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About Word Sieve

Word Sieve is a word solver that runs in your browser against a dictionary you can read. You type the letters you have; the site tells you every word in ENABLE1 — a public-domain list of 172,820 words — that those letters can build, longest first. The whole computation happens in your tab, the list it searches is served in plain text for anyone to check, and when there is nothing to find the page says so in those words rather than showing you something close.

Three rules, and they are load-bearing

Every answer is the dictionary's answer. The sieve reports what the list contains and nothing else — it never invents a word, never pads a thin result, and never quietly substitutes a near miss. When a rack builds nothing, that is printed as a result with the search size named, because "the dictionary has no word for these letters" is information, and a page that hides it behind suggestions is lying about what it looked up. Every figure on these pages — the word count, the index size, the shard bytes — is computed from the shipped files rather than typed in, so it can be checked by someone who is not us.

Nothing you type is sent. There is no account, no log, and no server of ours that ever receives a rack. The only network requests a solve can make are for the site's own dictionary files, and the page's security policy pins every direction to this origin alone — so this is a property your browser enforces rather than a sentence we wrote. The privacy page states it in full.

The limits are published. The methodology page names the dictionary, its size, its age, and what it does not contain — no proper nouns, no recent coinages, and none of the proprietary lists that govern competitive play. It also explains both search paths the solver uses and where each is slow. A word site that will not show you its word list is asking to be taken at its word; this one serves the list.

What is deliberately missing

There is no tournament word list here and none will be added. The lists that decide competitive play are proprietary compilations; this site checks a general public-domain list and labels the question it can answer honestly — whether a word is in ENABLE1, not whether a word is legal in your game. There is also no curation of the list: no additions, no deletions, no patched entries, because a privately edited word list is one nobody can check, and checkability is the product.

Who runs it

The site is built and run by an independent developer, and it will be paid for by advertising in the written parts of the pages. None is being shown yet: the places advertising will go are marked in the markup and are inert, no advertising script is loaded on any route, and the privacy policy says the same and will be updated before that changes. No advertising will sit inside the solver panel itself — the instrument is the part of the page that has to be trusted.

Corrections are welcome and are treated as bugs rather than as opinions — the numbers are published with their sources so that they can be checked. Get in touch, or read the terms of use.