Abstract
Statistical distributions of the number of anagram solutions for lexical entries (noninflected word forms) were estimated from large French and English samples (more than 20,000 different items). In both languages, 96% of the anagrams had unique solutions and 91% of the words were letter sequences that could not be transformed by letter permutations into another legal word in the dictionaries. Some neuropsychological data seeming to support the hypothesis that cognitive processes take advantage of this redundancy of serial order information in verbal codes are reviewed.
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