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Anagram Checker: Do Two Texts Use the Same Letters?

This free anagram checker compares two words or phrases and tells you whether one is an anagram of the other. It shows the letter counts side by side and highlights any letters that differ.

By Debmedia Technologies LLP · Kolkata, India · Updated

What Is It and When Do You Need It?

Two texts are anagrams if they contain the same letters the same number of times. Word games, crosswords and coding puzzles use the idea, and funny anagrams of names and phrases are a classic pastime.

Enter two texts and see whether they match, with a table of letter counts.

How to Use This Tool

  1. Type the first word or phrase.
  2. Type the second.
  3. Press Check.
  4. Read the verdict and the table of letter counts.

How the Calculation Works

Both texts are lower-cased and stripped of everything but letters and digits. The tool counts how often each character appears and compares the two counts. If every count matches, the texts are anagrams. Otherwise the table shows which letters are extra or missing.

Worked Example

listen and silent are anagrams. Dormitory and dirty room are too. hello and world are not.

Common Uses

  • Word games and crosswords.
  • Coding challenges.
  • Teaching spelling.
  • Checking puzzle answers.

Tips and Common Mistakes

  • Spaces and punctuation are ignored.
  • Digits count as characters.
  • Use the palindrome checker for words that read the same backwards.

Next, you may need the palindrome checker, line sorter, acronym generator, syllable counter.

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Frequently Asked Questions

A word or phrase made by rearranging all the letters of another one exactly once, such as listen and silent.
No. Only letters and digits are compared, and case is ignored, so Dormitory and Dirty room count as anagrams.
Technically it uses the same letters, but anagrams are normally different words. The tool tells you when both inputs are identical.
No. It compares two texts. It does not search a dictionary.

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