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Is this the most words that can be formed by rearranging the same letters?

Asked by LostInParadise (31926points) October 9th, 2011

The letters in spot can be arranged to form an additional 5 words:
opts, post, pots, stop,tops
That is a total of 6 words. Can anyone do better, I dare you.

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Jeruba's avatar

Yes, that’s all there are for that particular group of letters.

Any time you want to examine a word’s or expression’s anagramming possibilities, go here:
http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/
(Use ‘Advanced’ if you want to see only one-word anagrams.)

This thread does not have to end here. Jellies, what are some of your favorite anagrammable words? Here are several of mine:

name
time
live
staple

lillycoyote's avatar

@Jeruba O.K., I’ll take up your challenge! One of my favorite, as of tonight, anagrammable words is “laughter,” so here we go:

Lager Hut. Sounds like my kind of place!
Hare glut. More rabbits than you really want.
Alert! Ugh! Response to someone trying wake you out of a sound sleep in the morning.
Later! Hug! Similar to the air kiss
Hat gruel. I’d rather eat cardboard soup, thank you!
A leg hurt! When you’re in so much pain you can’t form complete sentences.
Halt Urge! Self-control, I must exercise some self-control here!
Earl Thug. An aristocratic loan shark’s enforcer.
Ah! Gel Rut! Time to get a new do, I guess.

LostInParadise's avatar

@Jeruba, You equaled my six words using the six letter word staple. That is neat. Have you ever listened to NPR on Sunday mornings? Will Shortz, crossword editor of the N Y Times, gives word challenges from submissions by listeners. I think your example would make a good challenge, to come up with six letters than can be arranged to form a word in six different ways.

Jeruba's avatar

No, @LostInParadise, but I’ve seen his columns in Games magazine.

I worked out the “stop” group when I was a kid playing with words, but I didn’t happen on “staple” until I started playing a computer version of Perquackey with my husband maybe 25 or 30 years ago. I learned to look for certain letter groups immediately (item, mean…) because I knew they were good for anagrams. As soon as I saw the letters in pastel appear (plates, pleats, palest…), I knew I could fill my six-word column as fast as I could type. I used to beat the kr*p out of him at Perquackey.

bea2345's avatar

One of the reasons I never learned to drive was (and still is) my habit of working out anagrams from shop signs, billboards and the like. It is a distracting hobby.

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