Nine-letter Target puzzle
9 Letter Word Solver
This 9 letter word solver cracks the nine-letter puzzle - the “Target” in Australian newspapers - which gives you nine letters and one centre letter that every word must use. Enter the nine letters and the centre letter and it finds them all, from four-letter words up to the full nine-letter answer.
Use it as a nine letter word solver to check your score, find the words you missed, or crack the elusive nine-letter solution. Want to play instead of solve? Try the daily 9 letter word puzzle.
Finds every word of four letters or more built from those nine letters - each must include the centre letter. The full nine-letter answer is flagged.
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Nine-letter words
There are 24,873 nine-letter words - the kind that solve a Target. Here are high-scoring examples; the solver above finds the answer for your specific nine letters.
Highest-scoring picks
More nine-letter words (24,873 in total - use the finder above for every one)
- Aardvarks
- Acceptors
- Additions
- Affiliate
- Alfilaria
- Alumroots
- Analysand
- Annuluses
- Antiviral
- Aquariums
- Arthrosis
- Astrolabe
- Autocross
- Backpacks
- Banterers
- Baudekins
- Beflagged
- Bereavers
- Bignonias
- Blacklead
- Bluestone
- Botanicas
- Breathier
- Bucketing
- Buttinski
- Calvaries
- Capsicums
- Carryback
- Catnapper
- Cesspools
- Cheeriest
- Chorionic
- Clamworms
- Coadapted
- Cofactors
- Colophons
- Complices
- Conglobed
- Convokers
- Correctly
- Crabstick
- Crocheter
- Cumulated
- Cytotoxin
- Debauched
- Defalcate
- Demagogue
- Derailing
- Developes
- Didappers
- Disarrays
- Displease
- Divulging
- Downfield
- Drouthier
- Ealdormen
- Eisegeses
- Emergence
- Endotoxic
- Enteritis
- Epizootic
- Estranger
- Evolution
- Exotoxins
- Eyepoints
- Fathering
- Fiberized
- Fisherman
- Flimflams
- Foolproof
- Forjudged
- Freshness
- Furfurans
- Garnished
- Geoprobes
- Globalist
- Graciosos
- Grimacers
- Gunpapers
- Handblown
- Hatefully
- Helistops
- Highlands
- Homophony
- Huarachos
- Hypomanic
- Immeshing
- Inaugural
- Ineffably
- Inorganic
- Interfuse
- Invocated
- Itinerate
- Joyfuller
- Kibbutzim
- Labdanums
- Larrupers
- Legislate
- Lightship
- Loathsome
- Loyalists
- Magnesias
- Manometry
- Matricide
- Meltdowns
- Methodise
- Millraces
- Mishanter
- Misworded
- Monohulls
- Motorizes
- Mushrooms
- Naturisms
- Newspeaks
- Nondances
- Nonvisual
- Objection
- Oghamists
- Oratories
- Outcharge
- Outpushed
- Ovenproof
- Overmelts
- Ovotestes
- Pamphlets
- Pardoners
- Paunchier
- Pentarchs
- Pertained
- Phototube
- Piosities
- Playbooks
- Polishers
- Possessed
- Precensor
- Preputial
- Principia
- Proneness
- Psilocins
- Pushdowns
- Quietened
- Rapparees
- Rebellion
- Rectangle
- Reentrant
- Regrowths
- Relinking
- Repeaters
- Resalutes
- Restrains
- Reversals
- Rightward
- Roughhewn
- Saintdoms
- Sarodists
- Schizonts
- Screaming
- Sectility
- Separates
- Shampooed
- Shoeshine
- Sightless
- Skewbacks
- Slouchier
- Snowbirds
- Somewhats
- Spatulate
- Splodging
- Squiffier
- Staysails
- Stoicisms
- Strongman
- Subleases
- Sufflated
- Superpimp
- Sweetener
- Syntonies
- Tariffing
- Temporise
- Theogonic
- Thrusting
- Tokenisms
- Toxaemias
- Treasurer
- Trisomies
- Turbinals
- Umbellets
- Uncrossed
- Unfencing
- Unmingles
- Unsubdued
- Upstaring
- Vanishing
- Vermiform
- Virtually
- Waistcoat
- Wearables
- Whodunnit
- Wolverine
- Xanthones
From the makers of this tool
Love words? You'll love Decode.
Crack hidden phrases symbol-by-symbol, climb the Temple Ascent, and race the daily cipher. Hand-crafted puzzles, no ads.
Free on the App Store · iPhone & iPad · No ads.
Frequently asked questions
What is the nine-letter Target puzzle?
A grid of nine letters with one letter in the centre. You make as many words of four or more letters as you can, every word must use the centre letter, and there is at least one word that uses all nine letters.
How do I find the nine-letter word?
Enter all nine letters and the centre letter above. The solver lists every valid word, groups them by length, and flags the full nine-letter answer at the top.
What 9 letter words can I make with these letters?
Type your nine letters into the solver above and it returns every word of four letters or more that those letters can spell, longest first - including the nine-letter answer if one exists. Leave the centre letter blank to see every combination rather than only Target-legal words.
Is this 9 letter word solver free?
Yes - free, no sign-up, no limit on solves. It runs entirely in your browser against the public-domain ENABLE tournament word list, so answers appear instantly and nothing you type is sent anywhere.
What counts as a valid Target word?
Four letters or more, using only the nine given letters (each no more than it appears), and always including the centre letter. Proper nouns and hyphenated words don’t count.
Can I play the nine-letter puzzle here too?
Yes - the daily 9 letter word puzzle gives you a fresh nine-letter grid every day with scoring, so you can play first and only use this solver when you are stuck.