FINDING ANAGRAMS

An anagram of a word (or group of words) is simply a rearrangement of the letters contained therein to give a different word (or group of words). For example the words BLUE ROT can form the anagram TROUBLE.

Begin by entering the word (or words) into the text box provided. Clicking the OK button will begin the process, and in a short time the anagrams found will appear in the list box.

WARNING: If you enter more than a dozen or so letters, you may get a surprisingly large number of anagrams. For example, the words UNITED STATES will yield 2,227 anagrams using the English dictionary provided with this program.

If you use the Shortest word to include in list control, you can reduce this to manageable levels. Setting this control to a value of 3 will reduce the number of anagrams to 1,087 and setting it to 5 will reduce it to just 13. Of course, the time taken to generate the list will be correspondingly reduced.