Anagram examples
A set of anagram examples, from short everyday words to richer rearrangements, each one checked against the dictionary this site actually uses.
Everything below was worked out from the dictionary this site actually runs on, so each set is a genuine, checkable anagram rather than a repeated textbook example.
The interesting question is how many real words share one set of letters. Two swapping places happens often enough. Three is worth a second look. Four or more - the classic being listen, silent, enlist, tinsel - is uncommon enough that the same few examples get recycled everywhere, which is why the sets below were worked out fresh from the wordlist this site actually ships rather than lifted from somewhere else.
Longer sets get rarer as the word grows, for a structural reason rather than bad luck: the count of possible letter orderings explodes, but the count of real words does not keep pace. A six-letter word with four genuine anagrams is findable; a twelve-letter one practically never has one. That is why anagram puzzles nearly always sit at short or medium length.
Each group below is ordered with the richest sets first, and every word links through to its own page. Looking for the anagrams of one particular word rather than browsing? The solver on the home page answers that directly.
- alger - elgar, glare, lager, large, regal6 words
- darin - dinar, drain, indra, nadir, randi6 words
- ergo - goer, gore, ogre, oreg, roeg6 words
- leapt - lepta, patel, petal, plate, pleat6 words
- least - slate, stael, stale, steal, tesla6 words
- abel - able, bale, bela, elba5 words
- aden - dane, dean, dena, edna5 words
- adorn - drano, norad, radon, ronda5 words
- amble - blame, mabel, mable, melba5 words
- arno - aron, nora, oran, roan5 words
- aster - resat, stare, taser, treas5 words
- astir - sitar, stair, stria, tarsi5 words