Cheat for game "4 Pics 1 Word". run with two arguments, length of word and string of possible letters. It finds a list of possible english words, using /usr/share/dict/words list of words.

Words

import re,sys
from itertools import permutations

def getDict(length):
    filename = "/usr/share/dict/words"
    words = set(x.strip().upper() for x in open(filename) if len(x.strip()) == length)
    return words
    
if __name__ == "__main__":
        
    if len(sys.argv) != 3:
        sys.exit(1)
        
    length = int(sys.argv[1])
    letters = sys.argv[2]    
    words = getDict(length)
    
    print("Loaded %d words of length %d"%(len(words),length))
    
    found = set()
    for w in ["".join(x).upper() for x in permutations(letters, length)]:
        if w in words:
            found.add(w)

    print("Found %d words."%len(found))
    print(" ".join(sorted(found)))