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