About the Anagram Checker
Two texts are anagrams when they use exactly the same letters in a different arrangement, like listen and silent. This tool takes the text on the left and the text you type into the toolbar, normalises both the same way, and reports whether they match. It settles a crossword argument, or confirms that a puzzle answer really does work, in one click.
Normalisation lowercases each text, keeps only the letters a to z and the digits 0 to 9, then sorts those characters into order. Comparing the two sorted strings compares the multiset of letters, so ordering is irrelevant but counting is not: a word with two e characters will never match one with three.
Because spaces and punctuation are thrown away, word boundaries do not matter and dormitory matches dirty room. Accented and non-Latin letters are thrown away too, and that is the gotcha: café reduces to three letters and fails against face, so run both texts through Remove Accents first whenever diacritics are involved.
It compares the pair you give it and does not search a dictionary for candidate anagrams. To test a single text for reading the same backwards, use the Palindrome Checker.
How to use
- Paste the first text on the left.
- Enter the second text in the toolbar.
- Read whether they are anagrams.
Common questions
- Are spaces and case ignored?
- Yes. Only the letters and digits are compared, so "Dirty Room" and "dormitory" match.
- Does word count matter?
- No, only the multiset of letters. A phrase and a single word can be anagrams.
- Can it find anagrams for me?
- No, it compares two texts you provide. It does not search a dictionary.