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Check whether two words or phrases are anagrams of each other.
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Two words or phrases are anagrams if they're made of exactly the same letters, just rearranged. This tool checks any two entries instantly.
Enter two words or phrases. The result appears instantly.
Normalize both strings (lowercase, strip non-alphanumeric characters), sort each one's letters alphabetically, and compare.
Suppose you enter "Dormitory" and "Dirty room". Each entry is lowercased and stripped of everything except letters a to z and digits 0 to 9, giving "dormitory" and "dirtyroom". Sorting the letters of each produces the same string, "dimoorrrty", so the tool reports that they are anagrams. Nine letters on each side, with the letter r appearing three times in both, is what makes the match work.
Now try "Listen" and "Silence". The second phrase has an extra c and e, so the cleaned strings differ in length and the result is Not an Anagram. Length mismatch is the fastest sanity check you can do by eye: if the letter counts differ after ignoring spaces and punctuation, no rearrangement can work.
Two strings are rearrangements of one another exactly when they contain the same letters the same number of times. Sorting puts letters in a canonical order, so if the multiset of letters is the same, the sorted results are identical, and if any letter count differs, the sorted results differ. That is why the tool does not need to try any permutations, which would be enormous for long phrases. The comparison is fast even for very long inputs.
The most frequent slip is a typo that changes one letter, for example "conversation" versus "voices rant on" spelled with a missing letter. The tool cannot tell you which letter is off, only that the multisets differ. When a pair you expected to match fails, count the letters on each side and compare them one letter at a time.
Another trap is treating a word-order rearrangement as an anagram. "Dog bites man" against "Man bites dog" is a match here because the letters are identical, but many puzzle traditions require the rearrangement to be at the letter level with different words, and consider a reordering of the same words a lesser find.
Note that the tool answers a yes-or-no question. It does not generate anagrams or suggest possible rearrangements of a word.
No -- "listen" and "silent" match, and so would "New York Times" against any exact letter rearrangement, spaces ignored.
No. Both entries are lowercased and stripped of spaces and punctuation before the letters are sorted, so those differences never affect the result.
Yes, in this tool. Two identical entries contain exactly the same letters, so the comparison passes. If you require a different word, check that yourself.
No. It only checks whether the two entries you provide are rearrangements of each other. It does not search a dictionary or generate suggestions.
Accent marks are stripped before comparing, so "état" and "taet" are treated as the same letters. Letters from other alphabets are compared as they are.