Text Twist Solver

Text Twist is a timed anagram game. Each round deals you a short rack of letters, six in the original game, and shows a board of empty slots for every word the rack can make, usually from three letters up. You type words to fill the slots before the clock runs out. To move on to the next round, you must find at least one word that uses all of the letters. Finding every word on the board is a perfect round and earns a bonus. Text Twist 2 added new modes and longer racks. The principle is the same.

Enter your rack and the solver lists every word of three letters or more, grouped by length. That matches the way Text Twist lays out its board. The full-length group comes first because it holds the word that advances you. For AEDRST, that group has six words, including stared, trades and treads. Any one of them clears the round. Some racks have only one full-length answer: BDEORR can only be border.

Words are sorted with the most common first. Text Twist's word list leans towards familiar words, so the top of each group is where the board's answers are most likely to be. Rare entries further down may not be accepted by the game.

Lock in the long word first

Nothing else matters if you don't find a full-length word, so find it before you start collecting three-letter words. Twist (shuffle) the letters a few times. A new order often makes the long word appear.

Then sweep by length

After the long word, go for the five-letter words, then fours, then threes. Long words are worth more, and each one you find suggests shorter words inside it. Stared gives you star, tear, dare, rate and more.

Use plural and tense patterns

If the rack has an S, almost every short word can take it: tear → tears, rate → rates. With a D and an E, try adding -ED to verbs. These pairs fill several slots in a few seconds.

Watch the clock, not the board

Once the full-length word is in, every extra word is a bonus. If time is short, type the three-letter words you're sure of rather than chasing a tricky five-letter one.

A seventh letter makes the board much bigger. Our six-letter example rack makes about 130 words of three letters or more. The seven-letter rack AEGINRT makes over 200, including five full-length words: tearing, granite, ingrate, tangier and gratine. On seven-letter racks, look for -ING and -ER endings first. They turn up again and again in long answers.

Not all racks are equal. Racks built from common letters (E, A, R, S, T, D) produce long boards with several full-length answers. That makes the round easy to clear, though hard to complete perfectly. AEDRST is a typical example. Racks with one or two awkward letters (a V, K or a second U) often have only one full-length word, and the board is shorter. When you see an awkward letter, build the long word around it first. It can usually only go in one or two places, which narrows the search a lot.

The best way to get faster at Text Twist is to learn which letter combinations are common. Feed past racks into the solver and study the words you missed. Short, common anagram families like are/ear/era and post/pots/spot/stop/tops come up constantly. If you enjoy the format, try the word scramble solver or the letter-wheel helpers for Wordscapes and Word Cookies, which use a very similar word pool.