How the phrase unscrambler works

A phrase is really several small puzzles in a row. We solve each scrambled word on its own, then put the sentence back together in the order you typed it.

1. 1

   Your phrase is split into tokens

   We break the input on anything that is not a letter — spaces, commas, dashes, apostrophes — and keep those separators aside so the punctuation and spacing you typed come back untouched in the results.

2. 2

   Each word is solved as an exact anagram

   Unlike the single-word unscrambler, a phrase word must use every letter you gave it. We sort its letters into a signature and look up the dictionary entries that share that exact signature, so “eht” only ever becomes “the”.

3. 3

   One-letter words pass straight through

   “a” and “I” cannot be scrambled, so they hold their slot as-is. That means phrases like “able was a dragon” solve normally instead of failing on the short word.

4. 4

   Candidates are ranked, not guessed

   When a word has several anagrams (“stop / spot / pots”), we score the possible sentences using word-type information — common patterns like article·noun·verb read better — and show the most plausible readings first.

5. 5

   You control the presentation

   Language toggles decide which dictionaries count, the case switcher formats the output as lower, UPPER, First letter or Proper Case, and copy-to-clipboard grabs everything on screen in one click.

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