tools and articles for letters and words

I started word-grabber.com in 2010 to help word enthusiasts like me to find and learn the right words for Scrabble and other word games. Thanks to your feedback, I was able to extend the site not only with more word tools, but articles and other resources around words, letters and word games.

Articles by Thomas Maier

Your feedback in January

In this new post series I want to answer the most popular questions that I think more users might be interested in. The other reason is a huge amount of feedback I get where someone asked a question, but didn’t leave an email where I can reply to.

screenshot new sidebar search form

one (search) for all

I recently evaluated the search requests made using the search form in the sidebar. It showed that a lot of visitores used it for more than just content searches. So I updated the search form to help everyone to find what he or she is looking for.

Pattern field visualization

game-like view of the pattern field

Having problems understanding the pattern field in our different word game generators? The new visualization helps to understand how these patterns look like on a game board. Help us to improve it with your feedback.

List with Scrabble-Helper bonus squares

Added help to enter bonus squares in scrabbler-helper

I just added another nice feature to make using patterns in the Scrabble Helper, the Words With Friends Cheat and other anagram solvers for word games as easy as possible.

Start of anagram topic page

Find information by topics

Within the last few years, we covered a lot of topics around word games. For some of them there are already quite a few articles and we decided to gather them on their own topic pages. Find a list of these pages below. Anagrams Scrabble Word Mole Wordfeud Words With Friends Each page contains short […]

How to get help for Word Mole

After answering a lot of questions regarding Word Mole, we tried to reach out to its developers. Unfortunately, this is not an easy task. Maybe the Blackberry forum can help you with your questions.

Option buttons on smartphones

Option buttons fixed

I just fixed the option buttons that randomly didn’t work. Please have a look at my solution trying one of our word searches.

Sheldon playing Words With Friends

Stephen Hawking and Words With Friends

In one of the most recent episodes of The Big Bang Theory Sheldon played a game of Words With Friends against Stephen Hawking. Read more about what you didn’t already know about the game, that is on purpose not called “Words With Strangers”.

word profiles now provide more information on words

There is more to words than just letters. We recently launched word profile pages to help you learn more about words in various word games. Read about the latest content extension in this article.

Wrong Scrabble-Words

Our Scrabble Helper might suggest words that are not accepted in your Scrabble app. Read here about the reasons.