Dictionary statistics

A look inside the word lists that power the Anagrams Generator — counts, lengths, palindromes, and the richest anagram sets in each of our nine languages.

Total words 7,967,829
Languages 10
Anagram sets 6,303,020
Biggest dictionary Portuguese 2,439,013 words

An “anagram set” is a group of words that share the exact same letters. The more words in a set, the richer it is. The deepest set we found is in Portuguese with 54 words built from the letters aceiorst.

Per-language overview

Language Words Avg. length Std. dev. Longest Vowels Anagram sets
English 283,992 9.13 2.7 18 (absentmindednesses) 39.7% 250,836
Danish 830,960 11.37 3.31 18 (aarhushistoriernes) 35.8% 733,381
French 437,086 10.18 2.68 18 (abracadabrantesque) 43.8% 353,296
German 282,757 11.37 3.04 18 (abfotografierbarem) 37% 260,436
Italian 826,443 12.63 2.26 16 (abbacchiandocela) 46.3% 644,322
Norwegian (Bokmål) 835,251 11.9 3.31 18 (abonnementsarkiver) 36.4% 740,583
Norwegian (Nynorsk) 590,631 10.98 3.28 18 (abonnementsarkivet) 37.2% 528,812
Portuguese 2,439,013 11.28 2.63 16 (ababadadoramente) 45.8% 1,661,161
Spanish 655,904 10.24 2.45 18 (acabestrillaríamos) 45.4% 435,630
Swedish 785,792 11.31 3.05 18 (abdikationsakterna) 34.1% 694,563

Richest anagram sets

The single set of letters with the most valid words in each language — the jackpot for anagram lovers.

LanguageWords in setLettersExamples
Portuguese 54 aceiorst acorites, açorites, acroítes, astérico, atrésico, atrições, atricose, cerasito, cerástio, cerátios
Norwegian (Bokmål) 31 aekrst akters, arkets, ekstra, karets, kartes, kåsert, kaster, kraset, kraste, kretas
Spanish 31 aacenrs acensar, arcasen, arencas, cañares, cansare, cansaré, cansera, carenas, casaren, caserna
Swedish 26 aakrst askträ, kärast, karats, kårats, kårsta, kärsta, kartas, kastar, krasat, kratsa
Danish 23 aeknrs ankers, ankres, arkens, erkans, kaners, karens, kårens, karsen, kerans, knaser
Norwegian (Nynorsk) 21 aeknst aksent, atensk, eknast, enkast, kasent, kasten, knaset, kneast, kneåst, knesta
French 20 aeirst aîtres, arités, astier, irstea, itéras, restai, rétais, retias, satire, serait
Italian 16 aaacceilortt accalorateti, accoratateli, accoratitela, carataticelo, caratatoceli, caratatoleci, caricatatelo, caricatotela, carotataceli, carotataleci
English 14 aerst arets, aster, earst, rates, reast, resat, stare, stear, strae, tares
German 11 ceehinrst enterichs, entsicher, entsichre, erscheint, erschient, reichsten, scheitern, schreiten, sicherten, streichen

Word-length distribution

How word lengths are spread across each dictionary (1 to 16+ letters).

English283,992
1816+
Danish830,960
1816+
French437,086
1816+
German282,757
1816+
Italian826,443
1816+
Norwegian (Bokmål)835,251
1816+
Norwegian (Nynorsk)590,631
1816+
Portuguese2,439,013
1816+
Spanish655,904
1816+
Swedish785,792
1816+

Palindromes

Words that read the same backwards, like “level”.

LanguageCountShareLongest
English 199 0.07% malayalam (9)
Danish 258 0.031% regninger (9)
French 112 0.026% essayasse (9)
German 56 0.02% rentner (7)
Italian 54 0.007% alesatasela (11)
Norwegian (Bokmål) 162 0.019% regninger (9)
Norwegian (Nynorsk) 164 0.028% reiedeier (9)
Portuguese 282 0.012% malaialam (9)
Spanish 114 0.017% somarramos (10)
Swedish 145 0.018% stålplåts (9)

All-different letters

Words where every letter is unique — no repeats.

LanguageCountShare
English 54,448 19.2%
Danish 78,942 9.5%
French 61,372 14%
German 22,113 7.8%
Italian 9,354 1.1%
Norwegian (Bokmål) 52,208 6.3%
Norwegian (Nynorsk) 64,298 10.9%
Portuguese 149,147 6.1%
Spanish 56,726 8.6%
Swedish 71,144 9.1%

Built from open Hunspell dictionaries (expanded to full word forms) plus a large English word list. Want to try them? Head to the anagrams generator.