word-cheat.pl
Find the "best" anagrams for a given list of letters
Possibly useful for cheating at or learning Scrabble or other games
The code expects the reference dictionary to be formatted:
- in all UPPERCASE
- with unix-style line terminators
The input can be in UPPER, lower, or MiXeD case.
ENABLE, the "Enhanced North American Benchmark Lexicon", is a public domain
word list. A compatibly formatted copy is included.
My primary goal was to do this correctly using recursion.
I think that was successful, but it resulted in being very slow for longer
inputs. 11 characters can easily take 30 sec or more.