Built for a rack, not a puzzle
This page answers a different question from the anagram solver, even though the two share an engine. An anagram has one answer and uses every letter. A rack of tiles has dozens of answers of different lengths, and the one you want is usually decided by where it will fit on the board.
So this page defaults to showing everything the letters can make, and gives you the length filter under More options. If you need a five-letter word and nothing else, say so and ignore the rest.
Blank tiles
A question mark is one blank. AELRT? is five letters plus a blank; AELRT?? is five plus two. Blanks widen the results considerably, so it is worth pairing them with an exact length.
Tile scores are a guide, not a ruling
Each result shows a tile score using standard English letter values. It is there to help you compare options quickly. It is not your score for a particular play — board multipliers, bingo bonuses and blanks scoring zero all change the real number, and different games use different tile values entirely.
Worth knowing before you play it
LikelyWord is not an official game dictionary. Results come from a general US English word-frequency list. Scrabble uses TWL or SOWPODS depending on where you are, Words With Friends maintains its own list, and none of them match. A word found here can be challenged. We would rather say so than let you lose a turn on our say-so.
Related tools
For a puzzle where every letter must be used, the anagram solver is the better starting point. For a grid with known letters and empty squares, use the crossword helper. For browsing rather than solving, the word lists cover length and starting letter.