An anagram is a rearrangement of the letters of a word to form a different word. To find all of the anagrams of a word using Lexifind, just enter the letters of that word in the Rack Letters: field of the Make Words column, leaving the Board Area: field empty, and making sure that sorting in that column is set to "Word Length." If the word has any anagrams, they will be at the front of the result list, along with the word itself.

Lexifind will return all of the words that can be made with the letters of the word that you have entered, even if they do not use all of the letters of your original word. A true anagram, however, must use all of the letters of a word, so only the entries at the front of the result list that include all of the letters that are in your original word will be true anagrams.

Try entering the letters of the word BOAST in the Rack Letters: field of the Make Words column. There are five letters, and since BOAST is itself a word, it appears in the result list - as it happens, in the first position of that list. We can see that it has a length of five, and so now we can use the right arrow button to display, one at a time, any other words that might have a length of five, and which therefore use all of the letters that we have entered. By doing this, we find that the next three results, BOATS, BOTAS and SABOT, are also of length 5 and are therefore the anagrams of BOAST. However, the next word, ABOS, has a length of 4, and so is not a proper anagram, since it incorporates only four of the five letters that are in BOAST.

Although it seems ironic and perhaps a little unfair, the word ANAGRAM itself does not have any anagrams. Try entering it in the Letters: field of Make Words, just as we have entered BOAST above. Once again, the word itself, ANAGRAM, will appear at the front of the list of words, since we are sorting by word length. However, when we click on the right arrow button, we see that the second word in the list, AMARNA, has only six letters, while ANAGRAM has seven. When no words of equal length can be made from the letters of a word, then we know that it has no anagrams.

This is the same approach that we would use to solve a scrambled word puzzle such as Wordchallenge or Scramble, only in that case the original letters are not arranged to make a word, and Lexifind will rearrange them to find the longest word that it can. If the letters entered are in fact the scrambled letters of a single word, then that word will be the longest word found, and so will be at the front of the result list. For example, if you enter the letters MAGARNA in the Rack Letters: field of Make Words, they will be unscrambled to form the word ANAGRAM.

Such a scrambled word need not be an anagram of any other word, because there might be only one word that can be made using all of the scrambled letters (as is the case for MAGARNA, above). But still, our method for finding the word that can be made from the scrambled letters is the same as the method that we use to find anagrams.