Scarab.

This page available in: French, English.

Introduction

Scarab is a Scrabble dictionary: give it some letters, it will list all known words that can be written using all these letters.

The database can be queried in the following ways:

Regular search (button labeled "Scarab lookup") looks for words that can be written using only the submitted letters, used in any order.
Anagram search (button labeled "Scarab exact lookup") looks for words containing each of the submitted letters exactly once.

Scarab avoids sending inordinately large replies by limiting the number of words per query to 2048 (for this version). When the limit is hit, words are given in an unspecified order. Otherwise, words are sorted by length and then alphabetically.

Database

Scarab's database used to be based on Christophe Pythoud and Christophe Pallier's Liste de mots du français. One-letter words and compound words have been elided from this list, leaving 331781 remaining entries.

As of 2007-01-26, Scarab used the official list of French words acceptable for Scrabble: the "ODS4"; L'Officiel du jeu Scrabble–édition 2003, Larousse, ISBN 2035602874. This list comprises 369085 entries.

Since 2008-01-18, Scarab uses the "ODS5"; L'Officiel du jeu Scrabble–édition 2007, Larousse, ISBN 2035822203. This is a list of 378989 words: compared to the previous version, 9905 words have been added, and one has been removed.

See also: French English words, a list of words that can be played in both languages.