Anagrams are a favoured brain teaser. The Q is useless here as there is no U to go with it. From the remaining six, you can have the following two-letter words: BE, ON, SO, OP (as in operation) and NO. Three-letter words include BOP, OPS, SOP, ONE, NOB, PEN, NOS (as in more than one no) and EON (the American spelling of ‘aeon’ meaning an age of time).
Four-letter words, which leap out of the selection, include BONE, EONS, BOPS, PENS, POSE and SNOB, and a five-letter word is BONES. Word-buff.com provides three handy tips to solve any anagrams: Look for prefixes and suffices like up-, or - up, and - out/ out-; try listing all the letters in alphabetical order (here B, E, N, O, P, Q, S) to help you solve using one’s memory, by remembering the constituent letters of a word so that whenever you are faced with an anagram of a certain number of letters, though this rather spoils the anagram as it becomes and alphagram and mechanises the process; using this, recognise that some alphagrams have more than one solution and to remember these it is best to couple them somehow, especially if one is a noun and one is a verb.
Thus none of the words listed above for this puzzle is an anagram of another, even at three-letter level. There are of course algorithms which can juggle and solve any anagram, but that will not train your own brain to recognise the resorting fun process.
Four-letter words, which leap out of the selection, include BONE, EONS, BOPS, PENS, POSE and SNOB, and a five-letter word is BONES. Word-buff.com provides three handy tips to solve any anagrams: Look for prefixes and suffices like up-, or - up, and - out/ out-; try listing all the letters in alphabetical order (here B, E, N, O, P, Q, S) to help you solve using one’s memory, by remembering the constituent letters of a word so that whenever you are faced with an anagram of a certain number of letters, though this rather spoils the anagram as it becomes and alphagram and mechanises the process; using this, recognise that some alphagrams have more than one solution and to remember these it is best to couple them somehow, especially if one is a noun and one is a verb.
Thus none of the words listed above for this puzzle is an anagram of another, even at three-letter level. There are of course algorithms which can juggle and solve any anagram, but that will not train your own brain to recognise the resorting fun process.
