In the course of being asked to solve

some scrambled word puzzles, I wrote a Perl script that ran all possible permutations and checked them against a wordlist, but that was too slow, so I had to write something faster.
Of course, any technology can be turned into a japh...

After a while I'll post the original (non-JAPH) version, which is somewhat more flexible, legible, re-usable, and optionally verbose about its progress. Meanwhile, amuse yourselves with this... 

$d='/usr/share/dict/words';# Adjust this to point to your dictionary w
+ords file.
@a=map _ ("",split//),qw'tjsu thanore arkceh';$^X=~/n\/(....)/;splice@
+a,2,@_,$+;
sub _{my($f,@t)=@_;@c=('grep','-i','-e',"\"^$f".(join"",map".",@t).'$"
+',$d);open
_,"@c |";if(<_>){if(@t){my@l;for$i(0..$#t){my@e=@t;splice@e,$i,1;@r=_(
+"$f$t[$i]"
,@e);for$r(@r){push@l,$r}}@l}else{$f}}else{return}};s(); $\ =pop@a;;pr
+int"@a$/";

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