{"id":1679,"date":"2012-09-23T11:59:59","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T01:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2012-11-08T22:46:16","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T12:46:16","slug":"most-anagrammatical-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2012\/09\/23\/most-anagrammatical-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Anagrammatical Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;But, Julian,&#8221; I hear you ask, &#8220;What words in the English language have the most anagrams?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, based on a English dictionary I found on my computer, there are two sets: TEARS and PEARS.<\/p>\n<p>Here they are, for each word-length:<\/p>\n<table class=\"simple\">\n<tr>\n<th>Len<\/th>\n<th>Count<\/th>\n<th>Anagrams<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>3<\/th>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>ETA, TAE, ATE, EAT, TEA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>4<\/th>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<td>TAES, SETA, ETAS, TEAS, EATS, SEAT, SATE, ATES, EAST<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th rowspan=2>5<\/th>\n<td rowspan=2>13<\/td>\n<td>EARST, REAST, STEAR, STARE, TARES, RESAT, ASTER, TASER, TERAS, TEARS, ARETS, RATES, STRAE<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>PARES, SPEAR, PRESA, PEARS, PARSE, RAPES, PRASE, SPARE, SPAER, ASPER, APERS, APRES, REAPS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>6<\/th>\n<td>12<\/td>\n<td>ARTELS, TARSEL, STALER, ALERTS, ESTRAL, SALTER, TALERS, STELAR, SLATER, LASTER, ALTERS, RATELS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th rowspan=2>7<\/th>\n<td rowspan=2>11<\/td>\n<td>GAINEST, SEATING, TSIGANE, TEASING, TAGINES, INGATES, TANGIES, EATINGS, EASTING, GENISTA, INGESTA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>RETSINA, RETAINS, STARNIE, NASTIER, STEARIN, RETINAS, RESIANT, ANESTRI, RATINES, STAINER, ANTSIER<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>8<\/th>\n<td>11<\/td>\n<td>GRANITES, TASERING, GANISTER, ASTRINGE, ANGRIEST, INGRATES, GANTRIES, ANGSTIER, REASTING, STEARING, RANGIEST<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>9<\/th>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>ITERANCES, CENTIARES, CISTERNAE, NECTARIES, CREATINES, ENCRATIES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th rowspan=2>10<\/th>\n<td rowspan=2>5<\/td>\n<td>RECAUTIONS, CAUTIONERS, NOCTUARIES, COINTREAUS, RECUSATION<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>POTTINGERS, POTTERINGS, REPOTTINGS, RESPOTTING, PROTESTING<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>11<\/th>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>MISCREATION, REACTIONISM, ANISOMETRIC, ROMANICITES, CREATIONISM, ROMANTICISE<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th rowspan=2>12<\/th>\n<td rowspan=2>4<\/td>\n<td>REACTIONISMS, CREATIONISMS, MISCREATIONS, ROMANTICISES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>NEPHROLOGIES, PIGEONHOLERS, PHRENOLOGISE, PHRENOLOGIES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th rowspan=2>13<\/th>\n<td rowspan=2>3<\/td>\n<td>ELECTRISATION, ACETONITRILES, INTERSOCIETAL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>ACCOUTREMENTS, ACCOUTERMENTS, ACCOUSTREMENT<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>14<\/th>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>INDISCRETENESS, INDIRECTNESSES, INDISCREETNESS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>15<\/th>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>PHONOGRAMICALLY, GRAMOPHONICALLY, MONOGRAPHICALLY, NOMOGRAPHICALLY<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>I hope that answers your question satisfactorily. You&#8217;re welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;But, Julian,&#8221; I hear you ask, &#8220;What words in the English language have the most anagrams?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[33,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzle-solving","category-thoughts-from-the-shower"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1687,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions\/1687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}