Text Twist solver
A Text Twist round is not one answer, it is dozens. You need the long word to advance and all the short ones to score, so this returns everything from three letters upward, grouped by length. Start at the top for the round-ender, then work down for points.
- 3 letters
- The shortest word Text Twist accepts, and the fastest points in a round
- Every word
- Not just the anagrams. A full round needs the short ones too
- Instant
- Runs on your device, which matters when a round is timed
Clear the short words first
The instinct is to hunt for the long word immediately, and it is the wrong order. The three and four letter words are quick, they all score, and typing them keeps your hands busy while the back of your mind works on the long one.
There is a practical reason too. Typing the short words shows you which letters combine, and that often hands you the long word for free. Finding TALE and RATS from STARTLE puts you one step from STARLET without ever consciously looking for it.
A round is worth more when you find forty short words and no long one than when you find the long one and nothing else.
Sweep the three-letter words
Vowel plus consonant plus vowel, then the reverse. Most of them come from a handful of patterns and you can clear a dozen in fifteen seconds.
Add S and ED to what you found
Almost every four-letter word you have typed becomes a five-letter word with an S. This is where the bulk of a round's score comes from.
Then look for the ending
With most of the letters already familiar, the full-length word usually resolves into a stem plus -ER, -ED, -LE or -ING. That is the moment the round ends.
Rounds worth practising
These are the shapes that come up most: a common stem plus a productive ending. Each opens in the solver so you can check yourself afterwards.
Text Twist against the other tools
The anagram solver returns only words using every letter, which is what you want for a puzzle with a single answer.
The jumble solver does the same thing but weights everyday words first, for newspaper puzzles.
This page is the broad one, because a Text Twist round genuinely wants all of it.
About Text Twist
Do I have to use all the letters?
Not for most of the round. Text Twist gives you six or seven letters and accepts any word of three letters or more, so a round is mostly about volume. You only need the word that uses every letter to advance to the next round, which is why it is worth finding early and then filling in the rest.
Why does the solver show three-letter words?
Because they count. Text Twist scores every valid word you find, and the three-letter ones are the fastest points available when the clock is running. That is the main difference between this and the anagram solver, which only returns words using all the letters.
How do I find the six-letter word faster?
Look for the ending first. If the letters contain an S, an ER, an ED or an ING, set those aside and solve the shorter word that remains. Most Text Twist rounds are an ordinary four or five letter word plus one of a handful of endings.
After that, try the vowels in the middle. Six-letter words very rarely start with two vowels, so if you are holding two you can usually place one in position two or three.
The game rejected a word this solver found
Different dictionary. Text Twist and its clones use their own word list, which is generally smaller and more conservative than a tournament list. Obscure inflections and dialect words are the usual casualties.
Ours is based on ENABLE, which is a word-game list rather than a casual-game one. More on what that means here.
Is there a way to practise rather than cheat?
Yes, and it is more useful. Play the round out, then put the letters in here afterwards and look at what you missed. You will find the same shapes recurring, and after a few rounds you start seeing them during the game instead of after it.