4 letter words

[Andrew Ofiesh]

I have discovered that there is a set of 6 4-letter words that all have the same 4 letters, that is to say, that they are all anagrams of each other. One time I asked a fried if he could figure out what they were and he came up with a different set of 6. My set of six words consists of only everyday words. You might here or speak all of them in a given week. His set however contains two words that are rather obscure. See if you can find mine or his, or try to do us one better.

If that isn't enough try to make meaningful anagrams of your state's name. I have only come up with one: Massachusettes - Such a state mess. If you live in a state with a short name (Ohio), just add your city's name to it. This won't work very well if you live in New York, New York. And please, don't come up with anything that is obvious for Mississippi.

[jim miller]

a...@luke.mitre.org (Andrew Ofiesh) writes:

>I have discovered that there is a set of 6 4-letter words that all have the same 4 letters, that is to say, that they are all anagrams of each other. One time I asked a fried if he could figure out what they were and he came up with a different set of 6.
> My set of six words consists of only everyday words. You might here or speak all of them in a given week. His set however contains two words that are rather obscure. See if you can find mine or his, or try to do us one better.

Spoilers...


I bet the set of six everyday anagrams you're thinking of is (stop, spot,
post, pots, tops, opts). I remember realizing this one morning on a boring
bus ride to high school.
There are richer sets of letters, I'm sure, but with as many common words?

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[Larry Baum]

In article <1991Aug9.2...@linus.mitre.org> a...@luke.mitre.org (Andrew Ofiesh) writes:
: I have discovered that there is a set of 6 4-letter words that all have the same 4 letters, that is to say, that they are all anagrams of each other. One time I asked a fried if he could figure out what they were and he came up with a different set of 6. My set of six words consists of only everyday words. You might here or speak all of them in a given week. His set however contains two words that are rather obscure. See if you can find mine or his, or try to do us one better.
:
(Have you thought of putting carriage returns to break up
lines?)

stop, spot, post, pots, tops, opts
PTOs if you accept acronyms

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[Warwick Allison]

In <1991Aug9.2...@linus.mitre.org> a...@luke.mitre.org (Andrew Ofiesh) writes:

>I have discovered that there is a set of 6 4-letter words that all have the
>same 4 letters, that is to say, that they are all anagrams of each other.
>One time I asked a fried if he could figure out what they were and he came
>up with a different set of 6. My set of six words consists of only everyday
>words. You might here or speak all of them in a given week. His set however
>contains two words that are rather obscure. See if you can find mine or his,
>or try to do us one better.

Why can I never resist these?

deer dere dree ered rede reed
dear dare eard read rade ared
eels else lees seel sele slee
earl lear laer lare real rale
leas lase seal slae sale ales
leat late tela teal tael tale
lira liar lair rial rail aril
opts post pots spot stop tops *
past pats spat stap taps apts
rues ruse suer sure ures user
rast rats star tsar tars arts
staw swat twas taws wast wats

eras ears rase sera sear ares arse
owts stow swot tows twos wost wots
etas east eats seta seat sate teas taes

Is the "*" one yours?

Five-letters is more fun, you get:

earst resat reast rates stear strae stare teras tears tares arets aster
pears presa prase pares parse reaps rapes spear spaer spare apres asper

Six...

estral laster ratels slater stelar staler salter tarsel alerts alters artels
peltas petals pleats plaste plates palest palets pastel septal staple tepals

Seven...

easting eatings genista gainest ingesta ingates seating teasing tsigane tangies
nastier resiant retinas retsina retains ratines stearin stainer starnie anestri

The best I found for 3 letters is

eta eat tea tae ate

So only 1 and 2 letter words can (easily) be found that all combos are words.

:-(
Warwick.

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[R.W.Thearle]

In article <30...@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> war...@cs.uq.oz.au writes:
>
>Why can I never resist these?
>

>Seven...
>
>easting eatings genista gainest ingesta ingates seating teasing tsigane tangies

signate?

Eleven...

anisometric creationism marcionites miscreation misreaction ramisection
reactionism remications romanticise (aneroticism?)

Me neither.

Roy

[Monty Wilson]

This works:
Stop, pots, post, spot, tops, opts.
,.....Monty.

[Stephen H. Landrum]

Andrew Ofiesh asks for four letter English words that have five or
more anagrams that are also English words



I found:

opts post pots spot stop tops

east eats etas sate seat seta* taes* teas

"Etas" may not be the correct pluralization of eta, but my dictionary
listed no other. "Seta" means bristle, and "taes" is Scottish for
toes. "Tase" may be a valid word now, with Tasers as weapons, but it
was not listed.

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