What does Namesmith do?

It treats each name as a bag of letter tiles and searches 20,000 real English words to find every word each name can spell on its own — and the words that need letters from both names at once.

What makes a word an 'A + B' word?

Neither name alone has the letters for it, but the combined letter pool does. Those words belong to the pair — they only exist when the two names join.

How are the words ordered?

By how often each word appears in everyday language, so the most familiar finds surface first. The small number on each chip is its usage count in a large text corpus.

Yes — free, no login, no ads. Everything runs in your browser; the names you type never leave your device.

Word game · two names in, a hidden dictionary out

Namesmith

Every name is a little bag of letter tiles. Pour two of them out together and see which English words were hiding inside — the ones only name A can spell, the ones only name B can spell, and the words that only exist when the two names join. Ranked by how common each word is in real life.

Name A

Name B

Try: Priya + Arjun Elizabeth + Christopher Lakshmi + Ganesh Romeo + Juliet

name a

name b

press "Smash the names" to begin

Spellable by either name on its own

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How the smithy works

three simple moves

1 · Letter signatures

Each name becomes a count of its letters — alexandra owns three a's, one l, one e, one x, one n, one d, one r. A word fits a name only if the name's bag covers every letter it needs.

2 · Three territories

Only A: fits name A but not name B. Only B: the reverse. A + B: impossible for either name alone — these words need the combined letter pool, so they belong to the pair.

3 · Ranked by real usage

The dictionary is 20,000 real English words ordered by how often they appear in everyday language, so the most familiar finds surface first. The tiny number on each chip is its usage count in a large text corpus.

Questions players ask

Why do some words say they need both names?

Neither name alone has all the letters — one is missing an s, the other a p — but pooled together the letters are all there. Those words genuinely belong to the pair; they appear the moment the two names join and vanish if either leaves.

Can I click a word to see it built?

Yes — click any chip and watch the tiles fly out of the two racks into the word, letter by letter. The trail under the word shows exactly which name each letter came from (A4 means the fourth tile of name A).

Do the names I type go anywhere?

No. Everything runs inside your browser — the 20,000-word dictionary ships with the page and the search happens on your device. Nothing is sent, stored, or tracked.

Which names work best?

Longer names with varied letters give the richest results — and two names with different letters give the most "A + B" words, because each name fills the other's gaps. Try a short name against a long one and watch the territories shift.

Two names walk in. A hidden dictionary walks out.