Nine-letter puzzle
Nine Letter Word Finder & Target Solver
The nine-letter word puzzle - the “Target” in Australian newspapers - gives you nine letters and one you must use in every word. Enter the nine letters and the centre letter and this solver finds them all, from four-letter words up to the full nine-letter answer.
Use it to check your score, find the words you missed, or crack the elusive nine-letter solution.
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 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.