How Many Anagrams Are There?

Authors

Rex Gooch

Abstract

This short article was prompted by the formula for Prob(N) in Michael Keith's "What are the odds that X is an anagram of Y?" in Word Ways, August 2000. It seemed to me that multiplying the values of that function by the square of the number of words of a given length might be expected to give an estimate of the number of words of a given length that are permutations of another word.

Recommended Citation

Gooch, Rex (2000) "How Many Anagrams Are There?," Word Ways: Vol. 33 : Iss. 4 , Article 8.
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