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words_and_permutations.py
from itertools import permutations
WORD_FILE = '.../words'
words = set(x.strip() for x in open(WORD_FILE).readlines())
LETTERS = 'abcdefg'
perms = set((''.join(x).split())[0] for x in permutations(LETTERS+' '))
matches = list(perms.intersection(words))
matches.sort(key = len, reverse = True)
print matches[:10]
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