A surprising number of “anagram checkers” only compare which letters appear, not how many times each one does — which quietly passes pairs like “aab” and “abb” that share the same letters but not the same counts. Ours doesn’t make that mistake.
Our new anagram checker works the way an anagram actually should be judged:
- Ignores spaces and punctuation — “the eyes” and “they see” are compared as letters only, the standard rule for phrase anagrams.
- Exact letter counts — not just “do they share letters,” but “do they share the same letters the same number of times.”
- Shows its work — the normalized, sorted form of each phrase and a full letter-count breakdown sit right below the verdict.
- Three example pairs — including the classic “astronomer” / “moon starer” — one click fills both boxes.
Both phrases sync to the URL, since short inputs like these aren’t private the way pasted prose is — the same deliberate exception this hub makes for palindrome-checker and slug-generator.
Also available en español and embeddable with a single iframe.