Anagrams in Connections
Compare full letter multisets including repetitions.
How to test the relationship
Count letters rather than comparing silhouettes. Sort the full spellings or make a frequency table. A repeated letter must recur equally often, and an extra plural S breaks an exact anagram even when the result looks familiar.
Worked original example 1
STOP, POTS, TOPS, SPOT each have exactly these letter counts: O×1, P×1, S×1, T×1. Order changes; no letter is added or removed.
Worked original example 2
EAST, EATS, SEAT, TEAS each have exactly these letter counts: A×1, E×1, S×1, T×1. Order changes; no letter is added or removed.
Worked original example 3
LISTEN, SILENT, ENLIST, TINSEL each have exactly these letter counts: E×1, I×1, L×1, N×1, S×1, T×1. Order changes; no letter is added or removed.
When a tempting match falls short
STOPS is not an anagram of STOP: their full letter counts differ. A similar spelling cannot replace the exact multiset check.
By FiveLetterWords. Updated .
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