists. (QOPH exists. It scores 18 points. You're welcome.)

For Teachers

The Word Search section is here specifically because teachers asked for it and the existing options were either paywalled, poorly formatted, or inexplicably difficult to print on standard paper — which, as educators will know, is exactly the kind of friction that derails a Tuesday morning. There are 165+ themed printable word searches organized by grade level from kindergarten through adult, every one of them free, every one with an answer key.

The Word Search Generator lets you build a custom puzzle from your own word list in under a minute. I built it because my class vocabulary lists never matched anything the pre-made puzzles were covering, and I was spending time I did not have making them by hand. If you are a teacher using these resources, I appreciate you. I hope your 5th period is less eventful than mine usually was.

How the Tools Work

Everything runs client-side in your browser using a 186,685-word dictionary loaded from a public word list. There are no server-side lookups happening when you search, which is why results are instant. It also means the tools work offline once the page has loaded — useful for planes, road trips, or classrooms with the kind of WiFi that technically exists but is making a philosophical statement about its own reliability.

The word list used for Scrabble tools is the TWL/NWL — the standard for North American competitive Scrabble. This means the Scrabble Word Checker will accurately tell you whether a word is valid before you play it, challenge it, or stake your dignity on it at family game night. The results are as accurate as the dictionary. The dictionary is very accurate. Use it with confidence.

A Final Note

The tools on this site are free because word games should be accessible to everyone who plays them — from the competitive Scrabble tournament player who knows what a bingo stem is, to the person doing Wordle during their lunch break who just needs to know if there are any five-letter words left with the letters they have. Both are valid. Neither should have to create an account.

If something doesn't work the way you expect, a word is missing that shouldn't be, or you simply want to argue about etymology — the contact page is right there. We will figure it out. Probably faster than either of us would have solved today's Wordle without help. Which is, if we are being honest, why we are both here.