in reply to Scrabble word arrangements with blank tiles
That's even easier to do, given a file of dictionary words.
EDIT: I would like to add that if you have a small number of blanks (in this case, 2 or less), it is also possible to calculate the number of letter combinations from formulas. For 2 blanks:
Calculate number of letter sets with all unique letters
Calculate number of letter sets with one letter pair
Calculate number of letter sets with two letter pairs
Calculate number of letter sets with one letter triplet
Then you just need to calculate how many letter combinations can be made in each of the above cases for each letter set, multiply it out, and add up the results.
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