This uses a slightly different technique that doesn't normalise anything.

The original word is read of the command line and its letters are used to create a character class based regex. The words in the dictionary files are processed one by one and matched against the regex. This acts as a filter to exclude any word that is not made up from letters in the original word with an optional 'extra letter'.

Words that pass the first filter are frequency checked to validate them for the overuse of letters before they are output. The frequency checking allows a repeat of one of the original letters for the wildcard. 

use strict;
use warnings;

my $data = shift @ARGV;
my $regex = qr /^([$data]*)([^$data]?)([$data]*)$/;

my %letterfrequency;
$letterfrequency{$_}++ foreach split //, $data;

OUTER: while (chomp(my $word = <>))
{
    next unless $word =~ /$regex/i;
    my %frequency;
    my $repeat = $2 ? 0 : 1;
    foreach (split //, $1.$3) {
        if (++$frequency{$_} > $letterfrequency{$_}) {
            next OUTER unless $repeat --;
        }
    }
    print "$word\n";
}

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This worked 'pretty quickly' (TM) against a 200,000 line dictionary.

In reply to Re: literati cheat / finding words from scrambled letters by inman
in thread literati cheat / finding words from scrambled letters by sulfericacid

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