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If you are totally stuck, click this icon to reveal all the remaining letters and start a new game.
Settings - these include
Classic Xanagrams - Level 1 - Game starts with the first and last letter of every word, the buttons show the letters you need to find. Select a box, then a letter by clicking the appropriate button. A correct guess will score points, get it wrong and you lose points.
If you are stuck and need some help click the
and the letter in the currently selected box will be revealed, however you will points will be deducted. If you are really stuck and want to reveal all the remaining letters so that you can start a new game press 🆕
Classic Xanagrams - Level 2 - As level 1 but a little harder as you start with just the first letter of every word.
Classic Xanagrams - Level 3 - As level 1 but a even harder as all the boxes are empty when you start.
Level 4 - Xangarams Easy Jumble - Similar to Xanagrams Level 3 but the letters appear in the boxes all jumpled up. There is a button for every letter in the word(s).
Level 5 - Xangarams Jumble - This is like the original Xanagrams Jumble, the letters are all jumpled and the buttons show the whole alphabet.
Levels 6 - Xanagrams Word Hunt - Starts with the first and last letter of each word and a button for every letter in the alphabet.
Levels 7 - Xanagrams Super Word Hunt - As Xanagrams Word Hunt but you just get the first letter! This level can be really hard.
Xanagrams uses a set of wordlists that are built form our library of over:
The majority of the Chinese words are from CC-CEDICT and used under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Note: CC-CEDICT database contains Pinyin with numeric tonation, we had to develop an application to help us create standard Hanyu Pinyin character tonation from the numeric tonation format.
The 2019 edition includes extra clues in the form of showing the words in a different language!
Great fun, especially if you are learning one of our featured languages.
Note: Many modern French words are similar to English words so you can choose to play without them.
You get 100 points when you start.
When you make a correct guess you get 50 points
You loose 15 points for an incorrect guess
You loose 50 points if you use the button to reveal the current letter
This is your current highest score for this combination of game, word list and number of words.
High scores are stored as cookies on the device (computer / tablet / phone) you are currently using and does not reflect a higher score you might have acheived on another device.
To see your HIGH scores for this Game and Word list combination click the button below.
Show HIGH ScoresIf you wish to reset the HIGH score for the current game back to ZERO click the Reset Current HIGH Score button below:
Reset Current HIGH ScoreIf you would like to know about the background to Xanagrams click this link
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English Words |
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French Words |
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Spanish Words - Coming soon |
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Chinese Hanyu Pinyin |
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Chinese Hanyu Pinyin with numeric tonation |
Level 1 - You Start With The First And Last Letters - This is the easiest level |
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Level 2 - Just The First Letter |
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Level 3 - No Letters, Just The Buttons |
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Level 4 - Easy Jumble |
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Level 5 - Classic Jumble |
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Level 6 - Word Hunt - Starts with First and Last Letters |
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Level 7 -Super Word Hunt - This is the most difficult level |
List 1 - Common words that are easy to spell (Primary School) |
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List 2 - Every day words (Middle School) |
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List 3 - Less common words and some that are awkward to spell |
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2 Words |
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3 Words (Most popular) |
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4 Words |
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5 Words |
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6 Words |
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7 Words |
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French Words - Excludes words where French and English are similar |
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French Words - Those with similar spelling are included |
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Traditional Chinese |
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Hanyu Pinyin (Romanized Simplified Chinese) |
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Hanyu Pinyin (Romanized Simplified Chinese with tone numbers) |
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Once you have selected the game format click Play and your settings will be stored
Play >>Buttons for every letter in every word |
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The word Access would have 6 buttons | |
Minimize the number of buttons |
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Access would have just 4 buttons |
Show buttons in alphabetic order i.e. ABCDEFG... |
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Show buttons as QWERTY style keyboard |
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Default |
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Large |
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Very Large |
Default (Full Width) |
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Special width options for smaller / older phones
You can reduce the need to scroll left and right by limiting the number of letters across your screen NOTE: If any of the options below are selected the maximum number of words in a game is limited to 4 |
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Limit to 12 Letters across |
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11 Letters across |
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10 Letters across |
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9 Letters across |
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Copyright © 2019 Xanagrams Ltd. All rights reserved.
Original Version: Copyright © 1983 Peter J A Noblett (T/A Dean Software). All rights reserved.
Hi there, I'm Peter Noblett. I originally created the game Xanagrams in 1983 and this version in 2019. Please let me know if something doesn't work. I also love hearing suggestions. Email me at xanagarams@gmail.com.
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