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Anagrams of LEAST

10 words use exactly A E L S T

  • Common 5
  • least5
  • slate5
  • stale5
  • steal5
  • tales5
  • Everyday 1
  • teals5
  • Less common 3
  • stela5
  • taels5
  • tesla5
  • Rare 1
  • setal5

Every word in ENABLE (a public-domain Scrabble-style list) made of exactly these 5 letters, slurs removed, common words first. 5 are common in English dictionaries (the SCOWL grade); TEALS is everyday; STELA, TAELS and TESLA are less common; SETAL is rare. Each scores 5 points at face value. It is number 3 of the 10 groups with the most common anagrams, out of 830 groups that qualify.

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The page is named LEAST because the rule names each group after its most common member, and LEAST ties with SLATE, STALE, STEAL and TALES on the commonness grade, so the tie goes A to Z. Every word here has this one page; none gets a page of its own.

56 shorter words from A E L S T The same list the solver gives for LEAST: every word of 2 to 4 letters these tiles make, each letter used at most as often as it appears. Longest first; common words first in each length, A to Z inside each grade. The longest are 4 letters. The top scorer is ALES at 4 points.

4 letters 26 words

  • Common 14
  • ales4
  • east4
  • eats4
  • last4
  • late4
  • lest4
  • lets4
  • sale4
  • salt4
  • seal4
  • seat4
  • slat4
  • tale4
  • teas4
  • Everyday 4
  • lats4
  • leas4
  • sate4
  • teal4
  • Less common 5
  • etas4
  • lase4
  • seta4
  • tael4
  • tels4
  • Rare 3
  • alts4
  • ates4
  • tela4

3 letters 21 words

  • Common 8
  • ale3
  • ate3
  • eat3
  • let3
  • sat3
  • sea3
  • set3
  • tea3
  • Everyday 2
  • eta3
  • lea3
  • Less common 2
  • els3
  • sal3
  • Rare 9
  • als3
  • alt3
  • las3
  • lat3
  • sae3
  • sel3
  • tae3
  • tas3
  • tel3

2 letters 9 words

  • Common 2
  • as2
  • at2
  • Everyday 2
  • es2
  • la2
  • Less common 2
  • et2
  • ta2
  • Rare 3
  • ae2
  • al2
  • el2