About Tilewise

Tilewise is a small set of word tools: a word unscrambler, a crossword pattern solver, a Spelling Bee solver and a Letter Boxed solver. Each one does a single job and gives you the answer in a fraction of a second.

How it works

When you open a tool, your browser downloads the word list once, about 1 MB before compression. Every search after that runs on your own device. Nothing you type is sent to a server, so results are instant and private.

The dictionary

The word list contains about 110,000 English words from SCOWL (Spell Checker Oriented Word Lists) by Kevin Atkinson, combining words common to all English variants with American spellings. Proper nouns, abbreviations, hyphenated words and words with apostrophes are excluded.

Words are split into two tiers. About 61,000 common words come from the smaller SCOWL size levels. The rest come from the larger levels and are shown in lighter text as less common.

Every word game uses its own dictionary, so no list matches all of them. If you think a common word is missing or a word should not be listed, let us know.

Independence

Spelling Bee and Letter Boxed are games published by The New York Times. Tilewise is an independent project and is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by The New York Times or any game publisher.

How the site is funded

The tools are free to use. The site may show advertising to cover its running costs. See the privacy policy for how that works.