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Anagrams

From Rosetta Code
Task
Anagrams
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When two or more words are composed of the same characters, but in a different order, they are called anagrams.

Task

Using the word list at   http://wiki.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt,
find the sets of words that share the same characters that contain the most words in them.

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Metrics
Counting
Remove/replace
Anagrams/Derangements/shuffling
Find/Search/Determine
Formatting
Song lyrics/poems/Mad Libs/phrases
Tokenize
Sequences



11l

Translation of: Python
DefaultDict[String, Array[String]] anagram
L(word) File(‘unixdict.txt’).read().split("\n")
   anagram[sorted(word)].append(word)

V count = max(anagram.values().map(ana -> ana.len))

L(ana) anagram.values()
   I ana.len == count
      print(ana)
Output:
[abel, able, bale, bela, elba]
[caret, carte, cater, crate, trace]
[angel, angle, galen, glean, lange]
[alger, glare, lager, large, regal]
[elan, lane, lean, lena, neal]
[evil, levi, live, veil, vile]

8th

\
\ anagrams.8th
\ Rosetta Code - Anagrams problem
\ Using the word list at:
\   http://wiki.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt, 
\ find the sets of words that share the same characters 
\ that contain the most words in them.
\

ns: anagrams

m:new var, anamap
a:new var, anaptr
0 var, analen

\ sort a string
: s:sort \ s -- s                             \ 
  null s:/                                    \ a
  ' s:cmpi a:sort                             \ a
  "" a:join                                   \ s
  ;

: process-words \ word --                     \ word
  s:lc                                        \ word
  dup                                         \ word word
  >r                                          \ word | word
  \ 1. we create a sorted version of the curret word (sword)
  s:sort                                      \ sword | word
  \ We check if sword can be found in map anamap
  anamap @                                    \ sword anamap | word 
  over                                        \ sword anamap sword | word
  m:exists?                                   \ sword anamap boolean | word
  if                                          \ sword anamap | word
  \ If sword already exists in anamap:
  \    - get mapvalue, which is an array
  \    - add the original word to that array
  \    - store the array in the map with key sword
    over                                      \ sword anamap sword | word
    m:@                                       \ sword anamap array | word
    r>                                        \ sword anamap array word
    a:push                                    \ sword anamap array
    rot                                       \ anamap array sword
    swap                                      \ anamap sword array
    m:!                                       \ anamap
  else                                        \ sword anamap | word
  \ If sword does not yet exist in anamap: 
  \    - create empty array
  \    - put the original word into that array
  \    - store the array in the map with key sword
    swap                                      \ anamap sword | word
    a:new                                     \ anamap sword array | word
    r>                                        \ anamap sword array word
    a:push                                    \ anamap sword array
    m:!                                       \ anamap
  then
  drop                                        \
  ;

\ Read and check all words in array analist
: read-and-check-words \ --                   \
  "analist.txt"                               \ fname 
  f:open-ro                                   \ f
  ' process-words f:eachline                  \ f
  f:close                                     \ 
  ;

: len< \ key array arraylen --                \ key array arraylen
  2drop                                       \ key 
  drop                                        \
  ;
  
: len= \ key array arraylen --                \ key array arraylen
  2drop                                       \ key
  anaptr @                                    \ key anaptr
  swap                                        \ anaptr key
  a:push                                      \ anaptr
  drop                                        \
  ;

: len> \ key array arraylen --                \ key array arraylen
  analen                                      \ key array arraylen analen
  !                                           \ key array
  drop                                        \ key
  anaptr @                                    \ key anaptr
  a:clear                                     \ key anaptr
  swap                                        \ anaptr key
  a:push                                      \ anaptr
  drop                                        \
  ;
  
: fetch-longest-list \ key array --           \ key array
  a:len                                       \ key array arraylen
  analen @                                    \ key array arraylen analen
  2dup                                        \ key array arraylen analen arraylen analen
  n:cmp                                       \ key array arraylen analen value
  1 n:+                                       \ key array arraylen analen value
  nip                                         \ key array arraylen value 
  [ ' len< , ' len= , ' len> ]                \ key array arraylen value swarr
  swap                                        \ key array arraylen swarr value
  caseof                                      \ 
  ;

: list-words-1 \ ix value --                  \ ix value
  nip                                         \ value
  "\t" . .                                    \
  ;

: list-words \ ix value --                    \ ix value
  nip                                         \ value
  anamap @                                    \ value anamap
  swap                                        \ anamap value
  m:@                                         \ anamap array
  nip                                         \ array
  ' list-words-1 a:each                       \ array
  cr                                          \ array
  drop                                        \
  ;
  
: app:main

  \ Create a map, where the values are arrays, containing all words
  \ which are the same when sorted (sword); sword is used as key
  read-and-check-words

  \ Create an array that holds the keys for anamap, for which the value,
  \ which is the array of anagrams, has the biggest length found.
  anamap @ ' fetch-longest-list m:each
  
  \ Dump the resulting words to the console
  anaptr @ ' list-words a:each drop
  bye
  ;

AArch64 Assembly

Works with: as version Raspberry Pi 3B version Buster 64 bits
or android 64 bits with application Termux
/* ARM assembly AARCH64 Raspberry PI 3B */
/*  program anagram64.s   */

/*******************************************/
/* Constantes file                         */
/*******************************************/
/* for this file see task include a file in language AArch64 assembly*/
.include "../includeConstantesARM64.inc"
 
.equ MAXI,         40000
.equ BUFFERSIZE,   300000

/*********************************/
/* Initialized data              */
/*********************************/
.data
szFileName:           .asciz "./listword.txt"
szMessErreur:         .asciz "FILE ERROR."
szCarriageReturn:     .asciz "\n"
szMessSpace:          .asciz " "

ptBuffex1:            .quad sBuffex1
/*********************************/
/* UnInitialized data            */
/*********************************/
.bss
ptTabBuffer:                .skip 8 * MAXI
ptTabAna:                   .skip 8 * MAXI
tbiCptAna:                  .skip 8 * MAXI
iNBword:                    .skip 8
sBuffer:                    .skip BUFFERSIZE
sBuffex1:                   .skip BUFFERSIZE

/*********************************/
/*  code section                 */
/*********************************/
.text
.global main 
main:                      // entry of program 
    mov x4,#0              // loop indice
    mov x0,AT_FDCWD        // current directory
    ldr x1,qAdrszFileName  // file name
    mov x2,#O_RDWR         // flags
    mov x3,#0              // mode
    mov x8,#OPEN           // 
    svc 0 
    cmp x0,#0              // error open
    ble 99f
    mov x19,x0              // FD save Fd
    ldr x1,qAdrsBuffer     // buffer address
    ldr x2,qSizeBuf        // buffersize
    mov x8, #READ
    svc 0 
    cmp x0,#0              // error read ?
    blt 99f
    mov x5,x0              // save size read bytes
    ldr x4,qAdrsBuffer     // buffer address
    ldr x0,qAdrsBuffer     // start word address
    mov x2,#0
    mov x1,#0              // word length
1:
    cmp x2,x5
    bge 2f
    ldrb w3,[x4,x2]
    cmp w3,#0xD            // end word ?
    cinc x1,x1,ne          // increment word length
    cinc x2,x2,ne          // increment indice
    bne 1b                 // and loop
    strb wzr,[x4,x2]        // store final zero
    bl anaWord             // sort word letters
    add x2,x2,#2           // jump OD and 0A 
    add x0,x4,x2           // new address begin word
    mov x1,#0              // init length
    b 1b                   // and loop
    
2:
    strb wzr,[x4,x2]       // zero final
    bl anaWord             // last word
    
    mov x0,x19              // file Fd
    mov x8, #CLOSE
    svc 0 
    cmp x0,#0              // error close ?
    blt 99f
    
    ldr x0,qAdrptTabAna    // address sorted string area
    mov x1,#0              // first indice
    ldr x2,qAdriNBword
    ldr x2,[x2]            // last indice
    ldr x3,qAdrptTabBuffer // address sorted string area
    bl triRapide           // quick sort
    ldr x4,qAdrptTabAna    // address sorted string area
    ldr x7,qAdrptTabBuffer // address sorted string area
    ldr x10,qAdrtbiCptAna  // address counter occurences
    mov x9,x2              // size word array
    mov x8,#0              // indice first occurence
    ldr x3,[x4,x8,lsl #3]  // load first value
    mov x2,#1              // loop indice
    mov x6,#0              // counter
    mov x12,#0             // counter value max
3:
    ldr x5,[x4,x2,lsl #3]  // load next value
    mov x0,x3
    mov x1,x5
    bl comparStrings
    cmp x0,#0              // sorted strings equal ?
    bne 4f
    add x6,x6,#1           // yes increment counter
    b 5f
4:                         // no
    str x6,[x10,x8,lsl #3] // store counter in first occurence
    cmp x6,x12             // counter > value max
    csel x12,x6,x12,gt     // yes  counter -> value max
    //movgt x12,x6           // yes  counter -> value max
    mov x6,#0              // raz counter
    mov x8,x2              // init index first occurence
    mov x3,x5              // init value first occurence
5:
    add x2,x2,#1           // increment indice
    cmp x2,x9              // end word array ?
    blt 3b                 // no -> loop
    
    mov x2,#0              // raz indice
6:                         // display loop
    ldr x6,[x10,x2,lsl #3] // load counter
    cmp x6,x12             // equal to max value ?
    bne 8f
    ldr x0,[x7,x2,lsl #3]  // load address first word
    bl affichageMess
    add x3,x2,#1           // increment new indixe
    mov x4,#0              // counter
7:
    ldr x0,qAdrszMessSpace
    bl affichageMess
    ldr x0,[x7,x3,lsl #3]  // load address other word
    bl affichageMess
    add x3,x3,#1           // increment indice
    add x4,x4,#1           // increment counter
    cmp x4,x6              // max value ?
    blt 7b                 // no loop
    ldr x0,qAdrszCarriageReturn
    bl affichageMess
8:
    add x2,x2,#1           // increment indice
    cmp x2,x9              // maxi ?
    blt 6b                 // no -> loop
    
    b 100f
99:                        // display error
    ldr x0,qAdrszMessErreur
    bl affichageMess
    
100:                       // standard end of the program 
    mov x0, #0             // return code
    mov x8, #EXIT          // request to exit program
    svc #0                 // perform the system call
qAdrszCarriageReturn:        .quad szCarriageReturn
qAdrszFileName:              .quad szFileName
qAdrszMessErreur:            .quad szMessErreur
qAdrsBuffer:                 .quad sBuffer
qSizeBuf:                    .quad BUFFERSIZE
qAdrszMessSpace:             .quad szMessSpace
qAdrtbiCptAna:               .quad tbiCptAna
/******************************************************************/
/*     analizing word                                   */ 
/******************************************************************/
/*  x0  word address */
/*  x1 word length   */
anaWord:
    stp x1,lr,[sp,-16]!           // save  registers
    stp x2,x3,[sp,-16]!           // save  registers
    stp x4,x5,[sp,-16]!           // save  registers
    stp x6,x7,[sp,-16]!           // save  registers
    mov x5,x0
    mov x6,x1
    ldr x1,qAdrptTabBuffer
    ldr x2,qAdriNBword
    ldr x3,[x2]
    str x0,[x1,x3,lsl #3]
    
    ldr x1,qAdrptTabAna
    ldr x4,qAdrptBuffex1
    ldr x0,[x4]
    add x6,x6,x0
    add x6,x6,#1
    str x6,[x4]
    str x0,[x1,x3,lsl #3]
    
    add x3,x3,#1
    str x3,[x2]
    mov x1,x0
    mov x0,x5
    bl triLetters         // sort word letters
    mov x2,#0
100:
    ldp x6,x7,[sp],16              // restaur  2 registers
    ldp x4,x5,[sp],16              // restaur  2 registers
    ldp x2,x3,[sp],16              // restaur  2 registers
    ldp x1,lr,[sp],16              // restaur  2 registers
    ret                            // return to address lr x30
qAdrptTabBuffer:        .quad ptTabBuffer
qAdrptTabAna:           .quad ptTabAna
qAdriNBword:            .quad iNBword
qAdrptBuffex1:          .quad ptBuffex1
/******************************************************************/
/*     sort word letters                                  */ 
/******************************************************************/
/* x0  address begin word */
/* x1  address recept array */
triLetters:
    stp x1,lr,[sp,-16]!     // save  registers
    stp x2,x3,[sp,-16]!     // save  registers
    stp x4,x5,[sp,-16]!     // save  registers
    stp x6,x7,[sp,-16]!     // save  registers
    mov x2,#0
1:
    ldrb w3,[x0,x2]         // load letter
    cmp w3,#0               // end word ?
    beq 6f
    cmp x2,#0               // first letter ?
    bne 2f
    strb w3,[x1,x2]         // yes store in first position
    add x2,x2,#1            // increment indice
    b 1b                    // and loop
2:
    mov x4,#0
3:                          // begin loop to search insertion position
    ldrb w5,[x1,x4]         // load letter 
    cmp w3,w5               // compare
    blt 4f                  // to low -> insertion
    add x4,x4,#1            // increment indice
    cmp x4,x2               // compare to letters number in place
    blt 3b                  // search loop
    strb w3,[x1,x2]         // else store in last position
    add x2,x2,#1
    b 1b                    // and loop
4:                          // move first letters in one position 
    sub x6,x2,#1            // start indice
5:
    ldrb w5,[x1,x6]         // load letter
    add x7,x6,#1            // store indice - 1
    strb w5,[x1,x7]         // store letter
    sub x6,x6,#1            // decrement indice
    cmp x6,x4               // end ?
    bge 5b                  // no loop
    strb w3,[x1,x4]         // else store letter in free position
    add x2,x2,#1
    b 1b                    // and loop
6: 
    strb wzr,[x1,x2]        // final zéro
100:
    ldp x6,x7,[sp],16       // restaur  2 registers
    ldp x4,x5,[sp],16       // restaur  2 registers
    ldp x2,x3,[sp],16       // restaur  2 registers
    ldp x1,lr,[sp],16       // restaur  2 registers
    ret                     // return to address lr x30
/***************************************************/
/*   Appel récursif Tri Rapide quicksort           */
/***************************************************/
/* x0 contains the address of table */
/* x1 contains index of first item  */
/* x2 contains the number of elements  > 0  */
/* x3 contains the address of table 2 */
triRapide:
    stp x1,lr,[sp,-16]!     // save  registers
    stp x2,x3,[sp,-16]!     // save  registers
    stp x4,x5,[sp,-16]!     // save  registers
    stp x6,x7,[sp,-16]!     // save  registers
    mov x6,x3 
    sub x2,x2,#1               // last item index
    cmp x1,x2               // first > last ? 
    bge 100f                // yes -> end
    mov x4,x0               // save x0
    mov x5,x2               // save x2
    mov x3,x6
    bl partition1           // cutting.quado 2 parts
    mov x2,x0               // index partition
    mov x0,x4               // table address
    bl triRapide            // sort lower part
    mov x0,x4               // table address
    add x1,x2,#1            // index begin = index partition + 1
    add x2,x5,#1            // number of elements
    bl triRapide            // sort higter part
   
 100:                       // end function
    ldp x6,x7,[sp],16       // restaur  2 registers
    ldp x4,x5,[sp],16       // restaur  2 registers
    ldp x2,x3,[sp],16       // restaur  2 registers
    ldp x1,lr,[sp],16       // restaur  2 registers
    ret                     // return to address lr x30

/******************************************************************/
/*      Partition table elements                                */ 
/******************************************************************/
/* x0 contains the address of table */
/* x1 contains index of first item  */
/* x2 contains index of last item   */
/* x3 contains the address of table 2 */
partition1:
    stp x1,lr,[sp,-16]!     // save  registers
    stp x2,x3,[sp,-16]!     // save  registers
    stp x4,x5,[sp,-16]!     // save  registers
    stp x6,x7,[sp,-16]!     // save  registers
    stp x8,x9,[sp,-16]!     // save  registers
    stp x10,x12,[sp,-16]!   // save  registers
    mov x8,x0               // save address table 2
    mov x9,x1 
    ldr x10,[x8,x2,lsl #3]  // load string address last index
    mov x4,x9               // init with first index
    mov x5,x9               // init with first index
1:                          // begin loop
    ldr x6,[x8,x5,lsl #3]   // load string address
    mov x0,x6
    mov x1,x10
    bl comparStrings
    cmp x0,#0
    bge 2f
    ldr x7,[x8,x4,lsl #3]    // if < swap value table
    str x6,[x8,x4,lsl #3]
    str x7,[x8,x5,lsl #3]
    ldr x7,[x3,x4,lsl #3]    // swap array 2
    ldr x12,[x3,x5,lsl #3]
    str x7,[x3,x5,lsl #3]
    str x12,[x3,x4,lsl #3]
    add x4,x4,#1             // and increment index 1
2:
    add x5,x5,#1             // increment index 2
    cmp x5,x2                // end ?
    blt 1b                   // no -> loop
    ldr x7,[x8,x4,lsl #3]    // swap value
    str x10,[x8,x4,lsl #3]
    str x7,[x8,x2,lsl #3]
    ldr x7,[x3,x4,lsl #3]    // swap array 2
    ldr x12,[x3,x2,lsl #3]
    str x7,[x3,x2,lsl #3]
    str x12,[x3,x4,lsl #3]
    
    mov x0,x4                // return index partition
100:
    ldp x10,x12,[sp],16     // restaur  2 registers
    ldp x8,x9,[sp],16       // restaur  2 registers
    ldp x6,x7,[sp],16       // restaur  2 registers
    ldp x4,x5,[sp],16       // restaur  2 registers
    ldp x2,x3,[sp],16       // restaur  2 registers
    ldp x1,lr,[sp],16       // restaur  2 registers
    ret                     // return to address lr x30
/************************************/       
/* Strings case sensitive comparisons  */
/************************************/      
/* x0 et x1 contains the address of strings */
/* return 0 in x0 if equals */
/* return -1 if string x0 < string x1 */
/* return 1  if string x0 > string x1 */
comparStrings:
    stp x1,lr,[sp,-16]! // save  registers
    stp x2,x3,[sp,-16]! // save  registers
    stp x4,x5,[sp,-16]! // save  registers
    mov x2,#0           // counter
1:    
    ldrb w3,[x0,x2]     // byte string 1
    ldrb w4,[x1,x2]     // byte string 2
    cmp w3,w4
    blt 2f              // small
    bgt 3f              // greather  
    cmp x3,#0           // 0 end string
    beq 4f              // end string
    add x2,x2,#1        // else add 1 in counter
    b 1b                // and loop
2:
    mov x0,#-1          // small
    b 100f
3:
    mov x0,#1           // greather  
    b 100f
4:
   mov x0,#0            // equal
100:
    ldp x4,x5,[sp],16   // restaur  2 registers
    ldp x2,x3,[sp],16   // restaur  2 registers
    ldp x1,lr,[sp],16   // restaur  2 registers
    ret                 // return to address lr x30
/********************************************************/
/*        File Include fonctions                        */
/********************************************************/
/* for this file see task include a file in language AArch64 assembly */
.include "../includeARM64.inc"
~/.../rosetta/asm1 $ anagram64
bale able bela abel elba
cater carte crate caret trace
galen glean angle lange angel
regal glare alger lager large
lena lane lean elan neal
veil levi live vile evil

ABAP

report zz_anagrams no standard page heading.
define update_progress.
  call function 'SAPGUI_PROGRESS_INDICATOR'
    exporting
      text = &1.
end-of-definition.

" Selection screen segment allowing the person to choose which file will act as input.
selection-screen begin of block file_choice.
  parameters p_file type string lower case.
selection-screen end of block file_choice.

" When the user requests help with input, run the routine to allow them to navigate the presentation server.
at selection-screen on value-request for p_file.
  perform getfile using p_file.

at selection-screen output.
  %_p_file_%_app_%-text = 'Input File: '.

start-of-selection.
  data: gt_data type table of string.

  " Read the specified file from the presentation server into memory.
  perform readfile using p_file changing gt_data.
  " After the file has been read into memory, loop through it line-by-line and make anagrams.
  perform anagrams using gt_data.

" Subroutine for generating a list of anagrams.
" The supplied input is a table, with each entry corresponding to a word.
form anagrams using it_data like gt_data.
  types begin of ty_map.
    types key type string.
    types value type string.
  types end of ty_map.

  data: lv_char     type c,
        lv_len      type i,
        lv_string   type string,
        ls_entry    type ty_map,
        lt_anagrams type standard table of ty_map,
        lt_c_tab    type table of string.

  field-symbols: <fs_raw> type string.
  " Loop through each word in the table, and make an associative array.
  loop at gt_data assigning <fs_raw>.
    " First, we need to re-order the word alphabetically. This generated a key. All anagrams will use this same key.
    " Add each character to a table, which we will then sort alphabetically.
    lv_len = strlen( <fs_raw> ).
    refresh lt_c_tab.
    do lv_len times.
      lv_len = sy-index  - 1.
      append <fs_raw>+lv_len(1) to lt_c_tab.
    enddo.
    sort lt_c_tab as text.
    " Now append the characters to a string and add it as a key into the map.
    clear lv_string.
    loop at lt_c_tab into lv_char.
      concatenate lv_char lv_string into lv_string respecting blanks.
    endloop.
    ls_entry-key = lv_string.
    ls_entry-value = <fs_raw>.
    append ls_entry to lt_anagrams.
  endloop.
  " After we're done processing, output a list of the anagrams.
  clear lv_string.
  loop at lt_anagrams into ls_entry.
    " Is it part of the same key --> Output in the same line, else a new entry.
    if lv_string = ls_entry-key.
        write: ', ', ls_entry-value.
    else.
      if sy-tabix <> 1.
        write: ']'.
      endif.
      write:  / '[', ls_entry-value.
    endif.
    lv_string = ls_entry-key.
  endloop.
  " Close last entry.
  write ']'.
endform.

" Read a specified file from the presentation server.
form readfile using i_file type string changing it_raw like gt_data.
  data: l_datat type string,
        l_msg(2048),
        l_lines(10).

  " Read the file into memory.
  update_progress 'Reading file...'.
  call method cl_gui_frontend_services=>gui_upload
    exporting
      filename = i_file
    changing
      data_tab = it_raw
    exceptions
      others   = 1.
  " Output error if the file could not be uploaded.
  if sy-subrc <> 0.
    write : / 'Error reading the supplied file!'.
    return.
  endif.
endform.
Output:
[ angel ,  angle ,  galen ,  glean ,  lange ]
[ elan ,  lane ,  lean ,  lena ,  neal ]
[ alger ,  glare ,  lager ,  large ,  regal ]
[ abel ,  able ,  bale ,  bela ,  elba ]
[ evil ,  levi ,  live ,  veil ,  vile ]
[ caret ,  carte ,  cater ,  crate ,  trace ]

Ada

with Ada.Text_IO;  use Ada.Text_IO;

with Ada.Containers.Indefinite_Ordered_Maps;
with Ada.Containers.Indefinite_Ordered_Sets;

procedure Words_Of_Equal_Characters is
   package Set_Of_Words is new Ada.Containers.Indefinite_Ordered_Sets (String);
   use Ada.Containers, Set_Of_Words;
   package Anagrams is new Ada.Containers.Indefinite_Ordered_Maps (String, Set);
   use Anagrams;

   File   : File_Type;
   Result : Map;
   Max    : Count_Type := 1;

   procedure Put (Position : Anagrams.Cursor) is
      First : Boolean := True;
      List  : Set renames Element (Position);
      procedure Put (Position : Set_Of_Words.Cursor) is
      begin
         if First then
            First := False;
         else
            Put (',');
         end if;
         Put (Element (Position));
      end Put;
   begin
      if List.Length = Max then
         Iterate (List, Put'Access);
         New_Line;
      end if;
   end Put;

begin
   Open (File, In_File, "unixdict.txt");
   loop
      declare
         Word : constant String     := Get_Line (File);
         Key  : String (Word'Range) := (others => Character'Last);
         List : Set;
         Position : Anagrams.Cursor;
      begin
         for I in Word'Range loop
            for J in Word'Range loop
               if Key (J) > Word (I) then
                  Key (J + 1..I) := Key (J..I - 1);
                  Key (J) := Word (I);
                  exit;
               end if;
            end loop;
         end loop;
         Position := Find (Result, Key);
         if Has_Element (Position) then
            List := Element (Position);
            Insert (List, Word);
            Replace_Element (Result, Position, List);
         else
            Insert (List, Word);
            Include (Result, Key, List);
         end if;
         Max := Count_Type'Max (Max, Length (List));
      end;
   end loop;
exception
   when End_Error =>
      Iterate (Result, Put'Access);
      Close (File);
end Words_Of_Equal_Characters;
Output:
abel,able,bale,bela,elba
caret,carte,cater,crate,trace
angel,angle,galen,glean,lange
alger,glare,lager,large,regal
elan,lane,lean,lena,neal
evil,levi,live,veil,vile

ALGOL 68

Works with: ALGOL 68G version Any - tested with release 2.8.3.win32

Uses the "read" PRAGMA of Algol 68 G to include the associative array code from the Associative_array/Iteration task.

# find longest list(s) of words that are anagrams in a list of words #
# use the associative array in the Associate array/iteration task    #
PR read "aArray.a68" PR

# returns the number of occurances of ch in text #
PROC count = ( STRING text, CHAR ch )INT:
     BEGIN
         INT result := 0;
         FOR c FROM LWB text TO UPB text DO IF text[ c ] = ch THEN result +:= 1 FI OD;
         result
     END # count # ;
         
# returns text with the characters sorted into ascending order #
PROC char sort = ( STRING text )STRING:
     BEGIN
         STRING sorted := text;
         FOR end pos FROM UPB sorted - 1 BY -1 TO LWB sorted
         WHILE
             BOOL swapped := FALSE;
             FOR pos FROM LWB sorted TO end pos DO
                 IF sorted[ pos ] > sorted[ pos + 1 ]
                 THEN              
                     CHAR  t           := sorted[ pos     ];
                     sorted[ pos     ] := sorted[ pos + 1 ];
                     sorted[ pos + 1 ] := t;
                     swapped           := TRUE
                 FI
             OD;
             swapped
         DO SKIP OD;
         sorted
    END # char sort # ;

# read the list of words and store in an associative array           #

CHAR separator = "|"; # character that will separate the anagrams #

IF  FILE input file;
    STRING file name = "unixdict.txt";
    open( input file, file name, stand in channel ) /= 0
THEN
    # failed to open the file #
    print( (  "Unable to open """ + file name + """", newline ) )
ELSE
    # file opened OK #
    BOOL at eof := FALSE;
    # set the EOF handler for the file #
    on logical file end( input file, ( REF FILE f )BOOL:
                                     BEGIN
                                         # note that we reached EOF on the #
                                         # latest read #
                                         at eof := TRUE;
                                         # return TRUE so processing can continue #
                                         TRUE
                                     END
                       );
    REF AARRAY words := INIT LOC AARRAY;
    WHILE NOT at eof
    DO
        STRING word;
        get( input file, ( word, newline ) );
        words // char sort( word ) +:= separator + word
    OD;
    # close the file #
    close( input file );

    # find the maximum number of anagrams #

    INT max anagrams := 0;

    REF AAELEMENT e := FIRST words;
    WHILE e ISNT nil element DO
        IF  INT anagrams := count( value OF e, separator );
            anagrams > max anagrams
        THEN
            max anagrams := anagrams
        FI;
        e := NEXT words
    OD;

    print( ( "Maximum number of anagrams: ", whole( max anagrams, -4 ), newline ) );
    # show the anagrams with the maximum number #
    e := FIRST words;
    WHILE e ISNT nil element DO
        IF  INT anagrams := count( value OF e, separator );
            anagrams = max anagrams
        THEN
            print( ( ( value OF e )[ ( LWB value OF e ) + 1: ], newline ) )
        FI;
        e := NEXT words
    OD
FI
Output:
Maximum number of anagrams:    5
abel|able|bale|bela|elba
elan|lane|lean|lena|neal
evil|levi|live|veil|vile
angel|angle|galen|glean|lange
alger|glare|lager|large|regal
caret|carte|cater|crate|trace

Amazing Hopper

#include <basico.h>

#define MAX_LINE   30

algoritmo
    
    fd=0, filas=0
    word={}, 2da columna={}
    old_word="",new_word=""
    dimensionar (1,2) matriz de cadenas 'result'
    pos=0
    
    token.separador'""'

    abrir para leer("basica/unixdict.txt",fd)

    iterar mientras ' no es fin de archivo (fd) '
       usando 'MAX_LINE', leer línea desde(fd), 
       ---copiar en 'old_word'---, separar para 'word '
       word, ---retener--- ordenar esto,
       encadenar en 'new_word'

       matriz.buscar en tabla (1,new_word,result)
       copiar en 'pos'
       si ' es negativo? '
           new_word,old_word, pegar fila en 'result' 
       sino
           #( result[pos,2] = cat(result[pos,2],cat(",",old_word) ) )
       fin si

    reiterar

    cerrar archivo(fd)
    
    guardar 'filas de (result)' en 'filas'
    #( 2da columna = result[2:filas, 2] )
    fijar separador '","'
    tomar '2da columna'
    contar tokens en '2da columna' ---retener resultado,
    obtener máximo valor,es mayor o igual?, replicar esto
    compactar esto

    fijar separador 'NL', luego imprime todo
    
terminar
Output:
abel,able,bale,bela,elba
alger,glare,lager,large,regal
angel,angle,galen,glean,lange
caret,carte,cater,crate,trace
elan,lane,lean,lena,neal
evil,levi,live,veil,vile

APL

Translation of: J
Works with: Dyalog APL

This is a rough translation of the J version, intermediate values are kept and verb trains are not used for clarity of data flow.

anagrams{
    tie ⎕NTIE 0
    dict⎕NREAD tie 80(⎕NSIZE tie)0
    boxes((⎕UCS 10)dict)dict
    ana(({[]}¨boxes)({})boxes)
    ({~' '¨(/¯1[2])}ana)ana  ⎕NUNTIE
}

On a unix system we can assume wget exists and can use it from dyalog to download the file.

The ]display command formats the output with boxes.

Example:

⎕SH'wget http://wiki.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt'
]display anagrams 'unixdict.txt'

Output:

┌→────────────────────────────────────────┐
↓ ┌→───┐  ┌→───┐  ┌→───┐  ┌→───┐  ┌→───┐  │
│ │abel│  │able│  │bale│  │bela│  │elba│  │
│ └────┘  └────┘  └────┘  └────┘  └────┘  │
│ ┌→────┐ ┌→────┐ ┌→────┐ ┌→────┐ ┌→────┐ │
│ │alger│ │glare│ │lager│ │large│ │regal│ │
│ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ │
│ ┌→────┐ ┌→────┐ ┌→────┐ ┌→────┐ ┌→────┐ │
│ │angel│ │angle│ │galen│ │glean│ │lange│ │
│ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ │
│ ┌→────┐ ┌→────┐ ┌→────┐ ┌→────┐ ┌→────┐ │
│ │caret│ │carte│ │cater│ │crate│ │trace│ │
│ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ │
│ ┌→───┐  ┌→───┐  ┌→───┐  ┌→───┐  ┌→───┐  │
│ │elan│  │lane│  │lean│  │lena│  │neal│  │
│ └────┘  └────┘  └────┘  └────┘  └────┘  │
│ ┌→───┐  ┌→───┐  ┌→───┐  ┌→───┐  ┌→───┐  │
│ │evil│  │levi│  │live│  │veil│  │vile│  │
│ └────┘  └────┘  └────┘  └────┘  └────┘  │
└∊────────────────────────────────────────┘

AppleScript

use AppleScript version "2.3.1" -- OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) or later.
use sorter : script ¬
    "Custom Iterative Ternary Merge Sort" -- <www.macscripter.net/t/timsort-and-nigsort/71383/3>
use scripting additions

on join(lst, delim)
    set astid to AppleScript's text item delimiters
    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to delim
    set txt to lst as text
    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to astid
    return txt
end join

on largestAnagramGroups(listOfWords)
    script o
        property wordList : listOfWords
        property groupingTexts : wordList's items
        property largestGroupSize : 0
        property largestGroupRanges : {}
        
        on judgeGroup(i, j)
            set groupSize to j - i + 1
            if (groupSize < largestGroupSize) then -- Most likely.
            else if (groupSize = largestGroupSize) then -- Next most likely.
                set end of largestGroupRanges to {i, j}
            else -- Largest group so far.
                set largestGroupRanges to {{i, j}}
                set largestGroupSize to groupSize
            end if
        end judgeGroup
        
        on isGreater(a, b)
            return a's beginning > b's beginning
        end isGreater
    end script
    
    set wordCount to (count o's wordList)
    ignoring case
        -- Replace the words in the groupingTexts list with sorted-character versions.
        repeat with i from 1 to wordCount
            set chrs to o's groupingTexts's item i's characters
            tell sorter to sort(chrs, 1, -1, {})
            set o's groupingTexts's item i to join(chrs, "")
        end repeat
        -- Sort the list to group its contents and echo the moves in the original word list.
        tell sorter to sort(o's groupingTexts, 1, wordCount, {slave:{o's wordList}})
        
        -- Find the list range(s) of the longest run(s) of equal grouping texts.
        set i to 1
        set currentText to beginning of o's groupingTexts
        repeat with j from 2 to wordCount
            set thisText to o's groupingTexts's item j
            if (thisText is not currentText) then
                tell o to judgeGroup(i, j - 1)
                set currentText to thisText
                set i to j
            end if
        end repeat
        if (j > i) then tell o to judgeGroup(i, j)
        
        -- Extract the group(s) of words occupying the same range(s) in the original word list.
        set output to {}
        repeat with thisRange in o's largestGroupRanges
            set {i, j} to thisRange
            -- Add this group to the output.
            set thisGroup to o's wordList's items i thru j
            tell sorter to sort(thisGroup, 1, -1, {}) -- Not necessary with unixdict.txt. But hey.
            set end of output to thisGroup
        end repeat
        
        -- As a final flourish, sort the groups on their first items.
        tell sorter to sort(output, 1, -1, {comparer:o})
    end ignoring
    
    return output
end largestAnagramGroups

local wordFile, wordList
set wordFile to ((path to desktop as text) & "www.rosettacode.org:unixdict.txt") as «class furl»
set wordList to paragraphs of (read wordFile as «class utf8»)
return largestAnagramGroups(wordList)
Output:
{{"abel", "able", "bale", "bela", "elba"}, {"alger", "glare", "lager", "large", "regal"}, {"angel", "angle", "galen", "glean", "lange"}, {"caret", "carte", "cater", "crate", "trace"}, {"elan", "lane", "lean", "lena", "neal"}, {"evil", "levi", "live", "veil", "vile"}}

ARM Assembly

Works with: as version Raspberry Pi
or android 32 bits with application Termux
/* ARM assembly Raspberry PI  */
/*  program anagram.s   */

 /* REMARK 1 : this program use routines in a include file 
   see task Include a file language arm assembly 
   for the routine affichageMess conversion10 
   see at end of this program the instruction include */
/* for constantes see task include a file in arm assembly */
/************************************/
/* Constantes                       */
/************************************/
.include "../constantes.inc"
 
.equ MAXI,         40000
.equ BUFFERSIZE,   300000
.equ READ, 3                            @ system call 
.equ OPEN, 5                            @ system call
.equ CLOSE, 6                           @ system call
.equ O_RDWR,  0x0002                    @ open for reading and writing

/*********************************/
/* Initialized data              */
/*********************************/
.data
szFileName:           .asciz "./listword.txt"
szMessErreur:         .asciz "FILE ERROR."
szCarriageReturn:     .asciz "\n"
szMessSpace:          .asciz " "

ptBuffer1:            .int sBuffer1
/*********************************/
/* UnInitialized data            */
/*********************************/
.bss
ptTabBuffer:                .skip 4 * MAXI
ptTabAna:                   .skip 4 * MAXI
tbiCptAna:                  .skip 4 * MAXI
iNBword:                    .skip 4
sBuffer:                    .skip BUFFERSIZE
sBuffer1:                   .skip BUFFERSIZE

/*********************************/
/*  code section                 */
/*********************************/
.text
.global main 
main:                      @ entry of program 
    mov r4,#0              @ loop indice
    ldr r0,iAdrszFileName  @ file name
    mov r1,#O_RDWR         @ flags
    mov r2,#0              @ mode
    mov r7,#OPEN           @ 
    svc 0 
    cmp r0,#0              @ error open
    ble 99f
    mov r8,r0              @ FD save Fd
    ldr r1,iAdrsBuffer     @ buffer address
    ldr r2,iSizeBuf        @ buffersize
    mov r7, #READ
    svc 0 
    cmp r0,#0              @ error read ?
    blt 99f
    mov r5,r0              @ save size read bytes
    ldr r4,iAdrsBuffer     @ buffer address
    ldr r0,iAdrsBuffer     @ start word address
    mov r2,#0
    mov r1,#0              @ word length
1:
    cmp r2,r5
    bge 2f
    ldrb r3,[r4,r2]
    cmp r3,#0xD            @ end word ?
    addne r1,r1,#1         @ increment word length
    addne r2,r2,#1         @ increment indice
    bne 1b                 @ and loop
    mov r3,#0
    strb r3,[r4,r2]        @ store final zero
    bl anaWord             @ sort word letters
    add r2,r2,#2           @ jump OD and 0A 
    add r0,r4,r2           @ new address begin word
    mov r1,#0              @ init length
    b 1b                   @ and loop
    
2:
    mov r3,#0              @ last word
    strb r3,[r4,r2]
    bl anaWord
    
    mov r0,r8              @ file Fd
    mov r7, #CLOSE
    svc 0 
    cmp r0,#0              @ error close ?
    blt 99f
    
    ldr r0,iAdrptTabAna    @ address sorted string area
    mov r1,#0              @ first indice
    ldr r2,iAdriNBword
    ldr r2,[r2]            @ last indice
    ldr r3,iAdrptTabBuffer @ address sorted string area
    bl triRapide           @ quick sort
    ldr r4,iAdrptTabAna    @ address sorted string area
    ldr r7,iAdrptTabBuffer @ address sorted string area
    ldr r10,iAdrtbiCptAna  @ address counter occurences
    mov r9,r2              @ size word array
    mov r8,#0              @ indice first occurence
    ldr r3,[r4,r8,lsl #2]  @ load first value
    mov r2,#1              @ loop indice
    mov r6,#0              @ counter
    mov r12,#0             @ counter value max
3:
    ldr r5,[r4,r2,lsl #2]  @ load next value
    mov r0,r3
    mov r1,r5
    bl comparStrings
    cmp r0,#0              @ sorted strings equal ?
    bne 4f
    add r6,r6,#1           @ yes increment counter
    b 5f
4:                         @ no
    str r6,[r10,r8,lsl #2] @ store counter in first occurence
    cmp r6,r12             @ counter > value max
    movgt r12,r6           @ yes  counter -> value max
    mov r6,#0              @ raz counter
    mov r8,r2              @ init index first occurence
    mov r3,r5              @ init value first occurence
5:
    add r2,r2,#1           @ increment indice
    cmp r2,r9              @ end word array ?
    blt 3b                 @ no -> loop
    
    mov r2,#0              @ raz indice
6:                         @ display loop
    ldr r6,[r10,r2,lsl #2] @ load counter
    cmp r6,r12             @ equal to max value ?
    bne 8f
    ldr r0,[r7,r2,lsl #2]  @ load address first word
    bl affichageMess
    add r3,r2,#1           @ increment new indixe
    mov r4,#0              @ counter
7:
    ldr r0,iAdrszMessSpace
    bl affichageMess
    ldr r0,[r7,r3,lsl #2]  @ load address other word
    bl affichageMess
    add r3,r3,#1           @ increment indice
    add r4,r4,#1           @ increment counter
    cmp r4,r6              @ max value ?
    blt 7b                 @ no loop
    ldr r0,iAdrszCarriageReturn
    bl affichageMess
8:
    add r2,r2,#1           @ increment indice
    cmp r2,r9              @ maxi ?
    blt 6b                 @ no -> loop
    
    b 100f
99:                        @ display error
    ldr r1,iAdrszMessErreur
    bl displayError
    
100:                       @ standard end of the program 
    mov r0, #0             @ return code
    mov r7, #EXIT          @ request to exit program
    svc #0                 @ perform the system call
iAdrszCarriageReturn:        .int szCarriageReturn
iAdrszFileName:              .int szFileName
iAdrszMessErreur:            .int szMessErreur
iAdrsBuffer:                 .int sBuffer
iSizeBuf:                    .int BUFFERSIZE
iAdrszMessSpace:             .int szMessSpace
iAdrtbiCptAna:               .int tbiCptAna
/******************************************************************/
/*     analizing word                                   */ 
/******************************************************************/
/*  r0  word address */
/*  r1 word length   */
anaWord:
    push {r1-r6,lr}
    mov r5,r0
    mov r6,r1
    ldr r1,iAdrptTabBuffer
    ldr r2,iAdriNBword
    ldr r3,[r2]
    str r0,[r1,r3,lsl #2]
    
    ldr r1,iAdrptTabAna
    ldr r4,iAdrptBuffer1
    ldr r0,[r4]
    add r6,r6,r0
    add r6,r6,#1
    str r6,[r4]
    str r0,[r1,r3,lsl #2]
    
    add r3,r3,#1
    str r3,[r2]
    mov r1,r0
    mov r0,r5
    bl triLetters         @ sort word letters
    mov r2,#0
100:
    pop {r1-r6,pc}
iAdrptTabBuffer:        .int ptTabBuffer
iAdrptTabAna:           .int ptTabAna
iAdriNBword:            .int iNBword
iAdrptBuffer1:          .int ptBuffer1
/******************************************************************/
/*     sort word letters                                  */ 
/******************************************************************/
/* r0  address begin word */
/* r1  address recept array */
triLetters:
    push {r1-r7,lr}
    mov r2,#0
1:
    ldrb r3,[r0,r2]         @ load letter
    cmp r3,#0               @ end word ?
    beq 6f
    cmp r2,#0               @ first letter ?
    bne 2f
    strb r3,[r1,r2]         @ yes store in first position
    add r2,r2,#1            @ increment indice
    b 1b                    @ and loop
2:
    mov r4,#0
3:                          @ begin loop to search insertion position
    ldrb r5,[r1,r4]         @ load letter 
    cmp r3,r5               @ compare
    blt 4f                  @ to low -> insertion
    add r4,r4,#1            @ increment indice
    cmp r4,r2               @ compare to letters number in place
    blt 3b                  @ search loop
    strb r3,[r1,r2]         @ else store in last position
    add r2,r2,#1
    b 1b                    @ and loop
4:                          @ move first letters in one position 
    sub r6,r2,#1            @ start indice
5:
    ldrb r5,[r1,r6]         @ load letter
    add r7,r6,#1            @ store indice - 1
    strb r5,[r1,r7]         @ store letter
    sub r6,r6,#1            @ decrement indice
    cmp r6,r4               @ end ?
    bge 5b                  @ no loop
    strb r3,[r1,r4]         @ else store letter in free position
    add r2,r2,#1
    b 1b                    @ and loop
6: 
    mov r3,#0               @ final zéro
    strb r3,[r1,r2]
100:
    pop {r1-r7,pc}
/***************************************************/
/*   Appel récursif Tri Rapide quicksort           */
/***************************************************/
/* r0 contains the address of table */
/* r1 contains index of first item  */
/* r2 contains the number of elements  > 0  */
/* r3 contains the address of table 2 */
triRapide:
    push {r2-r6,lr}         @ save registers
    mov r6,r3 
    sub r2,#1               @ last item index
    cmp r1,r2               @ first > last ? 
    bge 100f                @ yes -> end
    mov r4,r0               @ save r0
    mov r5,r2               @ save r2
    mov r3,r6
    bl partition1           @ cutting into 2 parts
    mov r2,r0               @ index partition
    mov r0,r4               @ table address
    bl triRapide            @ sort lower part
    mov r0,r4               @ table address
    add r1,r2,#1            @ index begin = index partition + 1
    add r2,r5,#1            @ number of elements
    bl triRapide            @ sort higter part
   
 100:                       @ end function
    pop {r2-r6,lr}          @ restaur  registers 
    bx lr                   @ return

/******************************************************************/
/*      Partition table elements                                */ 
/******************************************************************/
/* r0 contains the address of table */
/* r1 contains index of first item  */
/* r2 contains index of last item   */
/* r3 contains the address of table 2 */
partition1:
    push {r1-r12,lr}        @ save registers
    mov r8,r0               @ save address table 2
    mov r9,r1 
    ldr r10,[r8,r2,lsl #2]  @ load string address last index
    mov r4,r9               @ init with first index
    mov r5,r9               @ init with first index
1:                          @ begin loop
    ldr r6,[r8,r5,lsl #2]   @ load string address
    mov r0,r6
    mov r1,r10
    bl comparStrings
    cmp r0,#0
    ldrlt r7,[r8,r4,lsl #2]  @ if < swap value table
    strlt r6,[r8,r4,lsl #2]
    strlt r7,[r8,r5,lsl #2]
    ldrlt r7,[r3,r4,lsl #2]  @ swap array 2
    ldrlt r12,[r3,r5,lsl #2]
    strlt r7,[r3,r5,lsl #2]
    strlt r12,[r3,r4,lsl #2]
    addlt r4,#1              @ and increment index 1
    add    r5,#1             @ increment index 2
    cmp r5,r2                @ end ?
    blt 1b                   @ no -> loop
    ldr r7,[r8,r4,lsl #2]    @ swap value
    str r10,[r8,r4,lsl #2]
    str r7,[r8,r2,lsl #2]
    ldr r7,[r3,r4,lsl #2]    @ swap array 2
    ldr r12,[r3,r2,lsl #2]
    str r7,[r3,r2,lsl #2]
    str r12,[r3,r4,lsl #2]
    
    mov r0,r4                @ return index partition
100:
    pop {r1-r12,lr}
    bx lr
/************************************/       
/* Strings case sensitive comparisons  */
/************************************/      
/* r0 et r1 contains the address of strings */
/* return 0 in r0 if equals */
/* return -1 if string r0 < string r1 */
/* return 1  if string r0 > string r1 */
comparStrings:
    push {r1-r4}      @ save des registres
    mov r2,#0         @ counter
1:    
    ldrb r3,[r0,r2]   @ byte string 1
    ldrb r4,[r1,r2]   @ byte string 2
    cmp r3,r4
    movlt r0,#-1      @ small
    movgt r0,#1       @ greather  
    bne 100f          @ not equals
    cmp r3,#0         @ 0 end string
    moveq r0,#0       @ equals
    beq 100f          @ end string
    add r2,r2,#1      @ else add 1 in counter
    b 1b              @ and loop
100:
    pop {r1-r4}
    bx lr   

/***************************************************/
/*      ROUTINES INCLUDE                           */
/***************************************************/
.include "../affichage.inc"
bale able bela abel elba
cater carte crate caret trace
galen glean angle lange angel
regal glare alger lager large
lena lane lean elan neal
veil levi live vile evil

Arturo

wordset: map read.lines relative "unixdict.txt" => strip

anagrams: #[]

loop wordset 'word [
    anagram: sort to [:char] word
    unless key? anagrams anagram ->
        anagrams\[anagram]: new []

    anagrams\[anagram]: anagrams\[anagram] ++ word
]

loop select values anagrams 'x [5 =< size x] 'words ->
    print join.with:", " words
Output:
abel, able, bale, bela, elba
alger, glare, lager, large, regal
angel, angle, galen, glean, lange
caret, carte, cater, crate, trace
elan, lane, lean, lena, neal
evil, levi, live, veil, vile

AutoHotkey

Following code should work for AHK 1.0.* and 1.1* versions:

FileRead, Contents, unixdict.txt
Loop, Parse, Contents, % "`n", % "`r"
{ ; parsing each line of the file we just read
    Loop, Parse, A_LoopField ; parsing each letter/character of the current word
        Dummy .= "," A_LoopField
    Sort, Dummy, % "D," ; sorting those letters before removing the delimiters (comma)
    StringReplace, Dummy, Dummy, % ",", % "", All
    List .= "`n" Dummy " " A_LoopField , Dummy := ""
} ; at this point, we have a list where each line looks like <LETTERS><SPACE><WORD>
Count := 0, Contents := "", List := SubStr(List,2)
Sort, List
Loop, Parse, List, % "`n", % "`r"
{ ; now the list is sorted, parse it counting the consecutive lines with the same set of <LETTERS>
    Max := (Count > Max) ? Count : Max
    StringSplit, LinePart, A_LoopField, % " " ; (LinePart1 are the letters, LinePart2 is the word)
    If ( PreviousLinePart1 = LinePart1 )
        Count++ , WordList .= "," LinePart2
    Else
        var_Result .= ( Count <> Max ) ? "" ; don't append if the number of common words is too low
        : "`n" Count "`t" PreviousLinePart1 "`t" SubStr(WordList,2)
        , WordList := "" , Count := 0
    PreviousLinePart1 := LinePart1
}
List := "", var_Result := SubStr(var_Result,2)
Sort, var_Result, R N ; make the higher scores appear first
Loop, Parse, var_Result, % "`n", % "`r"
    If ( 1 == InStr(A_LoopField,Max) )
        var_Output .= "`n" A_LoopField
    Else ; output only those sets of letters that scored the maximum amount of common words
        Break
MsgBox, % ClipBoard := SubStr(var_Output,2) ; the result is also copied to the clipboard
Output:
4	aeln	lane,lean,lena,neal
4	aeglr	glare,lager,large,regal
4	aegln	angle,galen,glean,lange
4	acert	carte,cater,crate,trace
4	abel	able,bale,bela,elba
4	eilv	levi,live,veil,vile

AWK

# JUMBLEA.AWK - words with the most duplicate spellings
# syntax: GAWK -f JUMBLEA.AWK UNIXDICT.TXT
{   for (i=1; i<=NF; i++) {
      w = sortstr(toupper($i))
      arr[w] = arr[w] $i " "
      n = gsub(/ /,"&",arr[w])
      if (max_n < n) { max_n = n }
    }
}
END {
    for (w in arr) {
      if (gsub(/ /,"&",arr[w]) == max_n) {
        printf("%s\t%s\n",w,arr[w])
      }
    }
    exit(0)
}
function sortstr(str,  i,j,leng) {
    leng = length(str)
    for (i=2; i<=leng; i++) {
      for (j=i; j>1 && substr(str,j-1,1) > substr(str,j,1); j--) {
        str = substr(str,1,j-2) substr(str,j,1) substr(str,j-1,1) substr(str,j+1)
      }
    }
    return(str)
}
Output:
ABEL    abel able bale bela elba
ACERT   caret carte cater crate trace
AEGLN   angel angle galen glean lange
AEGLR   alger glare lager large regal
AELN    elan lane lean lena neal
EILV    evil levi live veil vile

Alternatively, non-POSIX version:

Works with: gawk
#!/bin/gawk -f

{   patsplit($0, chars, ".")
    asort(chars)
    sorted = ""
    for (i = 1; i <= length(chars); i++)
	sorted = sorted chars[i]

    if (++count[sorted] > countMax) countMax++
    accum[sorted] = accum[sorted] " " $0
}

END {
    for (i in accum)
	if (count[i] == countMax)
	    print substr(accum[i], 2)
}

BASIC

BaCon

OPTION COLLAPSE TRUE

DECLARE idx$ ASSOC STRING

FOR w$ IN LOAD$("unixdict.txt") STEP NL$

    set$ = SORT$(EXPLODE$(w$, 1))

    idx$(set$) = APPEND$(idx$(set$), 0, w$)
    total = AMOUNT(idx$(set$))

    IF MaxCount < total THEN MaxCount = total
NEXT

PRINT "Analyzing took ", TIMER, " msecs.", NL$

LOOKUP idx$ TO n$ SIZE x
FOR y = 0 TO x-1
    IF MaxCount = AMOUNT(idx$(n$[y])) THEN PRINT n$[y], ": ", idx$(n$[y])
NEXT
Output:
Analyzing took 35 msecs.

a b e l: abel able bale bela elba
a e g l r: alger glare lager large regal
a e g l n: angel angle galen glean lange
a c e r t: caret carte cater crate trace
a e l n: elan lane lean lena neal
e i l v: evil levi live veil vile

BBC BASIC

      INSTALL @lib$+"SORTLIB"
      sort% = FN_sortinit(0,0)
      
      REM Count number of words in dictionary:
      nwords% = 0
      dict% = OPENIN("unixdict.txt")
      WHILE NOT EOF#dict%
        word$ = GET$#dict%
        nwords% += 1
      ENDWHILE
      CLOSE #dict%
      
      REM Create arrays big enough to contain the dictionary:
      DIM dict$(nwords%), sort$(nwords%)
      
      REM Load the dictionary and sort the characters in the words:
      dict% = OPENIN("unixdict.txt")
      FOR word% = 1 TO nwords%
        word$ = GET$#dict%
        dict$(word%) = word$
        sort$(word%) = FNsortchars(word$)
      NEXT word%
      CLOSE #dict%
      
      REM Sort arrays using the 'sorted character' words as a key:
      C% = nwords%
      CALL sort%, sort$(1), dict$(1)
      
      REM Count the longest sets of anagrams:
      max% = 0
      set% = 1
      FOR word% = 1 TO nwords%-1
        IF sort$(word%) = sort$(word%+1) THEN
          set% += 1
        ELSE
          IF set% > max% THEN max% = set%
          set% = 1
        ENDIF
      NEXT word%
      
      REM Output the results:
      set% = 1
      FOR word% = 1 TO nwords%-1
        IF sort$(word%) = sort$(word%+1) THEN
          set% += 1
        ELSE
          IF set% = max% THEN
            FOR anagram% = word%-max%+1 TO word%
              PRINT dict$(anagram%),;
            NEXT
            PRINT
          ENDIF
          set% = 1
        ENDIF
      NEXT word%
      END
      
      DEF FNsortchars(word$)
      LOCAL C%, char&()
      DIM char&(LEN(word$))
      $$^char&(0) = word$
      C% = LEN(word$)
      CALL sort%, char&(0)
      = $$^char&(0)
Output:
abel      able      bale      bela      elba
caret     carte     cater     crate     trace
angel     angle     galen     glean     lange
alger     glare     lager     large     regal
elan      lane      lean      lena      neal
evil      levi      live      veil      vile

BQN

words  •FLines "unixdict.txt"
•Show¨{𝕩/˜(⊢=⌈´)¨𝕩} (⊐∧¨) words
 "abel" "able" "bale" "bela" "elba" 
 "alger" "glare" "lager" "large" "regal" 
 "angel" "angle" "galen" "glean" "lange" 
 "caret" "carte" "cater" "crate" "trace" 
 "elan" "lane" "lean" "lena" "neal" 
 "evil" "levi" "live" "veil" "vile" 

Assumes that unixdict.txt is in the same folder. The JS implementation must be run in Node.js to have access to the filesystem.

(⊐∧¨)⊸⊔ is an expression which sorts all words and groups based on them.

Bracmat

This solution makes extensive use of Bracmat's computer algebra mechanisms. A trick is needed to handle words that are merely repetitions of a single letter, such as iii. That's why the variabe sum isn't initialised with 0, but with a non-number, in this case the empty string. Also te correct handling of characters 0-9 needs a trick so that they are not numerically added: they are prepended with a non-digit, an N in this case. After completely traversing the word list, the program writes a file product.txt that can be visually inspected. The program is not fast. (Minutes rather than seconds.)

( get$("unixdict.txt",STR):?list
& 1:?product
&   whl
  ' ( @(!list:(%?word:?w) \n ?list)
    & :?sum
    &   whl
      ' ( @(!w:%?let ?w)
        & (!let:~#|str$(N !let))+!sum:?sum
        )
    & !sum^!word*!product:?product
    )
& lst$(product,"product.txt",NEW)
& 0:?max
& :?group
& (   !product
    :   ?
      * ?^(%+%:?exp)
      * ( ?
        &   !exp
          :   ?
            + ( [>!max:[?max&!exp:?group
              | [~<!max&!group !exp:?group
              )
        & ~
        )
  | out$!group
  )
);
Output:
  abel+able+bale+bela+elba
  caret+carte+cater+crate+trace
  angel+angle+galen+glean+lange
  alger+glare+lager+large+regal
  elan+lane+lean+lena+neal
  evil+levi+live+veil+vile

C

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <time.h>

char *sortedWord(const char *word, char *wbuf)
{
    char *p1, *p2, *endwrd;
    char t;
    int swaps;

    strcpy(wbuf, word);
    endwrd = wbuf+strlen(wbuf);
    do {
       swaps = 0;
       p1 = wbuf; p2 = endwrd-1;
       while (p1<p2) {
          if (*p2 > *p1) {
             t = *p2; *p2 = *p1; *p1 = t;
             swaps = 1;
          }
          p1++; p2--;
       }
       p1 = wbuf; p2 = p1+1;
       while(p2 < endwrd) {
           if (*p2 > *p1) {
             t = *p2; *p2 = *p1; *p1 = t;
             swaps = 1;
           }
           p1++; p2++;
       }
    } while (swaps);
    return wbuf;
}

static
short cxmap[] = {
    0x06, 0x1f, 0x4d, 0x0c, 0x5c, 0x28, 0x5d, 0x0e, 0x09, 0x33, 0x31, 0x56,
    0x52, 0x19, 0x29, 0x53, 0x32, 0x48, 0x35, 0x55, 0x5e, 0x14, 0x27, 0x24,
    0x02, 0x3e, 0x18, 0x4a, 0x3f, 0x4c, 0x45, 0x30, 0x08, 0x2c, 0x1a, 0x03,
    0x0b, 0x0d, 0x4f, 0x07, 0x20, 0x1d, 0x51, 0x3b, 0x11, 0x58, 0x00, 0x49,
    0x15, 0x2d, 0x41, 0x17, 0x5f, 0x39, 0x16, 0x42, 0x37, 0x22, 0x1c, 0x0f,
    0x43, 0x5b, 0x46, 0x4b, 0x0a, 0x26, 0x2e, 0x40, 0x12, 0x21, 0x3c, 0x36,
    0x38, 0x1e, 0x01, 0x1b, 0x05, 0x4e, 0x44, 0x3d, 0x04, 0x10, 0x5a, 0x2a,
    0x23, 0x34, 0x25, 0x2f, 0x2b, 0x50, 0x3a, 0x54, 0x47, 0x59, 0x13, 0x57,
   };
#define CXMAP_SIZE (sizeof(cxmap)/sizeof(short))


int Str_Hash( const char *key, int ix_max )
{
   const char *cp;
   short mash;
   int  hash = 33501551;
   for (cp = key; *cp; cp++) {
      mash = cxmap[*cp % CXMAP_SIZE];
      hash = (hash >>4) ^ 0x5C5CF5C ^ ((hash<<1) + (mash<<5));
      hash &= 0x3FFFFFFF;
      }
   return  hash % ix_max;
}

typedef struct sDictWord  *DictWord;
struct sDictWord {
    const char *word;
    DictWord next;
};

typedef struct sHashEntry *HashEntry;
struct sHashEntry {
    const char *key;
    HashEntry next;
    DictWord  words;
    HashEntry link;
    short wordCount;
};

#define HT_SIZE 8192

HashEntry hashTable[HT_SIZE];

HashEntry mostPerms = NULL;

int buildAnagrams( FILE *fin )
{
    char buffer[40];
    char bufr2[40];
    char *hkey;
    int hix;
    HashEntry he, *hep;
    DictWord  we;
    int  maxPC = 2;
    int numWords = 0;
    
    while ( fgets(buffer, 40, fin)) {
        for(hkey = buffer; *hkey && (*hkey!='\n'); hkey++);
        *hkey = 0;
        hkey = sortedWord(buffer, bufr2);
        hix = Str_Hash(hkey, HT_SIZE);
        he = hashTable[hix]; hep = &hashTable[hix];
        while( he && strcmp(he->key , hkey) ) {
            hep = &he->next;
            he = he->next;
        }
        if ( ! he ) {
            he = malloc(sizeof(struct sHashEntry));
            he->next = NULL;
            he->key = strdup(hkey);
            he->wordCount = 0;
            he->words = NULL;
            he->link = NULL;
            *hep = he;
        }
        we = malloc(sizeof(struct sDictWord));
        we->word = strdup(buffer);
        we->next = he->words;
        he->words = we;
        he->wordCount++;
        if ( maxPC < he->wordCount) {
            maxPC = he->wordCount;
            mostPerms = he;
            he->link = NULL;
        }
        else if (maxPC == he->wordCount) {
            he->link = mostPerms;
            mostPerms = he;
        }
         
        numWords++;
    }
    printf("%d words in dictionary max ana=%d\n", numWords, maxPC);
    return maxPC;
}


int main( ) 
{
    HashEntry he;
    DictWord  we;
    FILE *f1;
    
    f1 = fopen("unixdict.txt","r");
    buildAnagrams(f1);
    fclose(f1);
    
    f1 = fopen("anaout.txt","w");
//    f1 = stdout;

    for (he = mostPerms; he; he = he->link) {
        fprintf(f1,"%d:", he->wordCount);
        for(we = he->words; we; we = we->next) {
            fprintf(f1,"%s, ", we->word);
        }
        fprintf(f1, "\n");
    }

    fclose(f1);
    return 0;
}
Output:

(less than 1 second on old P500)

5:vile, veil, live, levi, evil, 
5:trace, crate, cater, carte, caret, 
5:regal, large, lager, glare, alger, 
5:neal, lena, lean, lane, elan, 
5:lange, glean, galen, angle, angel, 
5:elba, bela, bale, able, abel, 

A much shorter version with no fancy data structures:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <string.h>

typedef struct { const char *key, *word; int cnt; } kw_t;

int lst_cmp(const void *a, const void *b)
{
	return strcmp(((const kw_t*)a)->key, ((const kw_t*)b)->key);
}

/* Bubble sort.  Faster than stock qsort(), believe it or not */
void sort_letters(char *s)
{
	int i, j;
	char t;
	for (i = 0; s[i] != '\0'; i++) {
		for (j = i + 1; s[j] != '\0'; j++)
			if (s[j] < s[i]) {
				t = s[j]; s[j] = s[i]; s[i] = t;
			}
	}
}

int main()
{
	struct stat s;
	char *words, *keys;
	size_t i, j, k, longest, offset;
	int n_word = 0;
	kw_t *list;

	int fd = open("unixdict.txt", O_RDONLY);
	if (fd == -1) return 1;
	fstat(fd, &s);
	words = malloc(s.st_size * 2);
	keys  = words + s.st_size;

	read(fd, words, s.st_size);
	memcpy(keys, words, s.st_size);

	/* change newline to null for easy use; sort letters in keys */
	for (i = j = 0; i < s.st_size; i++) {
		if (words[i] == '\n') {
			words[i] = keys[i] = '\0';
			sort_letters(keys + j);
			j = i + 1;
			n_word ++;
		}
	}

	list = calloc(n_word, sizeof(kw_t));

	/* make key/word pointer pairs for sorting */
	for (i = j = k = 0; i < s.st_size; i++) {
		if (words[i] == '\0') {
			list[j].key = keys + k;
			list[j].word = words + k;
			k = i + 1;
			j++;
		}
	}

	qsort(list, n_word, sizeof(kw_t), lst_cmp);

	/* count each key's repetition */
	for (i = j = k = offset = longest = 0; i < n_word; i++) {
		if (!strcmp(list[i].key, list[j].key)) {
			++k;
			continue;
		}

		/* move current longest to begining of array */
		if (k < longest) {
			k = 0;
			j = i;
			continue;
		}

		if (k > longest) offset = 0;

		while (j < i) list[offset++] = list[j++];
		longest = k;
		k = 0;
	}

	/* show the longest */
	for (i = 0; i < offset; i++) {
		printf("%s ", list[i].word);
		if (i < n_word - 1 && strcmp(list[i].key, list[i+1].key))
			printf("\n");
	}

	/* free(list); free(words); */
	close(fd);
	return 0;
}
Output:
abel able bale bela elba 
caret carte cater crate trace 
angel angle galen glean lange 
alger glare lager large regal 
elan lane lean lena neal 
evil levi live veil vile

C#

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Net;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

namespace Anagram
{
    class Program
    {
        const string DICO_URL = "http://wiki.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt";

        static void Main( string[] args )
        {
            WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(DICO_URL);
            string[] words;
            using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(request.GetResponse().GetResponseStream(), true)) {
                words = Regex.Split(sr.ReadToEnd(), @"\r?\n");
            }
            var groups = from string w in words
                         group w by string.Concat(w.OrderBy(x => x)) into c
                         group c by c.Count() into d
                         orderby d.Key descending
                         select d;
            foreach (var c in groups.First()) {
                Console.WriteLine(string.Join(" ", c));
            }
        }
    }
}
Output:
abel able bale bela elba
alger glare lager large regal
angel angle galen glean lange
caret carte cater crate trace
elan lane lean lena neal
evil levi live veil vile

C++

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>
#include <map>
#include <vector>
#include <algorithm>
#include <iterator>
 
int main() {
  std::ifstream in("unixdict.txt");
  typedef  std::map<std::string, std::vector<std::string> > AnagramMap;
  AnagramMap anagrams;
 
  std::string word;
  size_t count = 0;
  while (std::getline(in, word)) {
    std::string key = word;
    std::sort(key.begin(), key.end());
    // note: the [] op. automatically inserts a new value if key does not exist
    AnagramMap::mapped_type & v = anagrams[key];
    v.push_back(word);
    count = std::max(count, v.size());
  }
 
  in.close();
 
  for (AnagramMap::const_iterator it = anagrams.begin(), e = anagrams.end();
       it != e; it++)
    if (it->second.size() >= count) {
      std::copy(it->second.begin(), it->second.end(),
                std::ostream_iterator<std::string>(std::cout, ", "));
      std::cout << std::endl;
    }
  return 0;
}
Output:
abel, able, bale, bela, elba, 
caret, carte, cater, crate, trace, 
angel, angle, galen, glean, lange, 
alger, glare, lager, large, regal, 
elan, lane, lean, lena, neal, 
evil, levi, live, veil, vile,

Clojure

Assume wordfile is the path of the local file containing the words. This code makes a map (groups) whose keys are sorted letters and values are lists of the key's anagrams. It then determines the length of the longest list, and prints out all the lists of that length.

(require '[clojure.java.io :as io])

(def groups
  (with-open [r (io/reader wordfile)]
    (group-by sort (line-seq r))))

(let [wordlists (sort-by (comp - count) (vals groups))
      maxlength (count (first wordlists))]
  (doseq [wordlist (take-while #(= (count %) maxlength) wordlists)]
    (println wordlist))
(->> (slurp "http://wiki.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt")
     clojure.string/split-lines
     (group-by sort)
     vals
     (sort-by count >)  ;; sort in reverse
     (partition-by count)
     first)

;; (["caret" "carte" "cater" "crate" "trace"] 
;;  ["angel" "angle" "galen" "glean" "lange"] 
;;  ["elan" "lane" "lean" "lena" "neal"] 
;;  ["alger" "glare" "lager" "large" "regal"] 
;;  ["evil" "levi" "live" "veil" "vile"] 
;;  ["abel" "able" "bale" "bela" "elba"])

CLU

% Keep a list of anagrams
anagrams = cluster is new, add, largest_size, sets
    anagram_set = struct[letters: string, words: array[string]]
    rep = array[anagram_set]
    
    new = proc () returns (cvt)
        return(rep$[])
    end new
    
    % Sort the letters in a string
    sort = proc (s: string) returns (string)  
        chars: array[int] := array[int]$fill(0,256,0) % Assuming ASCII here
        for c: char in string$chars(s) do
            i: int := char$c2i(c)
            chars[i] := chars[i] + 1
        end
        sorted: array[char] := array[char]$predict(1,string$size(s))
        for i: int in array[int]$indexes(chars) do
            for j: int in int$from_to(1,chars[i]) do
                array[char]$addh(sorted,char$i2c(i))
            end
        end
        return(string$ac2s(sorted))
    end sort
    
    % Add a word
    add = proc (a: cvt, s: string)
        letters: string := sort(s)
        as: anagram_set
        begin
            for t_as: anagram_set in rep$elements(a) do
                if t_as.letters = letters then
                    as := t_as
                    exit found
                end
            end
            as := anagram_set${letters: letters, words: array[string]$[]}
            rep$addh(a, as)
        end except when found: end
        array[string]$addh(as.words, s)
    end add
    
    % Find the size of the largest set
    largest_size = proc (a: cvt) returns (int)
        size: int := 0
        for as: anagram_set in rep$elements(a) do
            cur: int := array[string]$size(as.words)
            if cur > size then size := cur end
        end
        return(size)
    end largest_size
    
    % Yield all sets of a given size
    sets = iter (a: cvt, s: int) yields (sequence[string])
        for as: anagram_set in rep$elements(a) do
            if array[string]$size(as.words) = s then
                yield(sequence[string]$a2s(as.words))
            end
        end
    end sets
end anagrams

start_up = proc ()
    an: anagrams := anagrams$new()
    dict: stream := stream$open(file_name$parse("unixdict.txt"), "read")
    while true do   
        anagrams$add(an, stream$getl(dict))
        except when end_of_file: break end
    end
    stream$close(dict)
    
    po: stream := stream$primary_output()
    max: int := anagrams$largest_size(an)
    stream$putl(po, "Largest amount of anagrams per set: " || int$unparse(max))
    stream$putl(po, "")
    
    for words: sequence[string] in anagrams$sets(an, max) do
        for word: string in sequence[string]$elements(words) do
            stream$putleft(po, word, 7)
        end
        stream$putl(po, "")
    end
end start_up
Output:
Largest amount of anagrams per set: 5

abel   able   bale   bela   elba
alger  glare  lager  large  regal
angel  angle  galen  glean  lange
caret  carte  cater  crate  trace
elan   lane   lean   lena   neal
evil   levi   live   veil   vile

COBOL

Tested with GnuCOBOL 2.0. ALLWORDS output display trimmed for width.

      *> TECTONICS
      *>   wget http://wiki.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt
      *>   or visit https://sourceforge.net/projects/souptonuts/files
      *>   or snag ftp://ftp.openwall.com/pub/wordlists/all.gz
      *>      for a 5 million all language word file (a few phrases)
      *>   cobc -xj anagrams.cob [-DMOSTWORDS -DMOREWORDS -DALLWORDS]
      *> ***************************************************************
       identification division.
       program-id. anagrams.

       environment division.
       configuration section.
       repository.
           function all intrinsic.

       input-output section.
       file-control.
           select words-in
           assign to wordfile
           organization is line sequential
           status is words-status
           .

       REPLACE ==:LETTERS:== BY ==42==.

       data division.
       file section.
       fd words-in record is varying from 1 to :LETTERS: characters
                             depending on word-length.
       01 word-record.
          05 word-data         pic x occurs 0 to :LETTERS: times
                                     depending on word-length.

       working-storage section.
       >>IF ALLWORDS DEFINED
       01 wordfile     constant as "/usr/local/share/dict/all.words".
       01 max-words    constant as 4802100.

       >>ELSE-IF MOSTWORDS DEFINED
       01 wordfile     constant as "/usr/local/share/dict/linux.words".
       01 max-words    constant as 628000.

       >>ELSE-IF MOREWORDS DEFINED
       01 wordfile     constant as "/usr/share/dict/words".
       01 max-words    constant as 100000.

       >>ELSE
       01 wordfile     constant as "unixdict.txt".
       01 max-words    constant as 26000.
       >>END-IF

      *> The 5 million word file needs to restrict the word length
       >>IF ALLWORDS DEFINED
       01 max-letters          constant as 26.
       >>ELSE
       01 max-letters          constant as :LETTERS:.
       >>END-IF

       01 word-length          pic 99 comp-5.
       01 words-status         pic xx.
          88 ok-status         values '00' thru '09'.
          88 eof-status        value '10'.

      *> sortable word by letter table
       01 letter-index         usage index.
       01 letter-table.
          05 letters           occurs 1 to max-letters times
                               depending on word-length
                               ascending key letter
                               indexed by letter-index.
             10 letter         pic x.

      *> table of words
       01 sorted-index         usage index.
       01 word-table.
          05 word-list         occurs 0 to max-words times
                               depending on word-tally
                               ascending key sorted-word
                               indexed by sorted-index.
             10 match-count    pic 999 comp-5.
             10 this-word      pic x(max-letters).
             10 sorted-word    pic x(max-letters).
       01 sorted-display       pic x(10).

       01 interest-table.
          05 interest-list     pic 9(8) comp-5
                               occurs 0 to max-words times
                               depending on interest-tally.

       01 outer                pic 9(8) comp-5.
       01 inner                pic 9(8) comp-5.
       01 starter              pic 9(8) comp-5.
       01 ender                pic 9(8) comp-5.
       01 word-tally           pic 9(8) comp-5.
       01 interest-tally       pic 9(8) comp-5.
       01 tally-display        pic zz,zzz,zz9.

       01 most-matches         pic 99 comp-5.
       01 matches              pic 99 comp-5.
       01 match-display        pic z9.

      *> timing display
       01 time-stamp.
          05 filler            pic x(11).
          05 timer-hours       pic 99.
          05 filler            pic x.
          05 timer-minutes     pic 99.
          05 filler            pic x.
          05 timer-seconds     pic 99.
          05 filler            pic x.
          05 timer-subsec      pic v9(6).
       01 timer-elapsed        pic 9(6)v9(6).
       01 timer-value          pic 9(6)v9(6).
       01 timer-display        pic zzz,zz9.9(6).

      *> ***************************************************************
       procedure division.
       main-routine.

       >>IF ALLWORDS DEFINED
           display "** Words limited to " max-letters " letters **"
       >>END-IF

       perform show-time

       perform load-words
       perform find-most
       perform display-result

       perform show-time
       goback
       .

      *> ***************************************************************
       load-words.
       open input words-in
       if not ok-status then
           display "error opening " wordfile upon syserr
           move 1 to return-code
           goback
       end-if

       perform until exit
           read words-in
           if eof-status then exit perform end-if
           if not ok-status then
               display wordfile " read error: " words-status upon syserr
           end-if

           if word-length equal zero then exit perform cycle end-if

       >>IF ALLWORDS DEFINED
           move min(word-length, max-letters) to word-length
       >>END-IF

           add 1 to word-tally
           move word-record to this-word(word-tally) letter-table
           sort letters ascending key letter
           move letter-table to sorted-word(word-tally)
       end-perform

       move word-tally to tally-display
       display trim(tally-display) " words" with no advancing

       close words-in
       if not ok-status then
           display "error closing " wordfile upon syserr
           move 1 to return-code
       end-if

      *> sort word list by anagram check field
       sort word-list ascending key sorted-word
       .

      *> first entry in a list will end up with highest match count
       find-most.
       perform varying outer from 1 by 1 until outer > word-tally
           move 1 to matches
           add 1 to outer giving starter
           perform varying inner from starter by 1
                   until sorted-word(inner) not equal sorted-word(outer)
               add 1 to matches
           end-perform
           if matches > most-matches then
               move matches to most-matches
               initialize interest-table all to value
               move 0 to interest-tally
           end-if
           move matches to match-count(outer)
           if matches = most-matches then
               add 1 to interest-tally
               move outer to interest-list(interest-tally)
           end-if
       end-perform
       .

      *> only display the words with the most anagrams
       display-result.
       move interest-tally to tally-display
       move most-matches to match-display
       display ", most anagrams: " trim(match-display)
               ", with " trim(tally-display) " set" with no advancing
       if interest-tally not equal 1 then
           display "s" with no advancing
       end-if
       display " of interest"

       perform varying outer from 1 by 1 until outer > interest-tally
           move sorted-word(interest-list(outer)) to sorted-display
           display sorted-display
                   " [" trim(this-word(interest-list(outer)))
              with no advancing
           add 1 to interest-list(outer) giving starter
           add most-matches to interest-list(outer) giving ender
           perform varying inner from starter by 1
               until inner = ender
                   display ", " trim(this-word(inner))
                      with no advancing
           end-perform
           display "]"
       end-perform
       .

      *> elapsed time
       show-time.
       move formatted-current-date("YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.ssssss")
         to time-stamp
       compute timer-value = timer-hours * 3600 + timer-minutes * 60
                             + timer-seconds + timer-subsec
       if timer-elapsed = 0 then
           display time-stamp
           move timer-value to timer-elapsed
       else
           if timer-value < timer-elapsed then
               add 86400 to timer-value
           end-if
           subtract timer-elapsed from timer-value
           move timer-value to timer-display
           display time-stamp ", " trim(timer-display) " seconds"
       end-if
       .

       end program anagrams.
Output:
prompt$ time cobc -xjd anagrams.cob
2016-05-04T07:13:23.225147
25,104 words, most anagrams: 5, with 6 sets of interest
abel       [abel, able, bale, bela, elba]
acert      [caret, carte, cater, crate, trace]
aegln      [angel, angle, galen, glean, lange]
aeglr      [alger, glare, lager, large, regal]
aeln       [elan, lane, lean, lena, neal]
eilv       [evil, levi, live, veil, vile]
2016-05-04T07:13:23.262851, 0.037704 seconds

real    0m0.191s
user    0m0.152s
sys     0m0.024s

prompt$ cobc -xjd anagrams.cob -DMOSTWORDS
2016-05-04T07:13:42.570360
627,999 words, most anagrams: 17, with 1 set of interest
aerst      [arest, arets, aster, astre, earst, rates, reast, resat, serta, stare, stear, tares, tarse, taser, tears, teras, treas]
2016-05-04T07:13:43.832743, 1.262383 seconds

prompt$ cobc -xjd anagrams.cob -DALLWORDS
** Words limited to 26 letters **
2016-05-04T07:13:50.944146
4,802,017 words, most anagrams: 68, with 1 set of interest
aeinst     [aisnet, aniets, anites, antesi, anties, antise, ...
2016-05-04T07:14:02.475959, 11.531813 seconds

CoffeeScript

http = require 'http'

show_large_anagram_sets = (word_lst) ->
  anagrams = {}
  max_size = 0
  
  for word in word_lst
    key = word.split('').sort().join('')
    anagrams[key] ?= []
    anagrams[key].push word
    size = anagrams[key].length
    max_size = size if size > max_size
    
  for key, variations of anagrams
    if variations.length == max_size
      console.log variations.join ' '

get_word_list = (process) ->
  options =
    host: "wiki.puzzlers.org"
    path: "/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt"
  
  req = http.request options, (res) ->
    s = ''
    res.on 'data', (chunk) ->
      s += chunk
    res.on 'end', ->
      process s.split '\n'
  req.end()
  
get_word_list show_large_anagram_sets
Output:
> coffee anagrams.coffee 
[ 'abel', 'able', 'bale', 'bela', 'elba' ]
[ 'alger', 'glare', 'lager', 'large', 'regal' ]
[ 'angel', 'angle', 'galen', 'glean', 'lange' ]
[ 'caret', 'carte', 'cater', 'crate', 'trace' ]
[ 'elan', 'lane', 'lean', 'lena', 'neal' ]
[ 'evil', 'levi', 'live', 'veil', 'vile' ]

Common Lisp

Library: DRAKMA

to retrieve the wordlist.

(defun anagrams (&optional (url "http://wiki.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt"))
  (let ((words (drakma:http-request url :want-stream t))
        (wordsets (make-hash-table :test 'equalp)))
    ;; populate the wordsets and close stream
    (do ((word (read-line words nil nil) (read-line words nil nil)))
        ((null word) (close words))
      (let ((letters (sort (copy-seq word) 'char<)))
        (multiple-value-bind (pair presentp)
            (gethash letters wordsets)
          (if presentp
           (setf (car pair) (1+ (car pair))
                 (cdr pair) (cons word (cdr pair)))
           (setf (gethash letters wordsets)
                 (cons 1 (list word)))))))
    ;; find and return the biggest wordsets
    (loop with maxcount = 0 with maxwordsets = '()
          for pair being each hash-value of wordsets
          if (> (car pair) maxcount)
          do (setf maxcount (car pair)
                   maxwordsets (list (cdr pair)))
          else if (eql (car pair) maxcount)
          do (push (cdr pair) maxwordsets)
          finally (return (values maxwordsets maxcount)))))

Evalutating

(multiple-value-bind (wordsets count) (anagrams)
  (pprint wordsets)
  (print count))
Output:
(("vile" "veil" "live" "levi" "evil")
 ("regal" "large" "lager" "glare" "alger")
 ("lange" "glean" "galen" "angle" "angel")
 ("neal" "lena" "lean" "lane" "elan")
 ("trace" "crate" "cater" "carte" "caret")
 ("elba" "bela" "bale" "able" "abel"))
5

Another method, assuming file is local:

(defun read-words (file)
  (with-open-file (stream file)
    (loop with w = "" while w collect (setf w (read-line stream nil)))))

(defun anagram (file)
  (let ((wordlist (read-words file))
	(h (make-hash-table :test #'equal))
	longest)
    (loop for w in wordlist with ws do
	  (setf ws (sort (copy-seq w) #'char<))
	  (setf (gethash ws h) (cons w (gethash ws h))))
    (loop for w being the hash-keys in h using (hash-value wl)
	  with max-len = 0 do
	  (let ((l (length wl)))
	    (if (> l max-len) (setf longest nil max-len l))
	    (if (= l max-len) (push wl longest))))
    longest))

(format t "~{~{~a ~}~^~%~}" (anagram "unixdict.txt"))
Output:
elba bela bale able abel 
regal large lager glare alger 
lange glean galen angle angel 
trace crate cater carte caret 
neal lena lean lane elan 
vile veil live levi evil

Component Pascal

BlackBox Component Builder

MODULE BbtAnagrams;
IMPORT StdLog,Files,Strings,Args;
CONST
	MAXPOOLSZ = 1024;
 
TYPE	
	Node = POINTER TO LIMITED RECORD;
		count: INTEGER;
		word: Args.String;
		desc: Node;
		next: Node;
	END;
 
	Pool = POINTER TO LIMITED RECORD
		capacity,max: INTEGER;
		words: POINTER TO ARRAY OF Node;
	END;
 
	PROCEDURE NewNode(word: ARRAY OF CHAR): Node;
	VAR
		n: Node;
	BEGIN
		NEW(n);n.count := 0;n.word := word$;
		n.desc := NIL;n.next := NIL;
		RETURN n
	END NewNode;
 
	PROCEDURE Index(s: ARRAY OF CHAR;cap: INTEGER): INTEGER;
	VAR
		i,sum: INTEGER;
	BEGIN
		sum := 0;
		FOR i := 0 TO  LEN(s$) DO
			INC(sum,ORD(s[i]))
		END;
		RETURN sum MOD cap
	END Index;
 
	PROCEDURE ISort(VAR s: ARRAY OF CHAR); 
	VAR 
        i, j: INTEGER; 
        t: CHAR; 
	BEGIN 
        FOR i := 0 TO LEN(s$) - 1 DO 
			j := i; 
			t := s[j]; 
			WHILE (j > 0) & (s[j -1] > t) DO 
					s[j] := s[j - 1]; 
					DEC(j) 
			END; 
			s[j] := t 
        END 
	END ISort; 
 
	PROCEDURE SameLetters(x,y: ARRAY OF CHAR): BOOLEAN; 
	BEGIN 
        ISort(x);ISort(y); 
        RETURN x = y
	END SameLetters; 
 
	PROCEDURE NewPoolWith(cap: INTEGER): Pool;
	VAR
		i: INTEGER;
		p: Pool;
	BEGIN
		NEW(p);
		p.capacity := cap;
		p.max := 0;
		NEW(p.words,cap);
		i := 0;
		WHILE i < p.capacity DO
			p.words[i] := NIL;
			INC(i);
		END;
		RETURN p
	END NewPoolWith;

	PROCEDURE NewPool(): Pool;
	BEGIN
		RETURN NewPoolWith(MAXPOOLSZ);
	END NewPool;
 
	PROCEDURE (p: Pool) Add(w: ARRAY OF CHAR), NEW;
	VAR
		idx: INTEGER;
		iter,n: Node;
	BEGIN
		idx := Index(w,p.capacity);
		iter := p.words[idx];
		n := NewNode(w);
		WHILE(iter # NIL) DO
			IF SameLetters(w,iter.word) THEN
				INC(iter.count);
				IF iter.count > p.max THEN p.max := iter.count END;
				n.desc := iter.desc;
				iter.desc := n;
				RETURN
			END;
			iter := iter.next
		END;
		ASSERT(iter = NIL);
		n.next := p.words[idx];p.words[idx] := n
	END Add;
 
	PROCEDURE ShowAnagrams(l: Node);
	VAR
		iter: Node;
	BEGIN
		iter := l;
		WHILE iter # NIL DO
			StdLog.String(iter.word);StdLog.String(" ");
			iter := iter.desc
		END;
		StdLog.Ln
	END ShowAnagrams;
 
	PROCEDURE (p: Pool) ShowMax(),NEW;
	VAR
		i: INTEGER;
		iter: Node;
	BEGIN
		FOR i := 0 TO LEN(p.words) - 1 DO
			IF p.words[i] # NIL THEN
				iter := p.words^[i];
				WHILE iter # NIL DO
					IF iter.count = p.max THEN
						ShowAnagrams(iter); 
					END;
					iter := iter.next
				END
			END
		END
	END ShowMax;
	
	PROCEDURE GetLine(rd: Files.Reader; OUT str: ARRAY OF CHAR);
	VAR
		i: INTEGER;
		b: BYTE;
	BEGIN
		rd.ReadByte(b);i := 0;
		WHILE (~rd.eof) & (i < LEN(str)) DO
			IF (b = ORD(0DX)) OR (b = ORD(0AX)) THEN str[i] := 0X; RETURN  END; 
			str[i] := CHR(b);
			rd.ReadByte(b);INC(i)
		END;
		str[LEN(str) - 1] := 0X
	END GetLine;
	
	PROCEDURE DoProcess*;
	VAR
		params : Args.Params;
		loc: Files.Locator;
		fd: Files.File;
		rd: Files.Reader;
		line: ARRAY 81 OF CHAR;
		p: Pool;
	BEGIN
		Args.Get(params);
		IF params.argc = 1 THEN 
		  loc := Files.dir.This("Bbt");
			fd := Files.dir.Old(loc,params.args[0]$,FALSE);
			StdLog.String("Processing: " + params.args[0]);StdLog.Ln;StdLog.Ln;
			rd := fd.NewReader(NIL);
			p := NewPool();
			REPEAT
				GetLine(rd,line);
				p.Add(line);
			UNTIL rd.eof;
			p.ShowMax()
		ELSE
			StdLog.String("Error: Missing file to process");StdLog.Ln
		END;
	END DoProcess;
 
END BbtAnagrams.

Execute:^Q BbtAnagrams.DoProcess unixdict.txt~

Output:
Processing: unixdict.txt

abel elba bela bale able 
elan neal lena lean lane 
evil vile veil live levi 
angel lange glean galen angle 
alger regal large lager glare 
caret trace crate cater carte 


Crystal

Translation of: Ruby
require "http/client"

response = HTTP::Client.get("http://wiki.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt")

if response.body?
  words : Array(String) = response.body.split

  anagram = {} of String => Array(String)

  words.each do |word|
    key = word.split("").sort.join

    if !anagram[key]?
      anagram[key] = [word]
    else
      anagram[key] << word
    end
  end

  count = anagram.values.map { |ana| ana.size }.max
  anagram.each_value { |ana| puts ana if ana.size >= count }
end
Output:
["abel", "able", "bale", "bela", "elba"]
["alger", "glare", "lager", "large", "regal"]
["angel", "angle", "galen", "glean", "lange"]
["caret", "carte", "cater", "crate", "trace"]
["elan", "lane", "lean", "lena", "neal"]
["evil", "levi", "live", "veil", "vile"]

D

Short Functional Version

import std.stdio, std.algorithm, std.string, std.exception, std.file;

void main() {
    string[][ubyte[]] an;
    foreach (w; "unixdict.txt".readText.splitLines)
        an[w.dup.representation.sort().release.assumeUnique] ~= w;
    immutable m = an.byValue.map!q{ a.length }.reduce!max;
    writefln("%(%s\n%)", an.byValue.filter!(ws => ws.length == m));
}
Output:
["caret", "carte", "cater", "crate", "trace"]
["evil", "levi", "live", "veil", "vile"]
["abel", "able", "bale", "bela", "elba"]
["elan", "lane", "lean", "lena", "neal"]
["alger", "glare", "lager", "large", "regal"]
["angel", "angle", "galen", "glean", "lange"]

Runtime: about 0.07 seconds.

Faster Version

Less safe, same output.

void main() {
    import std.stdio, std.algorithm, std.file, std.string;

    auto keys = "unixdict.txt".readText!(char[]);
    immutable vals = keys.idup;
    string[][string] anags;
    foreach (w; keys.splitter) {
        immutable k = w.representation.sort().release.assumeUTF;
        anags[k] ~= vals[k.ptr - keys.ptr .. k.ptr - keys.ptr + k.length];
    }
    //immutable m = anags.byValue.maxs!q{ a.length };
    immutable m = anags.byValue.map!q{ a.length }.reduce!max;
    writefln("%(%-(%s %)\n%)", anags.byValue.filter!(ws => ws.length == m));
}

Runtime: about 0.06 seconds.

Delphi

program AnagramsTest;

{$APPTYPE CONSOLE}

{$R *.res}

uses
  System.SysUtils,
  System.Classes,
  System.Diagnostics;

function Sort(s: string): string;
var
  c: Char;
  i, j, aLength: Integer;
begin
  aLength := s.Length;

  if aLength = 0 then
    exit('');

  Result := s;

  for i := 1 to aLength - 1 do
    for j := i + 1 to aLength do
      if result[i] > result[j] then
      begin
        c := result[i];
        result[i] := result[j];
        result[j] := c;
      end;
end;

function IsAnagram(s1, s2: string): Boolean;
begin
  if s1.Length <> s2.Length then
    exit(False);

  Result := Sort(s1) = Sort(s2);

end;

function Split(s: string; var Count: Integer; var words: string): Boolean;
var
  sCount: string;
begin
  sCount := s.Substring(0, 4);
  words := s.Substring(5);
  Result := TryStrToInt(sCount, Count);
end;

function CompareLength(List: TStringList; Index1, Index2: Integer): Integer;
begin
  result := List[Index1].Length - List[Index2].Length;
  if Result = 0 then
    Result := CompareText(Sort(List[Index2]), Sort(List[Index1]));
end;

var
  Dict: TStringList;
  i, j, Count, MaxCount, WordLength, Index: Integer;
  words: string;
  StopWatch: TStopwatch;

begin
  StopWatch := TStopwatch.Create;
  StopWatch.Start;

  Dict := TStringList.Create();
  Dict.LoadFromFile('unixdict.txt');

  Dict.CustomSort(CompareLength);

  Index := 0;
  words := Dict[Index];
  Count := 1;

  while Index + Count < Dict.Count do
  begin
    if IsAnagram(Dict[Index], Dict[Index + Count]) then
    begin
      words := words + ',' + Dict[Index + Count];
      Dict[Index + Count] := '';
      inc(Count);
    end
    else
    begin
      Dict[Index] := format('%.4d', [Count]) + ',' + words;
      inc(Index, Count);
      words := Dict[Index];
      Count := 1;
    end;
  end;

  // The last one not match any one
  if not Dict[Dict.count - 1].IsEmpty then
    Dict.Delete(Dict.count - 1);

  Dict.Sort;

  while Dict[0].IsEmpty do
    Dict.Delete(0);

  StopWatch.Stop;

  Writeln(Format('Time pass: %d ms [i7-4500U Windows 7]', [StopWatch.ElapsedMilliseconds]));

  Split(Dict[Dict.count - 1], MaxCount, words);
  writeln(#10'The anagrams that contain the most words, has ', MaxCount, ' words:'#10);
  writeln('Words found:'#10);

  Writeln('  ', words);

  for i := Dict.Count - 2 downto 0 do
  begin
    Split(Dict[i], Count, words);
    if Count = MaxCount then
      Writeln('  ', words)
    else
      Break;
  end;

  Dict.Free;
  Readln;
end.
Output:
Time pass: 700 ms [i7-4500U Windows 7]

The anagrams that contain the most words, has 5 words:

Words found:

  veil,live,vile,evil,levi
  trace,crate,cater,carte,caret
  regal,glare,large,lager,alger
  neal,lean,elan,lane,lena
  glean,angel,galen,angle,lange
  able,bale,abel,bela,elba

DuckDB

Works with: DuckDB version V1.0

Most of the heavy lifting in the program presented here is done by DuckDB's histogram() function, which returns a DuckDB `MAP`, as illustrated by the following example:

D select spectrum('alpha');
┌───────────────────────┐
│   spectrum('alpha')   │
│ map(varchar, ubigint) │
├───────────────────────┤
│ {a=2, h=1, l=1, p=1}  │
└───────────────────────┘

Despite the name "map", the order of the keys in a DuckDB MAP is important for determining the equality of MAP objects. Fortunately, the histogram() function sorts the keys; otherwise, we'd have to normalize them.

# The MAP giving the frequency counts of characters in the given string
create or replace function spectrum(str) as (
  select histogram(c)
  from (select unnest(regexp_extract_all(str,'.')) as c)
);

# Find the anagram groups having the most members.
# Each group is sorted, and the groups are sorted by first word in the group.
with words as (from read_csv('unixdict.txt', header=false) _(word)),
  histograms as (select word, spectrum(word) as h from words),
  groups as (select h, count(h) as c from histograms group by h order by c desc),
  mx as (select max(c) as mx from groups),
  maximals as (select h from groups, mx where c = mx.mx),
  results as (select (select array_agg(word).list_sort()
                      from histograms
                      where histograms.h = maximals.h ) as anagrams
              from maximals)
  select anagrams
  from results
  order by anagrams[1] ;
Output:
┌─────────────────────────────────────┐
│              anagrams               │
│              varchar[]              │
├─────────────────────────────────────┤
│ [abel, able, bale, bela, elba]      │
│ [alger, glare, lager, large, regal] │
│ [angel, angle, galen, glean, lange] │
│ [caret, carte, cater, crate, trace] │
│ [elan, lane, lean, lena, neal]      │
│ [evil, levi, live, veil, vile]      │
└─────────────────────────────────────┘

E

println("Downloading...")
when (def wordText := <http://wiki.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt> <- getText()) -> {
    def words := wordText.split("\n")

    def storage := [].asMap().diverge()
    def anagramTable extends storage {
        to get(key) { return storage.fetch(key, fn { storage[key] := [].diverge() }) }
    }

    println("Grouping...")
    var largestGroupSeen := 0
    for word in words {
        def anagramGroup := anagramTable[word.sort()]
        anagramGroup.push(word)
        largestGroupSeen max= anagramGroup.size()
    }

    println("Selecting...")
    for _ => anagramGroup ? (anagramGroup.size() == mostSeen) in anagramTable {
        println(anagramGroup.snapshot())
    }
}

EchoLisp

For a change, we will use the french dictionary - (lib 'dico.fr) - delivered within EchoLisp.

(require 'struct)
(require 'hash)
(require 'sql)
(require 'words)
(require 'dico.fr.no-accent)


(define mots-français (words-select #:any null 999999))
(string-delimiter "")

(define (string-sort str)
	(list->string (list-sort string<?  (string->list str))))
	
(define (ana-sort H words) ;; bump counter for each word
	(for ((w words))
		#:continue (< (string-length w) 4)
		(let [(key (string-sort w))]  (hash-set H key (1+ (hash-ref! H key 0))))))
		
;; input w word
;; output : list of matching words
(define (anagrams w words)
	(set! w (string-sort w))
	(make-set
	(for/list (( ana words))
		#:when (string=? w (string-sort ana))
		ana)))

(define (task words)
(define H (make-hash))
	(ana-sort H words) ;; build counters key= sorted-string, value = count
	(hash-get-keys H   ;; extract max count values
	    (for/fold (hmax 0) ((h H) ) 
	    #:when (>= (cdr h) hmax)
	    (cdr h))
	))
Output:
(length mots-français)
     209315
(task mots-français)
     (aeilns acenr) ;; two winners
(anagrams "acenr" mots-français)
     { ancre caner caren carne ceran cerna encra nacre nerac rance renac }
(anagrams "aeilns" mots-français)
     { alisen enlias enlisa ensila islaen islean laines lianes salien saline selina }

Eiffel

class
	ANAGRAMS

create
	make

feature

	make
			-- Set of Anagrams, containing most words.
		local
			count: INTEGER
		do
			read_wordlist
			across
				words as wo
			loop
				if wo.item.count > count then
					count := wo.item.count
				end
			end
			across
				words as wo
			loop
				if wo.item.count = count then
					across
						wo.item as list
					loop
						io.put_string (list.item + "%T")
					end
					io.new_line
				end
			end
		end

	original_list: STRING = "unixdict.txt"

feature {NONE}

	read_wordlist
			-- Preprocessed wordlist for finding Anagrams.
		local
			l_file: PLAIN_TEXT_FILE
			sorted: STRING
			empty_list: LINKED_LIST [STRING]
		do
			create l_file.make_open_read_write (original_list)
			l_file.read_stream (l_file.count)
			wordlist := l_file.last_string.split ('%N')
			l_file.close
			create words.make (wordlist.count)
			across
				wordlist as w
			loop
				create empty_list.make
				sorted := sort_letters (w.item)
				words.put (empty_list, sorted)
				if attached words.at (sorted) as ana then
					ana.extend (w.item)
				end
			end
		end

	wordlist: LIST [STRING]

	sort_letters (word: STRING): STRING
			--Sorted in alphabetical order.
		local
			letters: SORTED_TWO_WAY_LIST [STRING]
		do
			create letters.make
			create Result.make_empty
			across
				1 |..| word.count as i
			loop
				letters.extend (word.at (i.item).out)
			end
			across
				letters as s
			loop
				Result.append (s.item)
			end
		end

	words: HASH_TABLE [LINKED_LIST [STRING], STRING]

end
Output:
abel    able    bale    bela    elba
alger   glare   lager   large   regal
angel   angle   galen   glean   lange
caret   carte   cater   crate   trace
elan    lane    lean    lena    neal
evil    levi    live    veil    vile

Ela

Translation of: Haskell
open monad io list string

groupon f x y = f x == f y

lines = split "\n" << replace "\n\n" "\n" << replace "\r" "\n"

main = do
  fh <- readFile "c:\\test\\unixdict.txt" OpenMode
  f <- readLines fh
  closeFile fh
  let words = lines f
  let wix = groupBy (groupon fst) << sort $ zip (map sort words) words
  let mxl = maximum $ map length wix
  mapM_ (putLn << map snd) << filter ((==mxl) << length) $ wix
Output:
["vile","veil","live","levi","evil"]

["neal","lena","lean","lane","elan"] ["regal","large","lager","glare","alger"] ["lange","glean","galen","angle","angel"] ["trace","crate","cater","carte","caret"] ["elba","bela","bale","able","abel"]

Elena

ELENA 6.x:

import system'routines;
import system'calendar;
import system'io;
import system'collections;
import extensions;
import extensions'routines;
import extensions'text;
import algorithms;

extension op
{
     string normalized()
         = self.toArray().ascendant().summarize(new StringWriter());
}

public program()
{
    var start := now;
    
    auto dictionary := new Map<string,object>();

    File.assign("unixdict.txt").forEachLine::(word)
    {
        var key := word.normalized();
        var item := dictionary[key];
        if (nil == item)
        {
            item := new ArrayList();
            dictionary[key] := item
        };
    
        item.append(word)
    };

    dictionary.Values
        .quickSort::(former,later => former.Item2.Length > later.Item2.Length )
        .top(20)
        .forEach::(pair){ console.printLine(pair.Item2) };
    
    var end := now;
   
    var diff := end - start;

    console.printLine("Time elapsed in msec:",diff.Milliseconds);
    
    console.readChar()
}
Output:
abel,able,bale,bela,elba
alger,glare,lager,large,regal
evil,levi,live,veil,vile
elan,lane,lean,lena,neal
caret,carte,cater,crate,trace
angel,angle,galen,glean,lange
are,ear,era,rae
dare,dear,erda,read
diet,edit,tide,tied
cereus,recuse,rescue,secure
ames,mesa,same,seam
emit,item,mite,time
amen,mane,mean,name
enol,leon,lone,noel
esprit,priest,sprite,stripe
beard,bread,debar,debra
hare,hear,hera,rhea
apt,pat,pta,tap
aires,aries,arise,raise
keats,skate,stake,steak

Elixir

defmodule Anagrams do
  def find(file) do
    File.read!(file)
    |> String.split
    |> Enum.group_by(fn word -> String.codepoints(word) |> Enum.sort end)
    |> Enum.group_by(fn {_,v} -> length(v) end) 
    |> Enum.max 
    |> print
  end
  
  defp print({_,y}) do
    Enum.each(y, fn {_,e} -> Enum.sort(e) |> Enum.join(" ") |> IO.puts end)
  end
end

Anagrams.find("unixdict.txt")
Output:
caret carte cater crate trace
evil levi live veil vile
alger glare lager large regal
elan lane lean lena neal
angel angle galen glean lange
abel able bale bela elba

The same output, using File.Stream! to generate tuples containing the word and it's sorted value as strings.

File.stream!("unixdict.txt")
  |> Stream.map(&String.strip &1)
  |> Enum.group_by(&String.codepoints(&1) |> Enum.sort)
  |> Map.values
  |> Enum.group_by(&length &1)
  |> Enum.max
  |> elem(1)
  |> Enum.each(fn n -> Enum.sort(n) |> Enum.join(" ") |> IO.puts end)
Output:
caret carte cater crate trace
evil levi live veil vile
alger glare lager large regal
elan lane lean lena neal
angel angle galen glean lange
abel able bale bela elba

Emacs Lisp

(defun code-letters (str)
  "Sort STR into alphabetized list of individual letters."
  (sort (split-string str "" t) #'string<))

(defun code-letters-to-string (str)
  "Sort STR alphabetically and combine into one string."
  (apply #'concat (code-letters str)))

(defun remove-periods (str)
  "Remove periods (full stops) from STR."
  (string-replace "." "" str))

(defun list-pair (str)
  "Create paired list from STR, STR (unchanged) and alphabetized order of STR."
  ;; Remove periods from alphabetized order to make regex matching easier
  (let ((letter-list (remove-periods (code-letters-to-string str))))
    (list letter-list str)))

(defun pair-up (words)
  "Make list of lists of paired words, one alphabetized one original."
  (let ((paired-list)
        (temp-pair))
    (dolist (word words)
      (setq temp-pair (list-pair word))
      (push temp-pair paired-list))
    paired-list))

(defun create-list-of-numbers (my-list)
  "Create list of numbers from MY-LIST."
  (let ((list-of-numbers))
    (dolist (one-pair my-list)
      (push (car one-pair) list-of-numbers))
    list-of-numbers))

(defun get-largest-number (my-list)
  "Find largest number in MY-LIST."
  (let ((list-of-numbers))
    (setq list-of-numbers (create-list-of-numbers my-list))
    (apply #'max list-of-numbers)))

(defun make-list-matching-words (coded-word-and-original number-and-code-pair)
  "List original words whose code matches code in NUMBER-AND-CODE-PAIR."
  (dolist (word-pair coded-word-and-original)
    ;; test if coded word in CODED-WORD-AND-ORIGINAL matches
    ;; coded word in NUMBER-AND-CODE-PAIR
    (when (string= (nth 0 word-pair) (nth 1 number-and-code-pair))
      ;; insert the original word
            (insert (format "%s " (nth 1 word-pair)))))
        (insert "\n"))
    
(defun count-anagrams ()
  "Count the number of anagrams in file wordlist.txt"
  (let ((coded-word-and-original)
        (just-coded-words)
        (unique-coded-words)
        (count-and-code)
        (number-of-anagrams)
        (largest-number))
    ;; Path below needs to be adapted to individual case
    (find-file "~/Documents/Elisp/wordlist.txt")
    (beginning-of-buffer)
    ;; create list of lists of coded words and originals
    (setq coded-word-and-original (pair-up (split-string (buffer-string) "\n")))
    (find-file "temp-all-coded")
    (erase-buffer)
    (dolist (number-and-code-pair coded-word-and-original)
      ;; make list of just the coded words
      (push (nth 0 number-and-code-pair) just-coded-words))
    (dolist (one-word just-coded-words)
      ;; write list of coded words to buffer for later processing
      (insert (format "%s\n" one-word)))
    ;; create a list of coded words with no repetitions
    (setq unique-coded-words (seq-uniq just-coded-words))
    (dolist (one-code unique-coded-words)
      (find-file "temp-all-coded")
      (beginning-of-buffer)
      ;; count the number of times ONE-CODE appears in buffer
      (setq number-of-anagrams (how-many (format "^%s$" one-code)))
      (if (>= number-of-anagrams 1)  ; eliminate "words" of zero length
          (push (list number-of-anagrams one-code) count-and-code)))
    (find-file "anagram-listing")
    (erase-buffer)
    (setq largest-number (get-largest-number count-and-code))
    (dolist (number-and-code-pair count-and-code)
      ;; when the number in NUMBER-AND-CODE-PAIR = largest number of anagrams
      (when (= (nth 0 number-and-code-pair) largest-number)
        (make-list-matching-words coded-word-and-original number-and-code-pair)))))

An alternate version, shown below, uses a hash table and runs much faster

(defun code-letters (str)
  "Sort STR into alphabetized list of individual letters."
  (sort (split-string str "" t) #'string<))

(defun code-letters-to-string (str)
  "Sort STR alphabetically and combine into one string."
  (apply #'concat (code-letters str)))

(defun add-to-hash (key value table)
  "If KEY exists, add VALUE to list of values.
If KEY does not exist, associate value with KEY."
  (let ((current-values))
    (if (gethash key table)
        (progn 
          (setq current-values (gethash key table))
          (setq current-values (push value current-values))
          (puthash key current-values table))
      (puthash key (list value) table))))

(defun create-list-of-numbers (hash-table)
  "Create a list of numbers from HASH-TABLE."
  (let ((current-number)
        (list-of-numbers))
    (setq list-of-numbers (list))  ; omit?
    (maphash (lambda (key value)
               (setq current-number (car (gethash key hash-table)))
               (push current-number list-of-numbers))
             hash-table)
  list-of-numbers))

(defun find-largest-number-in-hash (hash-table)
  "Find largest number in HASH-TABLE."
  (let ((list-of-numbers))
    (setq list-of-numbers (create-list-of-numbers hash-table))
    (apply #'max list-of-numbers)))

(defun find-longest-lists-of-anagrams (&optional file)
  "Find the set(s) of largest number of anagrams in file wordlist.txt"
  (let ((largest-number)
        (hash-key)
        (dictionary-table (make-hash-table :test 'equal)))
    ;; Path and filename below needs to be adapted to individual case if
    ;; FILE is *not* passed to this function
    (with-temp-buffer
      (insert-file-contents (or file "~/Documents/Elisp/wordlist.txt"))
      (beginning-of-buffer)
      ;; set up hash table with key and word(s)
      ;; key = letters of word, but with letters in
      ;; alphabetical order. Create list word(s) associated
      ;; with key. 
      (dolist (current-word (split-string (buffer-string) "\n"))
        (setq hash-key (code-letters-to-string current-word))
        (add-to-hash hash-key current-word dictionary-table))
      ;; Count number of anagram words
      (maphash (lambda (key value)
                 "Add number of anagram words to VALUE."
                 (add-to-hash key (length (gethash key dictionary-table)) dictionary-table))
               dictionary-table)
      ;; find the size of the largest list(s) of anagrams
      (setq largest-number (find-largest-number-in-hash dictionary-table)))
    ;; set up empty buffer to show results
    (with-current-buffer (pop-to-buffer "anagram-listing")
      (erase-buffer)
      ;; show results
      (maphash (lambda (key value)
                 "Display longest lists of anagrams."
                 (when (= largest-number (car (gethash key dictionary-table)))
                     (mapc
                      (lambda (element)
                        "Insert ELEMENT followed by one space in buffer."
                        (insert (format "%s " element)))
                      (cdr (gethash key dictionary-table)))
                     (insert "\n"))) 
                   dictionary-table))))
Output:
vile veil live levi evil 
neal lena lean lane elan 
trace crate cater carte caret 
lange glean galen angle angel 
regal large lager glare alger 
elba bela bale able abel 

Erlang

The function fetch/2 is used to solve Anagrams/Deranged_anagrams. Please keep backwards compatibility when editing. Or update the other module, too.

-module(anagrams).
-compile(export_all).

play() ->
    {ok, P} = file:read_file('unixdict.txt'),
    D = dict:new(),
    E=fetch(string:tokens(binary_to_list(P), "\n"), D),
    get_value(dict:fetch_keys(E), E).

fetch([H|T], D) ->
    fetch(T, dict:append(lists:sort(H), H, D));
fetch([], D) ->
    D.

get_value(L, D) -> get_value(L,D,1,[]).
get_value([H|T], D, N, L) ->
    Var = dict:fetch(H,D),
    Len = length(Var),
    if
        Len > N ->
            get_value(T, D, Len, [Var]);
        Len == N ->
            get_value(T, D, Len, [Var | L]);
        Len < N ->
            get_value(T, D, N, L)
    end;

get_value([], _, _, L) ->
    L.
Output:
1> anagrams:play().
[["caret","carte","cater","crate","trace"],
 ["elan","lane","lean","lena","neal"],
 ["alger","glare","lager","large","regal"],
 ["angel","angle","galen","glean","lange"],
 ["evil","levi","live","veil","vile"],
 ["abel","able","bale","bela","elba"]]
2>

Euphoria

include sort.e

function compare_keys(sequence a, sequence b)
    return compare(a[1],b[1])
end function

constant fn = open("unixdict.txt","r")
sequence words, anagrams
object word
words = {}
while 1 do
    word = gets(fn)
    if atom(word) then
        exit
    end if
    word = word[1..$-1] -- truncate new-line character
    words = append(words, {sort(word), word})
end while
close(fn)

integer maxlen
maxlen = 0
words = custom_sort(routine_id("compare_keys"), words)
anagrams = {words[1]}
for i = 2 to length(words) do
    if equal(anagrams[$][1],words[i][1]) then
        anagrams[$] = append(anagrams[$], words[i][2])
    elsif length(anagrams[$]) = 2 then
        anagrams[$] = words[i]
    else
        if length(anagrams[$]) > maxlen then
            maxlen = length(anagrams[$])
        end if
        anagrams = append(anagrams, words[i])
    end if
end for
if length(anagrams[$]) = 2 then
    anagrams = anagrams[1..$-1]
end if

for i = 1 to length(anagrams) do
    if length(anagrams[i]) = maxlen then
        for j = 2 to length(anagrams[i]) do
            puts(1,anagrams[i][j])
            puts(1,' ')
        end for
        puts(1,"\n")
    end if
end for
Output:
abel bela bale elba able
crate cater carte caret trace
angle galen glean lange angel
regal lager large alger glare
elan lean neal lane lena
live veil vile levi evil

F#

Read the lines in the dictionary, group by the sorted letters in each word, find the length of the longest sets of anagrams, extract the longest sequences of words sharing the same letters (i.e. anagrams):

let xss = Seq.groupBy (Array.ofSeq >> Array.sort) (System.IO.File.ReadAllLines "unixdict.txt")
Seq.map snd xss |> Seq.filter (Seq.length >> ( = ) (Seq.map (snd >> Seq.length) xss |> Seq.max))

Note that it is necessary to convert the sorted letters in each word from sequences to arrays because the groupBy function uses the default comparison and sequences do not compare structurally (but arrays do in F#).

Takes 0.8s to return:

val it : string seq seq =
  seq
    [seq ["abel"; "able"; "bale"; "bela"; "elba"];
     seq ["alger"; "glare"; "lager"; "large"; "regal"];
     seq ["angel"; "angle"; "galen"; "glean"; "lange"];
     seq ["caret"; "carte"; "cater"; "crate"; "trace"];
     seq ["elan"; "lane"; "lean"; "lena"; "neal"];
     seq ["evil"; "levi"; "live"; "veil"; "vile"]]

Fantom

class Main
{
  // take given word and return a string rearranging characters in order
  static Str toOrderedChars (Str word)
  {
    Str[] chars := [,]
    word.each |Int c| { chars.add (c.toChar) }
    return chars.sort.join("")
  }

  // add given word to anagrams map
  static Void addWord (Str:Str[] anagrams, Str word)
  {
    Str orderedWord := toOrderedChars (word)
    if (anagrams.containsKey (orderedWord))
      anagrams[orderedWord].add (word)
    else
      anagrams[orderedWord] = [word]
  }

  public static Void main ()
  {
    Str:Str[] anagrams := [:] // map Str -> Str[]
    // loop through input file, adding each word to map of anagrams
    File (`unixdict.txt`).eachLine |Str word|
    {
      addWord (anagrams, word)
    }
    // loop through anagrams, keeping the keys with values of largest size
    Str[] largestKeys := [,]
    anagrams.keys.each |Str k|
    {
      if ((largestKeys.size < 1) || (anagrams[k].size == anagrams[largestKeys[0]].size))
        largestKeys.add (k)
      else if (anagrams[k].size > anagrams[largestKeys[0]].size)
        largestKeys = [k]
    }
    largestKeys.each |Str k|
    {
      echo ("Key: $k -> " + anagrams[k].join(", "))
    }
  }
}
Output:
Key: abel -> abel, able, bale, bela, elba
Key: aeln -> elan, lane, lean, lena, neal
Key: eilv -> evil, levi, live, veil, vile
Key: aegln -> angel, angle, galen, glean, lange
Key: aeglr -> alger, glare, lager, large, regal
Key: acert -> caret, carte, cater, crate, trace

Fortran

This program:

!***************************************************************************************
	module anagram_routines
!***************************************************************************************
	implicit none
	
	!the dictionary file:
	integer,parameter :: file_unit = 1000
	character(len=*),parameter :: filename = 'unixdict.txt'
	
	!maximum number of characters in a word:
	integer,parameter :: max_chars = 50
	
	!maximum number of characters in the string displaying the anagram lists:
	integer,parameter :: str_len = 256
	
	type word 
	  character(len=max_chars) :: str = repeat(' ',max_chars)    !the word from the dictionary
	  integer                  :: n = 0                          !length of this word
	  integer                  :: n_anagrams = 0	             !number of anagrams found
	  logical                  :: checked = .false.              !if this one has already been checked
	  character(len=str_len)   :: anagrams = repeat(' ',str_len) !the anagram list for this word
	end type word
	
	!the dictionary structure:
	type(word),dimension(:),allocatable,target :: dict
	
	contains
!***************************************************************************************

	!******************************************************************************
		function count_lines_in_file(fid) result(n_lines)
	!******************************************************************************
		implicit none
	
		integer             :: n_lines
		integer,intent(in)  :: fid		
		character(len=1)    :: tmp
		integer             :: i
		integer             :: ios
		
		!the file is assumed to be open already.
		
		rewind(fid)	  !rewind to beginning of the file
		
		n_lines = 0
		do !read each line until the end of the file.
			read(fid,'(A1)',iostat=ios) tmp
			if (ios < 0) exit      !End of file
			n_lines = n_lines + 1  !row counter
		end do

		rewind(fid)   !rewind to beginning of the file	
				
	!******************************************************************************
		end function count_lines_in_file
	!******************************************************************************
	
	!******************************************************************************
		pure elemental function is_anagram(x,y)
	!******************************************************************************
		implicit none
		character(len=*),intent(in) :: x
		character(len=*),intent(in) :: y
		logical :: is_anagram
	
		character(len=len(x)) :: x_tmp	!a copy of x
		integer :: i,j
		
		!a character not found in any word:
		character(len=1),parameter :: null = achar(0)
			
		!x and y are assumed to be the same size.
		
		x_tmp = x
		do i=1,len_trim(x)
			j = index(x_tmp, y(i:i)) !look for this character in x_tmp
			if (j/=0) then
				x_tmp(j:j) = null  !clear it so it won't be checked again
			else
				is_anagram = .false. !character not found: x,y are not anagrams
				return
			end if
		end do
	
		!if we got to this point, all the characters 
		! were the same, so x,y are anagrams:
		is_anagram = .true.
					
	!******************************************************************************
		end function is_anagram
	!******************************************************************************

!***************************************************************************************
	end module anagram_routines
!***************************************************************************************

!***************************************************************************************
	program main
!***************************************************************************************
	use anagram_routines
	implicit none
	
	integer :: n,i,j,n_max
	type(word),pointer :: x,y
	logical :: first_word
	real :: start, finish
	
	call cpu_time(start)	!..start timer
	
	!open the dictionary and read in all the words:
	open(unit=file_unit,file=filename)      !open the file
	n = count_lines_in_file(file_unit)      !count lines in the file
	allocate(dict(n))                       !allocate dictionary structure
	do i=1,n                                !
		read(file_unit,'(A)') dict(i)%str   !each line is a word in the dictionary
		dict(i)%n = len_trim(dict(i)%str)   !saving length here to avoid trim's below
	end do		
	close(file_unit)                        !close the file
	
	!search dictionary for anagrams:
	do i=1,n
		
		x => dict(i)	!pointer to simplify code
		first_word = .true.	!initialize
		
		do j=i,n
		
			y => dict(j)	!pointer to simplify code
			
			!checks to avoid checking words unnecessarily:
			if (x%checked .or. y%checked) cycle     !both must not have been checked already
			if (x%n/=y%n) cycle                     !must be the same size
			if (x%str(1:x%n)==y%str(1:y%n)) cycle   !can't be the same word
			
			! check to see if x,y are anagrams:
			if (is_anagram(x%str(1:x%n), y%str(1:y%n))) then
				!they are anagrams.
				y%checked = .true. 	!don't check this one again.
				x%n_anagrams = x%n_anagrams + 1
				if (first_word) then
					!this is the first anagram found for this word.
					first_word = .false.
					x%n_anagrams = x%n_anagrams + 1
					x%anagrams = trim(x%anagrams)//x%str(1:x%n)  !add first word to list
				end if
				x%anagrams = trim(x%anagrams)//','//y%str(1:y%n) !add next word to list
			end if
	
		end do
		x%checked = .true.  !don't check this one again
		 
	end do
	
	!anagram groups with the most words:
	write(*,*) ''
	n_max = maxval(dict%n_anagrams)
	do i=1,n
		if (dict(i)%n_anagrams==n_max) write(*,'(A)') trim(dict(i)%anagrams)
	end do
	
	!anagram group containing longest words:
	write(*,*) ''
	n_max = maxval(dict%n, mask=dict%n_anagrams>0)
	do i=1,n
		if (dict(i)%n_anagrams>0 .and. dict(i)%n==n_max) write(*,'(A)') trim(dict(i)%anagrams)
	end do
	write(*,*) ''

	call cpu_time(finish)	!...stop timer
	write(*,'(A,F6.3,A)') '[Runtime = ',finish-start,' sec]'
	write(*,*) ''

!***************************************************************************************
	end program main
!***************************************************************************************
Output:
	abel,able,bale,bela,elba
	alger,glare,lager,large,regal
	angel,angle,galen,glean,lange
	caret,carte,cater,crate,trace
	elan,lane,lean,lena,neal
	evil,levi,live,veil,vile
	 
	conservation,conversation

	[Runtime =  6.897 sec]

FBSL

A little bit of cheating: literatim re-implementation of C solution in FBSL's Dynamic C layer.

#APPTYPE CONSOLE

DIM gtc = GetTickCount()
Anagram()
PRINT "Done in ", (GetTickCount() - gtc) / 1000, " seconds"

PAUSE

DYNC Anagram()
	#include <windows.h>
	#include <stdio.h>
	
	char* sortedWord(const char* word, char* wbuf)
	{
		char* p1, *p2, *endwrd;
		char t;
		int swaps;
		
		strcpy(wbuf, word);
		endwrd = wbuf + strlen(wbuf);
		do {
			swaps = 0;
			p1 = wbuf; p2 = endwrd - 1;
			while (p1 < p2) {
				if (*p2 >* p1) {
					t = *p2; *p2 = *p1; *p1 = t;
					swaps = 1;
				}
				p1++; p2--;
			}
			p1 = wbuf; p2 = p1 + 1;
			while (p2 < endwrd) {
				if (*p2 >* p1) {
					t = *p2; *p2 = *p1; *p1 = t;
					swaps = 1;
				}
				p1++; p2++;
			}
		} while (swaps);
		return wbuf;
	}
	
	static short cxmap[] = {
		0x06, 0x1f, 0x4d, 0x0c, 0x5c, 0x28, 0x5d, 0x0e, 0x09, 0x33, 0x31, 0x56,
		0x52, 0x19, 0x29, 0x53, 0x32, 0x48, 0x35, 0x55, 0x5e, 0x14, 0x27, 0x24,
		0x02, 0x3e, 0x18, 0x4a, 0x3f, 0x4c, 0x45, 0x30, 0x08, 0x2c, 0x1a, 0x03,
		0x0b, 0x0d, 0x4f, 0x07, 0x20, 0x1d, 0x51, 0x3b, 0x11, 0x58, 0x00, 0x49,
		0x15, 0x2d, 0x41, 0x17, 0x5f, 0x39, 0x16, 0x42, 0x37, 0x22, 0x1c, 0x0f,
		0x43, 0x5b, 0x46, 0x4b, 0x0a, 0x26, 0x2e, 0x40, 0x12, 0x21, 0x3c, 0x36,
		0x38, 0x1e, 0x01, 0x1b, 0x05, 0x4e, 0x44, 0x3d, 0x04, 0x10, 0x5a, 0x2a,
		0x23, 0x34, 0x25, 0x2f, 0x2b, 0x50, 0x3a, 0x54, 0x47, 0x59, 0x13, 0x57,
	};
	#define CXMAP_SIZE (sizeof(cxmap) / sizeof(short))
	
	int Str_Hash(const char* key, int ix_max)
	{
		const char* cp;
		short mash;
		int hash = 33501551;
		for (cp = key; *cp; cp++) {
			mash = cxmap[*cp % CXMAP_SIZE];
			hash = (hash >>4) ^ 0x5C5CF5C ^ ((hash << 1) + (mash << 5));
			hash &= 0x3FFFFFFF;
		}
		return hash % ix_max;
	}
	
	typedef struct sDictWord* DictWord;
	struct sDictWord {
		const char* word;
		DictWord next;
	};
	
	typedef struct sHashEntry* HashEntry;
	struct sHashEntry {
		const char* key;
		HashEntry next;
		DictWord words;
		HashEntry link;
		short wordCount;
	};
	
	#define HT_SIZE 8192
	
	HashEntry hashTable[HT_SIZE];
	
	HashEntry mostPerms = NULL;
	
	int buildAnagrams(FILE* fin)
	{
		char buffer[40];
		char bufr2[40];
		char* hkey;
		int hix;
		HashEntry he, *hep;
		DictWord we;
		int maxPC = 2;
		int numWords = 0;
		
		while (fgets(buffer, 40, fin)) {
			for (hkey = buffer; *hkey && (*hkey != '\n'); hkey++);
			*hkey = 0;
			hkey = sortedWord(buffer, bufr2);
			hix = Str_Hash(hkey, HT_SIZE);
			he = hashTable[hix]; hep = &hashTable[hix];
			while (he && strcmp(he->key, hkey)) {
				hep = &he->next;
				he = he->next;
			}
			if (! he) {
				he = (HashEntry)malloc(sizeof(struct sHashEntry));
				he->next = NULL;
				he->key = strdup(hkey);
				he->wordCount = 0;
				he->words = NULL;
				he->link = NULL;
				*hep = he;
			}
			we = (DictWord)malloc(sizeof(struct sDictWord));
			we->word = strdup(buffer);
			we->next = he->words;
			he->words = we;
			he->wordCount++;
			if (maxPC < he->wordCount) {
				maxPC = he->wordCount;
				mostPerms = he;
				he->link = NULL;
			}
			else if (maxPC == he->wordCount) {
				he->link = mostPerms;
				mostPerms = he;
			}
			numWords++;
		}
		printf("%d words in dictionary max ana=%d\n", numWords, maxPC);
		return maxPC;
	}
	
	void main()
	{
		HashEntry he;
		DictWord we;
		FILE* f1;
		
		f1 = fopen("unixdict.txt", "r");
		buildAnagrams(f1);
		fclose(f1);
		
		f1 = fopen("anaout.txt", "w");
		
		for (he = mostPerms; he; he = he->link) {
			fprintf(f1, "%d: ", he->wordCount);
			for (we = he->words; we; we = we->next) {
				fprintf(f1, "%s, ", we->word);
			}
			fprintf(f1, "\n");
		}
		fclose(f1);
	}
END DYNC
Output:

(2.2GHz Intel Core2 Duo)

25104 words in dictionary max ana=5
Done in 0.031 seconds

Press any key to continue...

"anaout.txt" listing:

5: vile, veil, live, levi, evil, 
5: trace, crate, cater, carte, caret, 
5: regal, large, lager, glare, alger, 
5: neal, lena, lean, lane, elan, 
5: lange, glean, galen, angle, angel, 
5: elba, bela, bale, able, abel,

Factor

 "resource:unixdict.txt" utf8 file-lines
 [ [ natural-sort >string ] keep ] { } map>assoc sort-keys
 [ [ first ] compare +eq+ = ] monotonic-split
 dup 0 [ length max ] reduce '[ length _ = ] filter [ values ] map .
{
    { "abel" "able" "bale" "bela" "elba" }
    { "caret" "carte" "cater" "crate" "trace" }
    { "angel" "angle" "galen" "glean" "lange" }
    { "alger" "glare" "lager" "large" "regal" }
    { "elan" "lane" "lean" "lena" "neal" }
    { "evil" "levi" "live" "veil" "vile" }
}

FreeBASIC

' FB 1.05.0 Win64

Type IndexedWord
  As String word
  As Integer index
End Type

' selection sort, quick enough for sorting small number of letters
Sub sortWord(s As String)
  Dim As Integer i, j, m, n = Len(s)
  For i = 0 To n - 2
    m = i
    For j = i + 1 To n - 1
      If s[j] < s[m] Then m = j
    Next j
    If m <> i Then Swap s[i], s[m]
  Next i
End Sub

' selection sort, quick enough for sorting small array of IndexedWord instances by index
Sub sortIndexedWord(iw() As IndexedWord)
  Dim As Integer i, j, m, n = UBound(iw)
  For i = 1 To n - 1
    m = i
    For j = i + 1 To n
      If iw(j).index < iw(m).index Then m = j
    Next j
    If m <> i Then Swap iw(i), iw(m)
  Next i
End Sub

' quicksort for sorting whole dictionary of IndexedWord instances by sorted word
Sub quicksort(a() As IndexedWord, first As Integer, last As Integer)
  Dim As Integer length = last - first + 1
  If length < 2 Then Return 
  Dim pivot As String = a(first + length\ 2).word
  Dim lft As Integer = first 
  Dim rgt As Integer = last 
  While lft <= rgt
    While a(lft).word < pivot
      lft +=1
    Wend
    While a(rgt).word > pivot
      rgt -= 1
    Wend
    If lft <= rgt Then
       Swap a(lft), a(rgt)
       lft += 1
       rgt -= 1
    End If 
  Wend
  quicksort(a(), first, rgt)
  quicksort(a(), lft, last)
End Sub

Dim t As Double = timer
Dim As String w()  '' array to hold actual words
Open "undict.txt" For Input As #1
Dim count As Integer = 0
While Not Eof(1)
  count +=1
  Redim Preserve w(1 To count)
  Line Input #1, w(count)
Wend
Close #1

Dim As IndexedWord iw(1 To count) '' array to hold sorted words and their index into w() 
Dim word As String
For i As Integer = 1 To count
  word = w(i)
  sortWord(word)
  iw(i).word = word
  iw(i).index = i 
Next
quickSort iw(), 1, count  '' sort the IndexedWord array by sorted word

Dim As Integer startIndex = 1, length = 1, maxLength = 1, ub = 1
Dim As Integer maxIndex(1 To ub)
maxIndex(ub) = 1
word = iw(1).word

For i As Integer = 2 To count
  If word = iw(i).word Then
    length += 1 
  Else
    If length > maxLength Then
      maxLength = length
      Erase maxIndex
      ub = 1
      Redim maxIndex(1 To ub)
      maxIndex(ub) = startIndex
    ElseIf length = maxLength Then
      ub += 1
      Redim Preserve maxIndex(1 To ub)
      maxIndex(ub) = startIndex
    End If
    startIndex = i
    length = 1
    word = iw(i).word
  End If
Next

If length > maxLength Then
  maxLength = length
  Erase maxIndex
  Redim maxIndex(1 To 1)
  maxIndex(1) = startIndex
ElseIf length = maxLength Then
  ub += 1
  Redim Preserve maxIndex(1 To ub)
  maxIndex(ub) = startIndex
End If

Print Str(count); " words in the dictionary"
Print "The anagram set(s) with the greatest number of words (namely"; maxLength; ") is:"
Print
Dim iws(1 To maxLength) As IndexedWord  '' array to hold each anagram set
For i As Integer = 1 To UBound(maxIndex)
  For j As Integer = maxIndex(i) To maxIndex(i) + maxLength - 1
    iws(j - maxIndex(i) + 1) = iw(j)
  Next j
  sortIndexedWord iws()  '' sort anagram set before displaying it
  For j As Integer = 1 To maxLength  
    Print w(iws(j).index); " ";
  Next j
  Print
Next i

Print
Print "Took "; 
Print Using "#.###"; timer - t; 
Print " seconds on i3 @ 2.13 GHz"

Print
Print "Press any key to quit"
Sleep
Output:
25104 words in the dictionary
The anagram set(s) with the greatest number of words (namely 5) is:

abel able bale bela elba
caret carte cater crate trace
angel angle galen glean lange
alger glare lager large regal
elan lane lean lena neal
evil levi live veil vile

Took 0.103 seconds on i3 @ 2.13 GHz

Frink

d = new dict
for w = lines["http://wiki.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt"]
{
   sorted = sort[charList[w]]
   d.addToList[sorted, w]
}

most = sort[toArray[d], {|a,b| length[b@1] <=> length[a@1]}]
longest = length[most@0@1]

i = 0
while length[most@i@1] == longest
{
   println[most@i@1]
   i = i + 1
}

FutureBasic

Applications in the latest versions of Macintosh OS X 10.x are sandboxed and require setting special permissions to link to internet files. For illustration purposes here, this code uses the internal Unix dictionary file available in all versions of OS X.

include "NSLog.incl"

local fn Dictionary as CFArrayRef
  CFURLRef    url    = fn URLFileURLWithPath( @"/usr/share/dict/words" )
  CFStringRef string = fn StringWithContentsOfURL( url, NSUTF8StringEncoding, NULL )
end fn = fn StringComponentsSeparatedByString( string, @"\n" )

local fn IsAnagram( wrd1 as CFStringRef, wrd2 as CFStringRef ) as BOOL
  NSUInteger i
  BOOL       result = NO
  
  if ( len(wrd1) != len(wrd2) ) then exit fn
  if ( fn StringCompare( wrd1, wrd2 ) == NSOrderedSame ) then exit fn
  CFMutableArrayRef mutArr1 = fn MutableArrayWithCapacity(0) : CFMutableArrayRef mutArr2 = fn MutableArrayWithCapacity(0)
  for i = 0 to len(wrd1) - 1
    MutableArrayAddObject( mutArr1, fn StringWithFormat( @"%C", fn StringCharacterAtIndex( wrd1, i ) ) )
    MutableArrayAddObject( mutArr2, fn StringWithFormat( @"%C", fn StringCharacterAtIndex( wrd2, i ) ) )
  next
  SortDescriptorRef sd = fn SortDescriptorWithKeyAndSelector( NULL, YES, @"caseInsensitiveCompare:" )
  if ( fn ArrayIsEqual( fn ArraySortedArrayUsingDescriptors( mutArr1, @[sd] ), fn ArraySortedArrayUsingDescriptors( mutArr2, @[sd] ) ) ) then result = YES
end fn = result

void local fn FindAnagramsInDictionary( wd as CFStringRef, dict as CFArrayRef )
  CFStringRef string, temp
  
  CFMutableArrayRef words = fn MutableArrayWithCapacity(0)
  for temp in dict
    if ( fn IsAnagram( lcase( wd ), temp ) ) then MutableArrayAddObject( words, temp )
  next
  string = fn ArrayComponentsJoinedByString( words, @", " )
  NSLogSetTextColor( fn ColorText )       : NSLog( @"Anagrams for %@:", lcase(wd) )
  NSLogSetTextColor( fn ColorSystemBlue ) : NSLog(@"%@\n",string)
end fn

void local fn DoIt
  CFArrayRef dictionary = fn Dictionary
  
  dispatchglobal
    CFStringRef string
    CFArrayRef words = @[@"bade",@"abet",@"beast",@"tuba",@"mace",@"scare",@"marine",@"antler",@"spare",@"leading",@"alerted",@"allergy",@"research",@"hustle",@"oriental",@"creationism",@"resistance",@"mountaineer"]
    for string in words
      fn FindAnagramsInDictionary( string, dictionary )
    next
  dispatchend
end fn

fn DoIt

HandleEvents

Output:

Anagrams for BADE:         abed     bade     bead     
Anagrams for ABET:         abet     bate     beat     beta     
Anagrams for BEAST:        baste    beast    tabes    
Anagrams for TUBA:         abut     tabu     tuba     
Anagrams for MACE:         acme     came     mace     
Anagrams for SCARE:        carse    caser    ceras    scare    scrae    
Anagrams for MARINE:       marine   remain   
Anagrams for ANTLER:       altern   antler   learnt   rental   ternal   
Anagrams for SPARE:        asper    parse    prase    spaer    spare    spear    
Anagrams for LEADING:      adeling  dealing  leading  
Anagrams for ALERTED:      delater  related  treadle  
Anagrams for ALLERGY:      allergy  gallery  largely  regally  
Anagrams for RESEARCH:     rechaser research searcher 
Anagrams for HUSTLE:       hustle   sleuth   
Anagrams for ORIENTAL:     oriental relation 

Anagrams for CREATIONISM:  anisometric creationism miscreation ramisection reactionism 
Anagrams for RESISTANCE:   resistance  senatrices  
Anagrams for MOUNTAINEER:  enumeration mountaineer 

This version fulfils the task description.

include "NSLog.incl"

#plist NSAppTransportSecurity @{NSAllowsArbitraryLoads:YES}

local fn Dictionary as CFArrayRef
  CFURLRef url = fn URLWithString( @"http://wiki.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt" )
  CFStringRef string = fn StringWithContentsOfURL( url, NSUTF8StringEncoding, NULL )
end fn = fn StringComponentsSeparatedByCharactersInSet( string, fn CharacterSetNewlineSet )

local fn TestIndexes( array as CFArrayRef, obj as CFTypeRef, index as NSUInteger, stp as ^BOOL, userData as ptr ) as BOOL
end fn = fn StringIsEqual( obj, userData )

void local fn IndexSetEnumerator( set as IndexSetRef, index as NSUInteger, stp as ^BOOL, userData as ptr )
  NSLog(@"\t%@\b",fn ArrayObjectAtIndex( userData, index ))
end fn

void local fn DoIt
  CFArrayRef             words
  CFMutableArrayRef      sortedWords, letters
  CFStringRef            string, sortedString
  IndexSetRef            indexes
  long                   i, j, count, indexCount, maxCount = 0, length
  CFMutableDictionaryRef anagrams
  CFTimeInterval         ti
  
  ti = fn CACurrentMediaTime
  
  NSLog(@"Searching...")
  
  // create another word list with sorted letters
  words = fn Dictionary
  count = len(words)
  sortedWords = fn MutableArrayWithCapacity(count)
  for string in words
    length = len(string)
    letters = fn MutableArrayWithCapacity(length)
    for i = 0 to length - 1
      MutableArrayAddObject( letters, mid(string,i,1) )
    next
    MutableArraySortUsingSelector( letters, @"compare:" )
    sortedString = fn ArrayComponentsJoinedByString( letters, @"" )
    MutableArrayAddObject( sortedWords, sortedString )
  next
  
  // search for identical sorted words
  anagrams = fn MutableDictionaryWithCapacity(0)
  for i = 0 to count - 2
    j = i + 1
    indexes = fn ArrayIndexesOfObjectsAtIndexesPassingTest( sortedWords, fn IndexSetWithIndexesInRange( fn CFRangeMake(j,count-j) ), NSEnumerationConcurrent, @fn TestIndexes, (ptr)sortedWords[i] )
    indexCount = len(indexes)
    if ( indexCount > maxCount )
      maxCount = indexCount
      MutableDictionaryRemoveAllObjects( anagrams )
    end if
    if ( indexCount == maxCount )
      MutableDictionarySetValueForKey( anagrams, indexes, words[i] )
    end if
  next
  
  // show results
  NSLogClear
  for string in anagrams
    NSLog(@"%@\b",string)
    indexes = anagrams[string]
    IndexSetEnumerateIndexes( indexes, @fn IndexSetEnumerator, (ptr)words )
    NSLog(@"")
  next
  
  NSLog(@"\nCalculated in %0.6fs",fn CACurrentMediaTime - ti)
end fn

dispatchglobal
  fn DoIt
dispatchend

HandleEvents
Output:
alger	glare	lager	large	regal
caret	carte	cater	crate	trace
elan	lane	lean	lena	neal
abel	able	bale	bela	elba
evil	levi	live	veil	vile
angel	angle	galen	glean	lange

Calculated in 2.409008s

GAP

Anagrams := function(name)
  local f, p, L, line, word, words, swords, res, cur, r;
  words := [ ];
  swords := [ ];
  f := InputTextFile(name);
  while true do
    line := ReadLine(f);
    if line = fail then
      break;
    else
      word := Chomp(line);
      Add(words, word);
      Add(swords, SortedList(word));
    fi;
  od;
  CloseStream(f);
  p := SortingPerm(swords);
  L := Permuted(words, p);
  r := "";
  cur := [ ];
  res := [ ];
  for word in L do
    if SortedList(word) = r then
      Add(cur, word);
    else
      if Length(cur) > 0 then
        Add(res, cur);
      fi;
      r := SortedList(word);
      cur := [ word ];
    fi;
  od;
  if Length(cur) > 0 then
    Add(res, cur);
  fi;
  return Filtered(res, v -> Length(v) > 1);
end;


ana := Anagrams("my/gap/unixdict.txt");;

# What is the longest anagram sequence ?
Maximum(List(ana, Length));
# 5

# Which are they ?
Filtered(ana, v -> Length(v) = 5);
# [ [ "abel", "able", "bale", "bela", "elba" ],
#   [ "caret", "carte", "cater", "crate", "trace" ],
#   [ "angel", "angle", "galen", "glean", "lange" ],
#   [ "alger", "glare", "lager", "large", "regal" ],
#   [ "elan", "lane", "lean", "lena", "neal" ],
#   [ "evil", "levi", "live", "veil", "vile" ] ]

Go

package main

import (
    "bytes"
    "fmt"
    "io/ioutil"
    "net/http"
    "sort"
)

func main() {
    r, err := http.Get("http://wiki.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt")
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println(err)
        return
    }
    b, err := ioutil.ReadAll(r.Body)
    r.Body.Close()
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println(err)
        return
    }
    var ma int
    var bs byteSlice
    m := make(map[string][][]byte)
    for _, word := range bytes.Fields(b) {
        bs = append(bs[:0], byteSlice(word)...)
        sort.Sort(bs)
        k := string(bs)
        a := append(m[k], word)
        if len(a) > ma {
            ma = len(a)
        }
        m[k] = a
    }
    for _, a := range m {
        if len(a) == ma {
            fmt.Printf("%s\n", a)
        }
    }
}

type byteSlice []byte

func (b byteSlice) Len() int           { return len(b) }
func (b byteSlice) Swap(i, j int)      { b[i], b[j] = b[j], b[i] }
func (b byteSlice) Less(i, j int) bool { return b[i] < b[j] }
Output:
[angel angle galen glean lange]
[elan lane lean lena neal]
[evil levi live veil vile]
[abel able bale bela elba]
[caret carte cater crate trace]
[alger glare lager large regal]

Groovy

This program:

def words = new URL('http://wiki.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt').text.readLines()
def groups = words.groupBy{ it.toList().sort() }
def bigGroupSize = groups.collect{ it.value.size() }.max()
def isBigAnagram = { it.value.size() == bigGroupSize }
println groups.findAll(isBigAnagram).collect{ it.value }.collect{ it.join(' ') }.join('\n')
Output:
abel able bale bela elba
alger glare lager large regal
angel angle galen glean lange
caret carte cater crate trace
elan lane lean lena neal
evil levi live veil vile

Haskell

import Data.List

groupon f x y = f x == f y

main = do
  f <- readFile "./../Puzzels/Rosetta/unixdict.txt"
  let  words = lines f
       wix = groupBy (groupon fst) . sort $ zip (map sort words) words
       mxl = maximum $ map length wix
  mapM_ (print . map snd) . filter ((==mxl).length) $ wix
Output:
*Main> main
["abel","able","bale","bela","elba"]
["caret","carte","cater","crate","trace"]
["angel","angle","galen","glean","lange"]
["alger","glare","lager","large","regal"]
["elan","lane","lean","lena","neal"]
["evil","levi","live","veil","vile"]

and we can noticeably speed up the second stage sorting and grouping by packing the String lists of Chars to the Text type:

import Data.List (groupBy, maximumBy, sort)
import Data.Ord (comparing)
import Data.Function (on)
import Data.Text (pack)

main :: IO ()
main = do
  f <- readFile "./unixdict.txt"
  let ws = groupBy (on (==) fst) (sort (((,) =<< pack . sort) <$> lines f))
  mapM_
    (print . fmap snd)
    (filter ((length (maximumBy (comparing length) ws) ==) . length) ws)
Output:
["abel","able","bale","bela","elba"]
["caret","carte","cater","crate","trace"]
["angel","angle","galen","glean","lange"]
["alger","glare","lager","large","regal"]
["elan","lane","lean","lena","neal"]
["evil","levi","live","veil","vile"]

Icon and Unicon

procedure main(args)
    every writeSet(!getLongestAnagramSets())
end

procedure getLongestAnagramSets()
    wordSets := table()
    longestWSet := 0
    longSets := set()

    every word := !&input do {
        wChars := csort(word)
        /wordSets[wChars] := set()
        insert(wordSets[wChars], word)

        if 1 < *wordSets[wChars} == longestWSet then
            insert(longSets, wordSets[wChars])
        if 1 < *wordSets[wChars} > longestWSet then {
            longestWSet := *wordSets[wChars}
            longSets := set([wordSets[wChars]])
            }
        }

    return longSets
end

procedure writeSet(words)
    every writes("\t"|!words," ")
    write()
end

procedure csort(w)
    every (s := "") ||:= (find(c := !cset(w),w),c)
    return s
end

Sample run:

->an <unixdict.txt
         abel bale bela able elba 
         lean neal elan lane lena 
         angle galen lange angel glean 
         alger glare lager large regal 
         veil evil levi live vile 
         caret cater crate carte trace
->

J

If the unixdict file has been retrieved and saved in the current directory (for example, using wget):

   (#~ a: ~: {:"1) (]/.~ /:~&>) <;._2 ] 1!:1 <'unixdict.txt'
+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
|abel |able |bale |bela |elba |
+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
|alger|glare|lager|large|regal|
+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
|angel|angle|galen|glean|lange|
+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
|caret|carte|cater|crate|trace|
+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
|elan |lane |lean |lena |neal |
+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
|evil |levi |live |veil |vile |
+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+

Explanation:

   <;._2 ] 1!:1 <'unixdict.txt'

This reads in the dictionary and produces a list of boxes. Each box contains one line (one word) from the dictionary.

   (]/.~ /:~&>)

This groups the words into rows where anagram equivalents appear in the same row. In other words, creates a copy of the original list where the characters contained in each box have been sorted. Then it organizes the contents of the original list in rows, with each new row keyed by the values in the new list.

   (#~ a: ~: {:"1)

This selects rows whose last element is not an empty box.
(In the previous step we created an array of rows of boxes. The short rows were automatically padded with empty boxes so that all rows would be the same length.)

Java

The key to this algorithm is the sorting of the characters in each word from the dictionary. The line Arrays.sort(chars); sorts all of the letters in the word in ascending order using a built-in quicksort, so all of the words in the first group in the result end up under the key "aegln" in the anagrams map.

Works with: Java version 1.5+
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
 
public class WordsOfEqChars {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        URL url = new URL("http://wiki.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt");
        InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(url.openStream());
        BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(isr);

        Map<String, Collection<String>> anagrams = new HashMap<String, Collection<String>>();
        String word;
        int count = 0;
        while ((word = reader.readLine()) != null) {
            char[] chars = word.toCharArray();
            Arrays.sort(chars);
            String key = new String(chars);
            if (!anagrams.containsKey(key))
                anagrams.put(key, new ArrayList<String>());
            anagrams.get(key).add(word);
            count = Math.max(count, anagrams.get(key).size());
        }

        reader.close();

        for (Collection<String> ana : anagrams.values())
            if (ana.size() >= count)
                System.out.println(ana);
    }   
}
Works with: Java version 1.8+
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.util.concurrent.*;
import java.util.function.*;

public interface Anagram {
  public static <AUTOCLOSEABLE extends AutoCloseable, OUTPUT> Supplier<OUTPUT> tryWithResources(Callable<AUTOCLOSEABLE> callable, Function<AUTOCLOSEABLE, Supplier<OUTPUT>> function, Supplier<OUTPUT> defaultSupplier) {
    return () -> {
      try (AUTOCLOSEABLE autoCloseable = callable.call()) {
        return function.apply(autoCloseable).get();
      } catch (Throwable throwable) {
        return defaultSupplier.get();
      }
    };
  }

  public static <INPUT, OUTPUT> Function<INPUT, OUTPUT> function(Supplier<OUTPUT> supplier) {
    return i -> supplier.get();
  }

  public static void main(String... args) {
    Map<String, Collection<String>> anagrams = new ConcurrentSkipListMap<>();
    int count = tryWithResources(
      () -> new BufferedReader(
        new InputStreamReader(
          new URL(
            "http://wiki.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt"
          ).openStream()
        )
      ),
      reader -> () -> reader.lines()
        .parallel()
        .mapToInt(word -> {
          char[] chars = word.toCharArray();
          Arrays.parallelSort(chars);
          String key = Arrays.toString(chars);
          Collection<String> collection = anagrams.computeIfAbsent(
            key, function(ArrayList::new)
          );
          collection.add(word);
          return collection.size();
        })
        .max()
        .orElse(0),
      () -> 0
    ).get();
    anagrams.values().stream()
      .filter(ana -> ana.size() >= count)
      .forEach(System.out::println)
    ;
  }
}
Output:
[angel, angle, galen, glean, lange]
[elan, lane, lean, lena, neal]
[alger, glare, lager, large, regal]
[abel, able, bale, bela, elba]
[evil, levi, live, veil, vile]
[caret, carte, cater, crate, trace]

JavaScript

ES5

Works with: Node.js
var fs = require('fs');
var words = fs.readFileSync('unixdict.txt', 'UTF-8').split('\n');

var i, item, max = 0,
    anagrams = {};
 
for (i = 0; i < words.length; i += 1) {
  var key = words[i].split('').sort().join('');
  if (!anagrams.hasOwnProperty(key)) {//check if property exists on current obj only
      anagrams[key] = [];
  }
  var count = anagrams[key].push(words[i]); //push returns new array length
  max = Math.max(count, max);
}

//note, this returns all arrays that match the maximum length
for (item in anagrams) {
  if (anagrams.hasOwnProperty(item)) {//check if property exists on current obj only
    if (anagrams[item].length === max) {
        console.log(anagrams[item].join(' '));
    }
  }
}
Output:
[ 'abel', 'able', 'bale', 'bela', 'elba' ]
[ 'alger', 'glare', 'lager', 'large', 'regal' ]
[ 'angel', 'angle', 'galen', 'glean', 'lange' ]
[ 'caret', 'carte', 'cater', 'crate', 'trace' ]
[ 'elan', 'lane', 'lean', 'lena', 'neal' ]
[ 'evil', 'levi', 'live', 'veil', 'vile' ]

Alternative using reduce:

var fs = require('fs');
var dictionary = fs.readFileSync('unixdict.txt', 'UTF-8').split('\n');

//group anagrams
var sortedDict = dictionary.reduce(function (acc, word) {
  var sortedLetters = word.split('').sort().join('');
  if (acc[sortedLetters] === undefined) { acc[sortedLetters] = []; }
  acc[sortedLetters].push(word);
  return acc;
}, {});

//sort list by frequency
var keysSortedByFrequency = Object.keys(sortedDict).sort(function (keyA, keyB) {
  if (sortedDict[keyA].length < sortedDict[keyB].length) { return 1; }
  if (sortedDict[keyA].length > sortedDict[keyB].length) { return -1; }
  return 0;
});

//print first 10 anagrams by frequency
keysSortedByFrequency.slice(0, 10).forEach(function (key) {
  console.log(sortedDict[key].join(' '));
});


ES6

Using JavaScript for Automation (A JavaScriptCore interpreter on macOS with an Automation library).

(() => {
    'use strict';

    // largestAnagramGroups :: FilePath -> Either String [[String]]
    const largestAnagramGroups = fp =>
        either(msg => msg)(strLexicon => {
            const
                groups = sortBy(flip(comparing(length)))(
                    groupBy(on(eq)(fst))(
                        sortBy(comparing(fst))(
                            strLexicon
                            .split(/[\r\n]/)
                            .map(w => [w.split('').sort().join(''), w])
                        )
                    )
                ),
                maxSize = groups[0].length;
            return map(map(snd))(
                takeWhile(x => maxSize === x.length)(
                    groups
                )
            )
        })(readFileLR(fp));

    // ------------------------TEST------------------------
    const main = () =>
        console.log(JSON.stringify(
            largestAnagramGroups('unixdict.txt'),
            null, 2
        ))


    // -----------------GENERIC FUNCTIONS------------------

    // Left :: a -> Either a b
    const Left = x => ({
        type: 'Either',
        Left: x
    });

    // Right :: b -> Either a b
    const Right = x => ({
        type: 'Either',
        Right: x
    });

    // Tuple (,) :: a -> b -> (a, b)
    const Tuple = a =>
        b => ({
            type: 'Tuple',
            '0': a,
            '1': b,
            length: 2
        });

    // comparing :: (a -> b) -> (a -> a -> Ordering)
    const comparing = f =>
        x => y => {
            const
                a = f(x),
                b = f(y);
            return a < b ? -1 : (a > b ? 1 : 0);
        };

    // either :: (a -> c) -> (b -> c) -> Either a b -> c
    const either = fl =>
        fr => e => 'Either' === e.type ? (
            undefined !== e.Left ? (
                fl(e.Left)
            ) : fr(e.Right)
        ) : undefined;

    // eq (==) :: Eq a => a -> a -> Bool
    const eq = a =>
        // True when a and b are equivalent.
        b => a === b

    // flip :: (a -> b -> c) -> b -> a -> c
    const flip = f =>
        1 < f.length ? (
            (a, b) => f(b, a)
        ) : (x => y => f(y)(x));

    // fst :: (a, b) -> a
    const fst = tpl =>
        // First member of a pair.
        tpl[0];

    // groupBy :: (a -> a -> Bool) -> [a] -> [[a]]
    const groupBy = fEq => xs =>
        // // Typical usage: groupBy(on(eq)(f), xs)
        0 < xs.length ? (() => {
            const
                tpl = xs.slice(1).reduce(
                    (gw, x) => {
                        const
                            gps = gw[0],
                            wkg = gw[1];
                        return fEq(wkg[0])(x) ? (
                            Tuple(gps)(wkg.concat([x]))
                        ) : Tuple(gps.concat([wkg]))([x]);
                    },
                    Tuple([])([xs[0]])
                );
            return tpl[0].concat([tpl[1]])
        })() : [];

    // length :: [a] -> Int
    const length = xs => xs.length

    // map :: (a -> b) -> [a] -> [b]
    const map = f =>
        // The list obtained by applying f
        // to each element of xs.
        // (The image of xs under f).
        xs => xs.map(f);

    // on :: (b -> b -> c) -> (a -> b) -> a -> a -> c
    const on = f =>
        // e.g. sortBy(on(compare,length), xs)
        g => a => b => f(g(a))(g(b));

    // readFileLR :: FilePath -> Either String IO String
    const readFileLR = fp => {
        const
            e = $(),
            ns = $.NSString
            .stringWithContentsOfFileEncodingError(
                $(fp).stringByStandardizingPath,
                $.NSUTF8StringEncoding,
                e
            );
        return ns.isNil() ? (
            Left(ObjC.unwrap(e.localizedDescription))
        ) : Right(ObjC.unwrap(ns));
    };

    // snd :: (a, b) -> b
    const snd = tpl => tpl[1];

    // sortBy :: (a -> a -> Ordering) -> [a] -> [a]
    const sortBy = f =>
        xs => xs.slice()
        .sort((a, b) => f(a)(b));

    // takeWhile :: (a -> Bool) -> [a] -> [a]
    // takeWhile :: (Char -> Bool) -> String -> String
    const takeWhile = p =>
        xs => {
            const lng = xs.length;
            return 0 < lng ? xs.slice(
                0,
                until(i => lng === i || !p(xs[i]))(
                    i => 1 + i
                )(0)
            ) : [];
        };

    // until :: (a -> Bool) -> (a -> a) -> a -> a
    const until = p => f => x => {
        let v = x;
        while (!p(v)) v = f(v);
        return v;
    };

    // MAIN ---
    return main();
})();
Output:
[
  [
    "abel",
    "able",
    "bale",
    "bela",
    "elba"
  ],
  [
    "caret",
    "carte",
    "cater",
    "crate",
    "trace"
  ],
  [
    "angel",
    "angle",
    "galen",
    "glean",
    "lange"
  ],
  [
    "alger",
    "glare",
    "lager",
    "large",
    "regal"
  ],
  [
    "elan",
    "lane",
    "lean",
    "lena",
    "neal"
  ],
  [
    "evil",
    "levi",
    "live",
    "veil",
    "vile"
  ]
]

jq

def anagrams:
  (reduce .[] as $word (
      {table: {}, max: 0};   # state
      ($word | explode | sort | implode) as $hash
      | .table[$hash] += [ $word ]
      | .max   = ([ .max, ( .table[$hash] | length) ] | max ) ))
  | .max as $max
  | .table | .[] | select(length == $max) ;

# The task:
split("\n") | anagrams
Output:
$ jq -M -s -c -R -f anagrams.jq unixdict.txt
["abel","able","bale","bela","elba"]
["alger","glare","lager","large","regal"]
["angel","angle","galen","glean","lange"]
["caret","carte","cater","crate","trace"]
["elan","lane","lean","lena","neal"]
["evil","levi","live","veil","vile"]

Jsish

From Javascript, nodejs entry.

/* Anagrams, in Jsish */
var datafile = 'unixdict.txt';
if (console.args[0] == '-more' && Interp.conf('maxArrayList') > 500000)
    datafile = '/usr/share/dict/words';

var words = File.read(datafile).split('\n');
puts(words.length, 'words');
 
var i, item, max = 0, anagrams = {};
 
for (i = 0; i < words.length; i += 1) {
    var key = words[i].split('').sort().join('');
    if (!anagrams.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
        anagrams[key] = [];
    }
    var count = anagrams[key].push(words[i]);
    max = Math.max(count, max);
}

// display all arrays that match the maximum length
for (item in anagrams) {
    if (anagrams.hasOwnProperty(item)) {
        if (anagrams[item].length === max) {
            puts(anagrams[item].join(' '));
        }
    }
}

/*
=!EXPECTSTART!=
25108 words
abel able bale bela elba
caret carte cater crate trace
angel angle galen glean lange
alger glare lager large regal
elan lane lean lena neal
evil levi live veil vile
=!EXPECTEND!=
*/
Output:
prompt$ jsish -u anagrams.jsi
[PASS] anagrams.jsi

To update the script to pass with a site local words file, just jsish -u -update true anagrams.jsi.

Julia

Works with: Julia version 1.6
url = "http://wiki.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt"
wordlist = open(readlines, download(url))

wsort(word::AbstractString) = join(sort(collect(word)))

function anagram(wordlist::Vector{<:AbstractString})
    dict = Dict{String, Set{String}}()
    for word in wordlist
        sorted = wsort(word)
        push!(get!(dict, sorted, Set{String}()), word)
    end
    wcnt = maximum(length, values(dict))
    return collect(Iterators.filter((y) -> length(y) == wcnt, values(dict)))
end

println.(anagram(wordlist))
Output:
Set(String["live", "vile", "veil", "evil", "levi"])
Set(String["abel", "able", "bale", "bela", "elba"])
Set(String["crate", "cater", "carte", "trace", "caret"])
Set(String["galen", "angel", "lange", "angle", "glean"])
Set(String["lager", "regal", "glare", "large", "alger"])
Set(String["neal", "elan", "lena", "lane", "lean"])

K

{x@&a=|/a:#:'x}{x g@&1<#:'g:={x@<x}'x}0::`unixdict.txt

Kotlin

Translation of: Java
import java.io.BufferedReader
import java.io.InputStreamReader
import java.net.URL
import kotlin.math.max

fun main() {
    val url = URL("http://wiki.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt")
    val isr = InputStreamReader(url.openStream())
    val reader = BufferedReader(isr)
    val anagrams = mutableMapOf<String, MutableList<String>>()
    var count = 0
    var word = reader.readLine()
    while (word != null) {
        val chars = word.toCharArray()
        chars.sort()
        val key = chars.joinToString("")
        if (!anagrams.containsKey(key)) anagrams[key] = mutableListOf()
        anagrams[key]?.add(word)
        count = max(count, anagrams[key]?.size ?: 0)
        word = reader.readLine()
    }
    reader.close()
    anagrams.values
        .filter { it.size == count }
        .forEach { println(it) }
}
Output:
[abel, able, bale, bela, elba]
[alger, glare, lager, large, regal]
[angel, angle, galen, glean, lange]
[caret, carte, cater, crate, trace]
[elan, lane, lean, lena, neal]
[evil, levi, live, veil, vile]

Lasso

local(
	anagrams	= map,
	words		= include_url('http://wiki.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt')->split('\n'),
	key,
	max		= 0,
	findings	= array
)

with word in #words do {
	#key = #word -> split('') -> sort& -> join('')
	if(not(#anagrams >> #key)) => {
		#anagrams -> insert(#key = array)
	}
	#anagrams -> find(#key) -> insert(#word)
}
with ana in #anagrams
let ana_size = #ana -> size
do {
	if(#ana_size > #max) => {
		#findings = array(#ana -> join(', '))
		#max = #ana_size
	else(#ana_size == #max)
		#findings -> insert(#ana -> join(', '))
	}
}

#findings -> join('<br />\n')
Output:
abel, able, bale, bela, elba
caret, carte, cater, crate, trace
angel, angle, galen, glean, lange
alger, glare, lager, large, regal
elan, lane, lean, lena, neal
evil, levi, live, veil, vile

Liberty BASIC

' count the word list
open "unixdict.txt" for input as #1
while not(eof(#1))
    line input #1,null$
    numWords=numWords+1
wend
close #1

'import to an array appending sorted letter set
open "unixdict.txt" for input as #1
dim wordList$(numWords,3)
dim chrSort$(45)
wordNum=1
while wordNum<numWords
    line input #1,actualWord$
    wordList$(wordNum,1)=actualWord$
    wordList$(wordNum,2)=sorted$(actualWord$)
    wordNum=wordNum+1
wend

'sort on letter set
sort wordList$(),1,numWords,2

'count and store number of anagrams found
wordNum=1
startPosition=wordNum
numAnagrams=0
currentChrSet$=wordList$(wordNum,2)
while wordNum < numWords
    while currentChrSet$=wordList$(wordNum,2)
        numAnagrams=numAnagrams+1
        wordNum=wordNum+1
    wend
    for n= startPosition to startPosition+numAnagrams
        wordList$(n,3)=right$("0000"+str$(numAnagrams),4)+wordList$(n,2)
    next
    startPosition=wordNum
    numAnagrams=0
    currentChrSet$=wordList$(wordNum,2)
wend

'sort on number of anagrams+letter set
sort wordList$(),numWords,1,3

'display the top anagram sets found
wordNum=1
while wordNum<150
    currentChrSet$=wordList$(wordNum,2)
    print "Anagram set";
    while currentChrSet$=wordList$(wordNum,2)
        print " : ";wordList$(wordNum,1);
        wordNum=wordNum+1
    wend
    print
    currentChrSet$=wordList$(wordNum,2)
wend

close #1
end

function sorted$(w$)
    nchr=len(w$)
    for chr = 1 to nchr
        chrSort$(chr)=mid$(w$,chr,1)
    next
    sort chrSort$(),1,nchr
    sorted$=""
    for chr = 1 to nchr
        sorted$=sorted$+chrSort$(chr)
    next
end function

LiveCode

LiveCode could definitely use a sort characters command. As it is this code converts the letters into items and then sorts that. I wrote a merge sort for characters, but the conversion to items, built-in-sort, conversion back to string is about 10% faster, and certainly easier to write.

on mouseUp
   put mostCommonAnagrams(url "http://wiki.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt")
end mouseUp

function mostCommonAnagrams X
   put 0 into maxCount
   repeat for each word W in X
      get sortChars(W)
      put W & comma after A[it]
      add 1 to C[it]
      if C[it] >= maxCount then
         if C[it] > maxCount then
            put C[it] into maxCount
            put char 1 to -2 of A[it] into winnerList
         else
            put cr & char 1 to -2 of A[it] after winnerList
         end if
      end if
   end repeat
   return winnerList
end mostCommonAnagrams

function sortChars X
   get charsToItems(X)
   sort items of it
   return itemsToChars(it)
end sortChars

function charsToItems X
   repeat for each char C in X
      put C & comma after R
   end repeat
   return char 1 to -2 of R
end charsToItems

function itemsToChars X
   replace comma with empty in X
   return X
end itemsToChars
Output:
abel,able,bale,bela,elba
angel,angle,galen,glean,lange
elan,lane,lean,lena,neal
alger,glare,lager,large,regal
caret,carte,cater,crate,trace
evil,levi,live,veil,vile

Lua

Lua's core library is very small and does not include built-in network functionality. If a networking library were imported, the local file in the following script could be replaced with the remote dictionary file.

function sort(word)
  local bytes = {word:byte(1, -1)}
  table.sort(bytes)
  return string.char(table.unpack(bytes))
end

-- Read in and organize the words.
-- word_sets[<alphabetized_letter_list>] = {<words_with_those_letters>}
local word_sets = {}
local max_size = 0
for word in io.lines('unixdict.txt') do
  local key = sort(word)
  if word_sets[key] == nil then word_sets[key] = {} end
  table.insert(word_sets[key], word)
  max_size = math.max(max_size, #word_sets[key])
end

-- Print out the answer sets.
for _, word_set in pairs(word_sets) do
  if #word_set == max_size then
    for _, word in pairs(word_set) do io.write(word .. ' ') end
    print('')  -- Finish with a newline.
  end
end
Output:
abel able bale bela elba 
evil levi live veil vile 
alger glare lager large regal 
angel angle galen glean lange 
caret carte cater crate trace 
elan lane lean lena neal

M4

divert(-1)
changequote(`[',`]')
define([for],
   [ifelse($#,0,[[$0]],
   [ifelse(eval($2<=$3),1,
   [pushdef([$1],$2)$4[]popdef([$1])$0([$1],incr($2),$3,[$4])])])])
define([_bar],include(t.txt))
define([eachlineA],
   [ifelse(eval($2>0),1,
      [$3(substr([$1],0,$2))[]eachline(substr([$1],incr($2)),[$3])])])
define([eachline],[eachlineA([$1],index($1,[
]),[$2])])
define([removefirst],
   [substr([$1],0,$2)[]substr([$1],incr($2))])
define([checkfirst],
   [ifelse(eval(index([$2],substr([$1],0,1))<0),1,
      0,
      [ispermutation(substr([$1],1),
            removefirst([$2],index([$2],substr([$1],0,1))))])])
define([ispermutation],
   [ifelse([$1],[$2],1,
      eval(len([$1])!=len([$2])),1,0,
      len([$1]),0,0,
      [checkfirst([$1],[$2])])])
define([_set],[define($1<$2>,$3)])
define([_get],[defn([$1<$2>])])
define([_max],1)
define([_n],0)
define([matchj],
   [_set([count],$2,incr(_get([count],$2)))[]ifelse(eval(_get([count],$2)>_max),
         1,[define([_max],incr(_max))])[]_set([list],$2,[_get([list],$2) $1])])
define([checkwordj],
   [ifelse(ispermutation([$1],_get([word],$2)),1,[matchj([$1],$2)],
         [addwordj([$1],incr($2))])])
define([_append],
   [_set([word],_n,[$1])[]_set([count],_n,1)[]_set([list],_n,
         [$1 ])[]define([_n],incr(_n))])
define([addwordj],
   [ifelse($2,_n,[_append([$1])],[checkwordj([$1],$2)])])
define([addword],
   [addwordj([$1],0)])
divert
eachline(_bar,[addword])
_max
for([x],1,_n,[ifelse(_get([count],x),_max,[_get([list],x)
])])

Memory limitations keep this program from working on the full-sized dictionary.

Output:

(using only the first 100 words as input)

2
abel  able
aboard  abroad

Maple

The first line downloads the specified dictionary. (You could, instead, read it from a file, or use one of Maple's built-in word lists.) Next, turn it into a list of words. The assignment to T is where the real work is done (via Classify, in the ListTools package). This creates sets of words all of which have the same "hash", which is, in this case, the sorted word. The convert call discards the hashes, which have done their job, and leaves us with a list L of anagram sets. Finally, we just note the size of the largest sets of anagrams, and pick those off.

words := HTTP:-Get( "http://wiki.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt" )[2]: # ignore errors
use StringTools, ListTools in
  T := Classify( Sort, map( Trim, Split( words ) ) )
end use:
L := convert( T, 'list' ):
m := max( map( nops, L ) ); # what is the largest set?
A := select( s -> evalb( nops( s ) = m ), L ); # get the maximal sets of anagrams

The result of running this code is

A := [{"abel", "able", "bale", "bela", "elba"}, {"angel", "angle", "galen",
"glean", "lange"}, {"alger", "glare", "lager", "large", "regal"}, {"evil",
"levi", "live", "veil", "vile"}, {"caret", "carte", "cater", "crate", "trace"}
, {"elan", "lane", "lean", "lena", "neal"}];

Mathematica /Wolfram Language

Download the dictionary, split the lines, split the word in characters and sort them. Now sort by those words, and find sequences of equal 'letter-hashes'. Return the longest sequences:

list=Import["http://wiki.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt","Lines"];
text={#,StringJoin@@Sort[Characters[#]]}&/@list;
text=SortBy[text,#[[2]]&];
splits=Split[text,#1[[2]]==#2[[2]]&][[All,All,1]];
maxlen=Max[Length/@splits];
Select[splits,Length[#]==maxlen&]

gives back:

{{abel,able,bale,bela,elba},{caret,carte,cater,crate,trace},{angel,angle,galen,glean,lange},{alger,glare,lager,large,regal},{elan,lane,lean,lena,neal},{evil,levi,live,veil,vile}}

An alternative is faster, but requires version 7 (for Gather):

splits = Gather[list, Sort[Characters[#]] == Sort[Characters[#2]] &];
maxlen = Max[Length /@ splits];
Select[splits, Length[#] == maxlen &]

Or using build-in functions for sorting and gathering elements in lists it can be implimented as:

anagramGroups = GatherBy[SortBy[GatherBy[list,Sort[Characters[#]] &],Length],Length];
anagramGroups[[-1]]

Also, Mathematica's own word list is available; replacing the list definition with list = WordData[]; and forcing maxlen to 5 yields instead this result:

{{angered,derange,enraged,grandee,grenade},
 {anisometric,creationism,miscreation,reactionism,romanticise},
 {aper,pare,pear,rape,reap},
 {ardeb,barde,bared,beard,bread,debar},
 {aril,lair,lari,liar,lira,rail,rial},
 {aster,rates,stare,tears,teras},
 {caret,carte,cater,crate,react,trace},
 {east,eats,sate,seat,seta},
 {ester,reset,steer,teres,terse},
 {inert,inter,niter,nitre,trine},
 {latrine,ratline,reliant,retinal,trenail},
 {least,slate,stale,steal,stela,tesla},
 {luster,lustre,result,rustle,sutler,ulster},
 {merit,miter,mitre,remit,timer},
 {part,prat,rapt,tarp,trap},
 {resin,rinse,risen,serin,siren},
 {respect,scepter,sceptre,specter,spectre}}

Also if using Mathematica 10 it gets really concise:

list=Import["http://wiki.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt","Lines"];
MaximalBy[GatherBy[list, Sort@*Characters], Length]

Maxima

read_file(name) := block([file, s, L], file: openr(name), L: [],
while stringp(s: readline(file)) do L: cons(s, L), close(file), L)$

u: read_file("C:/my/mxm/unixdict.txt")$

v: map(lambda([s], [ssort(s), s]), u)$

w: sort(v, lambda([x, y], orderlessp(x[1], y[1])))$

ana(L) := block([m, n, p, r, u, v, w],
L: endcons(["", ""], L),
n: length(L),
r: "",
m: 0,
v: [ ],
w: [ ],
for i from 1 thru n do (
   u: L[i],
   if r = u[1] then (
      w: cons(u[2], w)
   ) else (
      p: length(w),
      if p >= m then (
         if p > m then (m: p, v: []),
         v: cons(w, v)
      ),
      w: [u[2]],
      r: u[1]
   )
),
v)$

ana(w);
/* [["evil", "levi", "live", "veil", "vile"],
    ["elan", "lane", "lean", "lena", "neal"],
    ["alger", "glare", "lager", "large", "regal"],
    ["angel", "angle", "galen", "glean", "lange"],
    ["caret", "carte", "cater", "crate", "trace"],
    ["abel", "able", "bale", "bela", "elba"]] */

MiniScript

This implementation is for use with the Mini Micro version of MiniScript. The command-line version does not include a HTTP library. The script can be modified to use the file class to read a local copy of the word list.

wordList = http.get("http://wiki.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt").split(char(10))

makeKey = function(word)
	return word.split("").sort.join("")
end function

wordSets = {}
for word in wordList
	k = makeKey(word)
	if not wordSets.hasIndex(k) then
		wordSets[k] = [word]
	else
		wordSets[k].push(word)
	end if
end for

counts = []

for wordSet in wordSets.values
	counts.push([wordSet.len, wordSet])
end for
counts.sort(0, false)

maxCount = counts[0][0]
for count in counts
	if count[0] == maxCount then print count[1]
end for
Output:
["abel", "able", "bale", "bela", "elba"]
["alger", "glare", "lager", "large", "regal"]
["angel", "angle", "galen", "glean", "lange"]
["caret", "carte", "cater", "crate", "trace"]
["elan", "lane", "lean", "lena", "neal"]
["evil", "levi", "live", "veil", "vile"]

MUMPS

Anagrams	New ii,file,longest,most,sorted,word
	Set file="unixdict.txt"
	Open file:"r" Use file
	For  Quit:$ZEOF  DO
	. New char,sort
	. Read word Quit:word=""
	. For ii=1:1:$Length(word) Do
	. . Set char=$ASCII(word,ii)
	. . If char>64,char<91 Set char=char+32
	. . Set sort(char)=$Get(sort(char))+1
	. . Quit
	. Set (sorted,char)="" For  Set char=$Order(sort(char)) Quit:char=""  Do
	. . For ii=1:1:sort(char) Set sorted=sorted_$Char(char)
	. . Quit
	. Set table(sorted,word)=1
	. Quit
	Close file
	Set sorted="" For  Set sorted=$Order(table(sorted)) Quit:sorted=""  Do
	. Set ii=0,word="" For  Set word=$Order(table(sorted,word)) Quit:word=""  Set ii=ii+1
	. Quit:ii<2
	. Set most(ii,sorted)=1
	. Quit
	Write !,"The anagrams with the most variations:"
	Set ii=$Order(most(""),-1)
	Set sorted="" For  Set sorted=$Order(most(ii,sorted)) Quit:sorted=""  Do
	. Write ! Set word="" For  Set word=$Order(table(sorted,word)) Quit:word=""  Write "  ",word
	. Quit
	Write !,"The longest anagrams:"
	Set ii=$Order(longest(""),-1)
	Set sorted="" For  Set sorted=$Order(longest(ii,sorted)) Quit:sorted=""  Do
	. Write ! Set word="" For  Set word=$Order(table(sorted,word)) Quit:word=""  Write "  ",word
	. Quit
	Quit

Do Anagrams
The anagrams with the most variations:
  abel  able  bale  bela  elba
  caret  carte  cater  crate  trace
  angel  angle  galen  glean  lange
  alger  glare  lager  large  regal
  elan  lane  lean  lena  neal
  evil  levi  live  veil  vile
The longest anagrams:
  conservation  conversation

NetRexx

Java–Like

Translation of: Java
/* NetRexx */
options replace format comments java crossref symbols nobinary

class RAnagramsV01 public

  -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  method runSample(arg) public signals MalformedURLException, IOException
    parse arg localFile .
    isr = Reader
    if localFile = '' then do
      durl = URL("http://wiki.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt")
      dictFrom = durl.toString()
      isr = InputStreamReader(durl.openStream())
      end
    else do
      dictFrom = localFile
      isr = FileReader(localFile)
      end
    say 'Searching' dictFrom 'for anagrams'
    dictionaryReader = BufferedReader(isr)

    anagrams = Map HashMap()
    aWord = String
    count = 0
    loop label w_ forever
      aWord = dictionaryReader.readLine()
      if aWord = null then leave w_
      chars = aWord.toCharArray()
      Arrays.sort(chars)
      key = String(chars)
      if (\anagrams.containsKey(key)) then do 
        anagrams.put(key, ArrayList())
        end
      (ArrayList anagrams.get(key)).add(Object aWord)
      count = Math.max(count, (ArrayList anagrams.get(key)).size())
      end w_
    dictionaryReader.close

    ani = anagrams.values().iterator()
    loop label a_ while ani.hasNext()
      ana = ani.next()
      if (ArrayList ana).size() >= count then do
        say ana
        end
      end a_

    return

  -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  method main(args = String[]) public static

    arg = Rexx(args)
    Do
      ra = RAnagramsV01()
      ra.runSample(arg)
    Catch ex = Exception
      ex.printStackTrace()
    End

    return
Output:
Searching http://wiki.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt for anagrams
[abel, able, bale, bela, elba]
[elan, lane, lean, lena, neal]
[evil, levi, live, veil, vile]
[angel, angle, galen, glean, lange]
[alger, glare, lager, large, regal]
[caret, carte, cater, crate, trace]

Rexx–Like

Implemented with more NetRexx idioms such as indexed strings, PARSE and the NetRexx "built–in functions".

/* NetRexx */
options replace format comments java crossref symbols nobinary

runSample(arg)
return

-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
method findMostAnagrams(arg) public static signals MalformedURLException, IOException
  parse arg localFile .
  isr = Reader
  if localFile = '' then do
    durl = URL("http://wiki.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt")
    dictFrom = durl.toString()
    isr = InputStreamReader(durl.openStream())
    end
  else do
    dictFrom = localFile
    isr = FileReader(localFile)
    end
  say 'Searching' dictFrom 'for anagrams'
  dictionaryReader = BufferedReader(isr)

  anagrams = 0
  maxWords = 0
  loop label w_ forever
    aWord = dictionaryReader.readLine()
    if aWord = null then leave w_
    chars = aWord.toCharArray()
    Arrays.sort(chars)
    key = Rexx(chars)
    parse anagrams[key] count aWords
    aWords = (aWords aWord).space()
    maxWords = maxWords.max(aWords.words())
    anagrams[key] = aWords.words() aWords
    end w_
  dictionaryReader.close

  loop key over anagrams
    parse anagrams[key] count aWords
    if count >= maxWords then
      say aWords
    else
      anagrams[key] = null  -- remove unwanted elements from the indexed string
    end key

  return

-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
method runSample(arg) public static

  Do
    findMostAnagrams(arg)
  Catch ex = Exception
    ex.printStackTrace()
  End

  Return
Output:
Searching http://wiki.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt for anagrams
abel able bale bela elba
elan lane lean lena neal
evil levi live veil vile
angel angle galen glean lange
alger glare lager large regal
caret carte cater crate trace

NewLisp

;;;	Get the words as a list, splitting at newline
(setq data
	(parse (get-url "http://wiki.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt")
	"\n"))
;
;;;	Replace each word with a list of its key (list of sorted chars) and itself
;;;	For example "hello" –> (("e" "h" "l" "l" "o") "hello")
(setq data (map (fn(x) (list (sort (explode x)) x)) data))
;
;;;	Sort on the keys (data is modified); (x 0) is the same as (first x)
(sort data (fn(x y) (> (x 0)(y 0))))
;
;;;	Return a list of lists of words with the same key
;;;	An empty list at the head is inconsequential
(define (group-by-key)
	(let (temp '() res '() oldkey '())
		(dolist (x data)
			(if (= (x 0) oldkey)
				(push (x 1) temp)
				(begin
					(push temp res)
					(setq temp (list (x 1)) oldkey (x 0)))))
		(push temp res)
		res))
;
;;;	Print out only groups of more than 4 words
(map println (filter (fn(x) (> (length x) 4)) (group-by-key)))
Output:
("abel" "able" "bale" "bela" "elba")
("caret" "carte" "cater" "crate" "trace")
("angel" "angle" "galen" "glean" "lange")
("alger" "glare" "lager" "large" "regal")
("elan" "lane" "lean" "lena" "neal")
("evil" "levi" "live" "veil" "vile")

Nim

import tables, strutils, algorithm

proc main() =
    var 
        count    = 0
        anagrams = initTable[string, seq[string]]()

    for word in "unixdict.txt".lines():
        var key = word
        key.sort(cmp[char])
        anagrams.mgetOrPut(key, newSeq[string]()).add(word)
        count = max(count, anagrams[key].len)

    for _, v in anagrams:
        if v.len == count:
            v.join(" ").echo

main()
Output:
evil levi live veil vile 
caret carte cater crate trace 
elan lane lean lena neal 
alger glare lager large regal 
abel able bale bela elba 
angel angle galen glean lange 

Oberon-2

Oxford Oberon-2

MODULE Anagrams;
IMPORT Files,Out,In,Strings;
CONST
	MAXPOOLSZ = 1024;

TYPE
	String = ARRAY 80 OF CHAR;

	Node = POINTER TO NodeDesc;
	NodeDesc = RECORD;
		count: INTEGER;
		word: String;
		desc: Node;
		next: Node;
	END;
	
	Pool = POINTER TO PoolDesc;
	PoolDesc = RECORD
		capacity,max: INTEGER;
		words: POINTER TO ARRAY OF Node;
	END;
	
	PROCEDURE InitNode(n: Node);
	BEGIN
		n^.count := 0;
		n^.word := "";
		n^.desc := NIL;
		n^.next := NIL;
	END InitNode;
	
	PROCEDURE Index(s: ARRAY OF CHAR;cap: INTEGER): INTEGER;
	VAR
		i,sum: INTEGER;
	BEGIN
		sum := 0;
		FOR i := 0 TO  Strings.Length(s) DO
			INC(sum,ORD(s[i]))
		END;
		RETURN sum MOD cap
	END Index;
	
	PROCEDURE ISort(VAR s: ARRAY OF CHAR); 
	VAR 
        i, j: INTEGER; 
        t: CHAR; 
	BEGIN 
        FOR i := 0 TO Strings.Length(s) - 1 DO 
			j := i; 
			t := s[j]; 
			WHILE (j > 0) & (s[j -1] > t) DO 
					s[j] := s[j - 1]; 
					DEC(j) 
			END; 
			s[j] := t 
        END 
	END ISort; 
	
	PROCEDURE SameLetters(x,y: ARRAY OF CHAR): BOOLEAN; 
	BEGIN 
        ISort(x);ISort(y); 
        RETURN (Strings.Compare(x,y) = 0)
	END SameLetters; 
	
	PROCEDURE InitPool(p:Pool);
	BEGIN
		InitPoolWith(p,MAXPOOLSZ);
	END InitPool;
	
	PROCEDURE InitPoolWith(p:Pool;cap: INTEGER);
	VAR
		i: INTEGER;
	BEGIN
		p^.capacity := cap;
		p^.max := 0;
		NEW(p^.words,cap);
		i := 0;
		WHILE i < p^.capacity DO
			p^.words^[i] := NIL;
			INC(i);
		END;
	END InitPoolWith;
	
	PROCEDURE (p: Pool) Add(w: ARRAY OF CHAR);
	VAR
		idx: INTEGER;
		iter,n: Node;
	BEGIN
		idx := Index(w,p^.capacity);
		iter := p^.words^[idx];
		NEW(n);InitNode(n);COPY(w,n^.word);
		WHILE(iter # NIL) DO
			IF SameLetters(w,iter^.word) THEN
				INC(iter^.count);
				IF iter^.count > p^.max THEN p^.max := iter^.count END;
				n^.desc := iter^.desc;
				iter^.desc := n;
				RETURN
			END;
			iter := iter^.next
		END;
		ASSERT(iter = NIL);
		n^.next := p^.words^[idx];p^.words^[idx] := n
	END Add;
	
	PROCEDURE ShowAnagrams(l: Node);
	VAR
		iter: Node;
	BEGIN
		iter := l;
		WHILE iter # NIL DO
			Out.String(iter^.word);Out.String(" ");
			iter := iter^.desc
		END;
		Out.Ln
	END ShowAnagrams;
	
	PROCEDURE (p: Pool) ShowMax();
	VAR
		i: INTEGER;
		iter: Node;
	BEGIN
		FOR i := 0 TO LEN(p^.words^) - 1 DO
			IF p^.words^[i] # NIL THEN
				iter := p^.words^[i];
				WHILE iter # NIL DO
					IF iter^.count = p^.max THEN
						ShowAnagrams(iter); 
					END;
					iter := iter^.next
				END
			END
		END
	END ShowMax;
	
	PROCEDURE DoProcess(fnm: ARRAY OF CHAR);
	VAR
		stdinBck,istream: Files.File;
		line: String;
		p: Pool;
	BEGIN
		istream := Files.Open(fnm,"r");
		stdinBck := Files.stdin;
		Files.stdin := istream;
		NEW(p);InitPool(p);
		WHILE In.Done DO
			In.Line(line);
			p.Add(line);
		END;
		Files.stdin := stdinBck;
		Files.Close(istream);
		p^.ShowMax(); 
	END DoProcess;
	
BEGIN
	DoProcess("unixdict.txt");
END Anagrams.
Output:
abel elba bela bale able 
elan neal lena lean lane 
evil vile veil live levi 
angel lange glean galen angle 
alger regal large lager glare 
caret trace crate cater carte 

Objeck

use HTTP;
use Collection;

class Anagrams {
  function : Main(args : String[]) ~ Nil {
    lines := HttpClient->New()->Get("http://wiki.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt");
    anagrams := StringMap->New();
    count := 0;
    if(lines->Size() = 1) {
      line := lines->Get(0)->As(String);
      words := line->Split("\n");
      each(i : words) {
        word := words[i]->Trim();
        key := String->New(word->ToCharArray()->Sort());
        list := anagrams->Find(key)->As(Vector);
        if(list = Nil) {
          list := Vector->New();
          anagrams->Insert(key, list);
        };
        list->AddBack(word);
        count := count->Max(list->Size());
      };
    
      lists := anagrams->GetValues();
      each(i : lists) {
        list := lists->Get(i)->As(Vector);
        if(list->Size() >= count) {
          '['->Print(); 
          each(j : list) {
            list->Get(j)->As(String)->Print();
            if(j + 1 < list->Size()) {
              ','->Print();
            };
          };
          ']'->PrintLine(); 
        };
      };
    };
  }
}
Output:
[abel,able,bale,bela,elba]
[caret,carte,cater,crate,trace]
[angel,angle,galen,glean,lange]
[alger,glare,lager,large,regal]
[elan,lane,lean,lena,neal]
[evil,levi,live,veil,vile]

OCaml

let explode str =
  let l = ref [] in
  let n = String.length str in
  for i = n - 1 downto 0 do
    l := str.[i] :: !l
  done;
  (!l)

let implode li =
  let n = List.length li in
  let s = String.create n in
  let i = ref 0 in
  List.iter (fun c -> s.[!i] <- c; incr i) li;
  (s)

let () =
  let h = Hashtbl.create 3571 in
  let ic = open_in "unixdict.txt" in
  try while true do
    let w = input_line ic in
    let k = implode (List.sort compare (explode w)) in
    let l =
      try Hashtbl.find h k
      with Not_found -> [] 
    in
    Hashtbl.replace h k (w::l);
  done with End_of_file -> ();
  let n = Hashtbl.fold (fun _ lw n -> max n (List.length lw)) h 0 in
  Hashtbl.iter (fun _ lw ->
    if List.length lw >= n then
    ( List.iter (Printf.printf " %s") lw;
      print_newline () )
  ) h

Oforth

import: mapping
import: collect
import: quicksort

: anagrams
| m |
   "unixdict.txt" File new groupBy( #sort )
   dup sortBy( #[ second size] ) last second size ->m
   filter( #[ second size m == ] )
   apply ( #[ second .cr ] )
;
Output:
>anagrams
[abel, able, bale, bela, elba]
[alger, glare, lager, large, regal]
[angel, angle, galen, glean, lange]
[caret, carte, cater, crate, trace]
[elan, lane, lean, lena, neal]
[evil, levi, live, veil, vile]

ooRexx

Two versions of this, using different collection classes.

Version 1: Directory of arrays

-- This assumes you've already downloaded the following file and placed it
-- in the current directory: http://wiki.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt

-- There are several different ways of reading the file.  I chose the
-- supplier method just because I haven't used it yet in any other examples.
source = .stream~new('unixdict.txt')~supplier
-- this holds our mappings of the anagrams
anagrams = .directory~new
count = 0    -- this is used to keep track of the maximums

loop while source~available
    word = source~item
    -- this produces a string consisting of the characters in sorted order
    -- Note: the ~~ used to invoke sort makes that message return value be
    -- the target array.  The sort method does not normally have a return value.
    key = word~makearray('')~~sort~tostring("l", "")

    -- make sure we have an accumulator collection for this key
    list = anagrams[key]
    if list == .nil then do
       list = .array~new
       anagrams[key] = list
    end
    -- this word is now associate with this key
    list~append(word)
    -- and see if this is a new highest count
    count = max(count, list~items)
    source~next
end

loop letters over anagrams
    list = anagrams[letters]
    if list~items >= count then
        say letters":" list~makestring("l", ", ")
end

Version 2: Using the relation class

This version appears to be the fastest.

-- This assumes you've already downloaded the following file and placed it
-- in the current directory: http://wiki.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt

-- There are several different ways of reading the file.  I chose the
-- supplier method just because I haven't used it yet in any other examples.
source = .stream~new('unixdict.txt')~supplier
-- this holds our mappings of the anagrams.  This is good use for the
-- relation class
anagrams = .relation~new
count = 0    -- this is used to keep track of the maximums

loop while source~available
    word = source~item
    -- this produces a string consisting of the characters in sorted order
    -- Note: the ~~ used to invoke sort makes that message return value be
    -- the target array.  The sort method does not normally have a return value.
    key = word~makearray('')~~sort~tostring("l", "")
    -- add this to our mapping.  This creates multiple entries for each
    -- word that uses the same key
    anagrams[key] = word
    source~next
end

-- now get the set of unique keys
keys = .set~new~~putall(anagrams~allIndexes)
count = 0    -- this is used to keep track of the maximums
most = .directory~new

loop key over keys
    words = anagrams~allAt(key)
    newCount = words~items
    if newCount > count then do
        -- throw away our old set
        most~empty
        count = newCount
        most[key] = words
    end
    -- matches our highest count, add it to the list
    else if newCount == count then
        most[key] = words
end

loop letters over most
    words = most[letters]
    say letters":" words~makestring("l", ", ")
end

Timings taken on my laptop:

Version 1   1.2 seconds
Version 2   0.4 seconds
Rexx       51.1 seconds (!) as of 04.08.2013  (using ooRexx after adapting the code
                                               for incompatibilities: @->y, a=, Upper)
REXX v1     1.7 seconds     as of 05.08.2013  -"- (improved version of REXX code)
REXX v1     1.2 seconds     09.08.2013        -"-
REXX v2     1.2 seconds     09.08.2013
PL/I        4.3 seconds
NetRexx v1   .2 seconds (using local file, 4 seconds with remote)
NetRexx v2   .09 seconds (using local file)

It probably should be noted that the REXX timings are actually for ooRexx executing a modified version of the REXX code.

Statistics:
 sets number of words  
22022 1                
 1089 2                
  155 3                
   31 4                
    6 5  

Oz

declare
  %% Helper function
  fun {ReadLines Filename}
     File = {New class $ from Open.file Open.text end init(name:Filename)}
  in
     for collect:C break:B do
	case {File getS($)} of false then {File close} {B}
	[] Line then {C Line}
        end
     end
  end

  %% Groups anagrams by using a mutable dictionary
  %% with sorted words as keys
  WordDict = {Dictionary.new}
  for Word in {ReadLines "unixdict.txt"}  do
     Keyword = {String.toAtom {Sort Word Value.'<'}}
  in
     WordDict.Keyword := Word|{CondSelect WordDict Keyword nil}
  end
  Sets = {Dictionary.items WordDict}

  %% Filter such that only the largest sets remain
  MaxSetSize = {FoldL {Map Sets Length} Max 0}
  LargestSets = {Filter Sets fun {$ S} {Length S} == MaxSetSize end}
in
  %% Display result (make sure strings are shown as string, not as number lists)
  {Inspector.object configureEntry(widgetShowStrings true)}
  {Inspect LargestSets}

Pascal

Program Anagrams;

// assumes a local file

uses
  classes, math;

var
  i, j, k, maxCount: integer;
  sortedString:      string;
  WordList:          TStringList;
  SortedWordList:    TStringList;
  AnagramList:       array of TStringlist;
  
begin
  WordList := TStringList.Create;
  WordList.LoadFromFile('unixdict.txt');
  for i := 0 to WordList.Count - 1 do
  begin
    setLength(sortedString,Length(WordList.Strings[i]));
    sortedString[1] := WordList.Strings[i][1];

    // sorted assign
    j := 2;
    while j <=  Length(WordList.Strings[i]) do
    begin
      k := j - 1;
      while (WordList.Strings[i][j] < sortedString[k]) and (k > 0) do
      begin
        sortedString[k+1] := sortedString[k];
        k := k - 1;
      end;
      sortedString[k+1] :=  WordList.Strings[i][j];
      j := j + 1;
    end;

    // create the stringlists of the sorted letters and 
    // the list of the original words
    if not assigned(SortedWordList) then
    begin
      SortedWordList := TStringList.Create;
      SortedWordList.append(sortedString);
      setlength(AnagramList,1);
      AnagramList[0] := TStringList.Create;
      AnagramList[0].append(WordList.Strings[i]);
    end
    else
    begin
      j := 0;
      while sortedString <> SortedWordList.Strings[j] do
      begin
        inc(j);
        if j = (SortedWordList.Count) then 
        begin
          SortedWordList.append(sortedString);
          setlength(AnagramList,length(AnagramList) + 1);
          AnagramList[j] := TStringList.Create;
 	  break;
        end;  
      end;
      AnagramList[j].append(WordList.Strings[i]);
    end;
  end;

  maxCount := 1;
  for i := 0 to length(AnagramList) - 1 do
    maxCount := max(maxCount, AnagramList[i].Count);
    
  // create output
  writeln('The largest sets of words have ', maxCount, ' members:');
  for i := 0 to length(AnagramList) - 1 do
  begin
    if AnagramList[i].Count = maxCount then
    begin
      write('"', SortedWordList.strings[i], '": ');
      for j := 0 to AnagramList[i].Count - 2 do
        write(AnagramList[i].strings[j], ', ');
      writeln(AnagramList[i].strings[AnagramList[i].Count - 1]);
    end;
  end;

  // Cleanup
  WordList.Destroy;
  SortedWordList.Destroy;
  for i := 0 to length(AnagramList) - 1 do
    AnagramList[i].Destroy;

end.
Output:
The largest sets of words have 5 members:
"abel": abel, able, bale, bela, elba
"aeglr": alger, glare, lager, large, regal
"aegln": angel, angle, galen, glean, lange
"acert": caret, carte, cater, crate, trace
"aeln": elan, lane, lean, lena, neal
"eilv": evil, levi, live, veil, vile

PascalABC.NET

begin
  var s := System.Net.WebClient.Create.DownloadString('http://wiki.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt');
  var words := s.Split;
  var groups := words.GroupBy(word -> word.Order.JoinToString);
  var maxCount := groups.Max(gr -> gr.Count);
  groups.Where(gr -> gr.Count = maxCount).PrintLines;
end.
Output:
[abel,able,bale,bela,elba]
[alger,glare,lager,large,regal]
[angel,angle,galen,glean,lange]
[caret,carte,cater,crate,trace]
[elan,lane,lean,lena,neal]
[evil,levi,live,veil,vile]


Perl

use List::Util 'max';

my @words = split "\n", do { local( @ARGV, $/ ) = ( 'unixdict.txt' ); <> };
my %anagram;
for my $word (@words) {
    push @{ $anagram{join '', sort split '', $word} }, $word;
}

my $count = max(map {scalar @$_} values %anagram);
for my $ana (values %anagram) {
    print "@$ana\n" if @$ana == $count;
}

If we calculate $max, then we don't need the CPAN module:

push @{$anagram{ join '' => sort split '' }}, $_ for @words;
$max > @$_  or  $max = @$_    for values %anagram;
@$_ == $max and print "@$_\n" for values %anagram;
Output:
alger glare lager large regal
abel able bale bela elba
evil levi live veil vile
angel angle galen glean lange
elan lane lean lena neal
caret carte cater crate trace

Phix

copied from Euphoria and cleaned up slightly

integer fn = open("demo/unixdict.txt","r")
sequence words = {}, anagrams = {}, last="", letters
object word
integer maxlen = 1
 
while 1 do
    word = trim(gets(fn))
    if atom(word) then exit end if
    if length(word) then
        letters = sort(word)
        words = append(words, {letters, word})
    end if
end while
close(fn)

words = sort(words)
for i=1 to length(words) do
    {letters,word} = words[i]
    if letters=last then
        anagrams[$] = append(anagrams[$],word)
        if length(anagrams[$])>maxlen then
            maxlen = length(anagrams[$])
        end if
    else
        last = letters
        anagrams = append(anagrams,{word})
    end if
end for

puts(1,"\nMost anagrams:\n")
for i=1 to length(anagrams) do
    last = anagrams[i]
    if length(last)=maxlen then
        printf(1,"%s\n",{join(last,", ")})
    end if
end for
Output:
Most anagrams:
abel, able, bale, bela, elba
caret, carte, cater, crate, trace
angel, angle, galen, glean, lange
alger, glare, lager, large, regal
elan, lane, lean, lena, neal
evil, levi, live, veil, vile

Phixmonti

include ..\Utilitys.pmt

"unixdict.txt" "r" fopen var f

( )

true while
    f fgets
    dup -1 == if
        drop
        f fclose
        false
    else
        -1 del 
        dup sort swap 2 tolist 0 put 
        true
    endif   
endwhile

sort

"" var prev
( ) var prov
( ) var res
0 var maxlen

len for
    get 1 get dup prev != if
        res prov len maxlen > if len var maxlen endif
        0 put var res ( ) var prov
    endif
    var prev
    2 get nip
    prov swap 0 put var prov
endfor

res

len for
    get len maxlen == if ? else drop endif
endfor

Other solution

include ..\Utilitys.pmt

( )
newd var dict
0 var maxlen

"unixdict.txt" "r" fopen var f
true while
    f fgets
    dup -1 == if
        drop
        f fclose
        false
    else
        -1 del 
        0 put
        true
    endif   
endwhile

len for
    get dup >ps sort dup >ps
    dict swap getd dup
    "Unfound" == if
        drop ps> ps> 1 tolist 
    else
        ps> swap ps> 0 put len maxlen max var maxlen
    endif
    2 tolist setd var dict
endfor

drop dict 2 get nip

len for
    get len maxlen == if ? else drop endif
endfor
Output:
["abel", "able", "bale", "bela", "elba"]

["caret", "carte", "cater", "crate", "trace"] ["angel", "angle", "galen", "glean", "lange"] ["alger", "glare", "lager", "large", "regal"] ["elan", "lane", "lean", "lena", "neal"] ["evil", "levi", "live", "veil", "vile"]

=== Press any key to exit ===

PHP

<?php
$words = explode("\n", file_get_contents('http://wiki.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt'));
foreach ($words as $word) {
    $chars = str_split($word);
    sort($chars);
    $anagram[implode($chars)][] = $word;
}

$best = max(array_map('count', $anagram));
foreach ($anagram as $ana)
    if (count($ana) == $best)
        print_r($ana);
?>

Picat

Using foreach loop:

go =>
   Dict = new_map(),
   foreach(Line in read_file_lines("unixdict.txt"))
      Sorted = Line.sort(),
      Dict.put(Sorted, Dict.get(Sorted,"") ++ [Line] )
   end,
   MaxLen = max([Value.length : _Key=Value in Dict]),
   println(maxLen=MaxLen),
   foreach(_Key=Value in Dict, Value.length == MaxLen)
      println(Value)
   end,
   nl.
Output:
maxLen = 5
[alger,glare,lager,large,regal]
[evil,levi,live,veil,vile]
[abel,able,bale,bela,elba]
[caret,carte,cater,crate,trace]
[angel,angle,galen,glean,lange]
[elan,lane,lean,lena,neal]

Same idea, but shorter version by (mis)using list comprehensions.

go2 =>
  M = new_map(),
  _ = [_:W in read_file_lines("unixdict.txt"),S=sort(W),M.put(S,M.get(S,"")++[W])],
  X = max([V.len : _K=V in M]),
  println(maxLen=X),
  [V : _=V in M, V.len=X].println.
Output:
maxLen = 5
[[evil,levi,live,veil,vile],[abel,able,bale,bela,elba],[caret,carte,cater,crate,trace],[angel,angle,galen,glean,lange],[elan,lane,lean,lena,neal],[alger,glare,lager,large,regal]]

PicoLisp

A straight-forward implementation using 'group' takes 48 seconds on a 1.7 GHz Pentium:

(flip
   (by length sort
      (by '((L) (sort (copy L))) group
         (in "unixdict.txt" (make (while (line) (link @)))) ) ) )

Using a binary tree with the 'idx' function, it takes only 0.42 seconds on the same machine, a factor of 100 faster:

(let Words NIL
   (in "unixdict.txt"
      (while (line)
         (let (Word (pack @)  Key (pack (sort @)))
            (if (idx 'Words Key T)
               (push (car @) Word)
               (set Key (list Word)) ) ) ) )
   (flip (by length sort (mapcar val (idx 'Words)))) )
Output:
-> (("vile" "veil" "live" "levi" "evil") ("trace" "crate" "cater" "carte" "caret
") ("regal" "large" "lager" "glare" "alger") ("neal" "lena" "lean" "lane" "elan"
) ("lange" "glean" "galen" "angle" "angel") ("elba" "bela" "bale" "able" "abel")
 ("tulsa" "talus" "sault" "latus") ...

PL/I

/* Search a list of words, finding those having the same letters. */

word_test: proc options (main);
   declare words (50000) character (20) varying,
           frequency (50000) fixed binary;
   declare word character (20) varying;
   declare (i, k, wp, most) fixed binary (31);

   on endfile (sysin) go to done;

   words = ''; frequency = 0;
   wp = 0;
   do forever;
      get edit (word) (L);
      call search_word_list (word);
   end;

done:
   put skip list ('There are ' || wp || ' words');
   most = 0;
   /* Determine the word(s) having the greatest number of anagrams. */
   do i = 1 to wp;
      if most < frequency(i) then most = frequency(i);
   end;
   put skip edit ('The following word(s) have ', trim(most), ' anagrams:') (a);
   put skip;
   do i = 1 to wp;
      if most = frequency(i) then put edit (words(i)) (x(1), a);
   end;

search_word_list: procedure (word) options (reorder);
   declare word character (*) varying;
   declare i fixed binary (31);

   do i = 1 to wp;
      if length(words(i)) = length(word) then
         if is_anagram(word, words(i)) then
            do;
               frequency(i) = frequency(i) + 1;
               return;
            end;
   end;
   /* The word does not exist in the list, so add it. */
   if wp >= hbound(words,1) then return;
   wp = wp + 1;
   words(wp) = word;
   frequency(wp) = 1;
   return;
end search_word_list;

/* Returns true if the words are anagrams, otherwise returns false. */
is_anagram: procedure (word1, word2) returns (bit(1)) options (reorder);
   declare (word1, word2) character (*) varying;
   declare tword character (20) varying, c character (1);
   declare (i, j) fixed binary;

   tword = word2;
   do i = 1 to length(word1);
      c = substr(word1, i, 1);
      j = index(tword, c);
      if j = 0 then return ('0'b);
      substr(tword, j, 1) = ' ';
   end;
   return ('1'b);
end is_anagram;

end word_test;
Output:
There are          23565 words 
The following word(s) have 5 anagrams:
 abel alger angel caret elan evil

Pointless

output =
  readFileLines("unixdict.txt")
  |> reduce(logWord, {})
  |> vals
  |> getMax
  |> printLines

logWord(dict, word) =
  (dict with $[chars] = [word] ++ getDefault(dict, [], chars))
  where chars = sort(word)

getMax(groups) =
  groups |> filter(g => length(g) == maxLength)
  where maxLength = groups |> map(length) |> maximum
Output:
["elba", "bela", "bale", "able", "abel"]
["neal", "lena", "lean", "lane", "elan"]
["vile", "veil", "live", "levi", "evil"]
["lange", "glean", "galen", "angle", "angel"]
["regal", "large", "lager", "glare", "alger"]
["trace", "crate", "cater", "carte", "caret"]

PowerShell

Works with: PowerShell version 2
$c = New-Object Net.WebClient
$words = -split ($c.DownloadString('http://wiki.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt'))
$top_anagrams = $words `
    | ForEach-Object {
          $_ | Add-Member -PassThru NoteProperty Characters `
                   (-join (([char[]] $_) | Sort-Object))
      } `
    | Group-Object Characters `
    | Group-Object Count `
    | Sort-Object Count `
    | Select-Object -First 1

$top_anagrams.Group | ForEach-Object { $_.Group -join ', ' }
Output:
abel, able, bale, bela, elba
alger, glare, lager, large, regal
angel, angle, galen, glean, lange
caret, carte, cater, crate, trace
elan, lane, lean, lena, neal
evil, levi, live, veil, vile

Another way with more .Net methods is quite a different style, but drops the runtime from 2 minutes to 1.5 seconds:

$Timer = [System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch]::StartNew()

$uri = 'http://wiki.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt'
$words = -split [Net.WebClient]::new().DownloadString($uri)

$anagrams = @{}
$maxAnagramCount = 0

foreach ($w in $words)
{
    # Sort the characters in the word into alphabetical order
    $chars=[char[]]$w
    [array]::sort($chars)
    $orderedChars = [string]::Join('', $chars)
    

    # If no anagrams list for these chars, make one
    if (-not $anagrams.ContainsKey($orderedChars))
    {
        $anagrams[$orderedChars] = [Collections.Generic.List[String]]::new()
    }


    # Add current word as an anagram of these chars,
    # in a way which keeps the list available
    ($list = $anagrams[$orderedChars]).Add($w)
    

    # Keep running score of max number of anagrams seen
    if ($list.Count -gt $maxAnagramCount)
    {
        $maxAnagramCount = $list.Count
    }
    
}

foreach ($entry in $anagrams.GetEnumerator())
{
    if ($entry.Value.Count -eq $maxAnagramCount)
    {
        [string]::join('', $entry.Value)
    }
}

Processing

import java.util.Map;

void setup() {
  String[] words = loadStrings("http://wiki.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt");
  topAnagrams(words);
}

void topAnagrams (String[] words){
  HashMap<String, StringList> anagrams = new HashMap<String, StringList>();
  int maxcount = 0;
  for (String word : words) {
    char[] chars = word.toCharArray();
    chars = sort(chars);
    String key = new String(chars);
    if (!anagrams.containsKey(key)) {
      anagrams.put(key, new StringList());
    }
    anagrams.get(key).append(word);
    maxcount = max(maxcount, anagrams.get(key).size());
  }
  for (StringList ana : anagrams.values()) {
    if (ana.size() >= maxcount) {
      println(ana);
    }
  }
}
Output:
StringList size=5 [ "evil", "levi", "live", "veil", "vile" ]
StringList size=5 [ "abel", "able", "bale", "bela", "elba" ]
StringList size=5 [ "elan", "lane", "lean", "lena", "neal" ]
StringList size=5 [ "angel", "angle", "galen", "glean", "lange" ]
StringList size=5 [ "alger", "glare", "lager", "large", "regal" ]
StringList size=5 [ "caret", "carte", "cater", "crate", "trace" ]

Prolog

Works with: SWI-Prolog version 5.10.0
:- use_module(library( http/http_open )).

anagrams:-
        % we read the URL of the words
	http_open('http://wiki.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt',	In, []),
	read_file(In, [], Out),
	close(In),

        % we get a list of pairs key-value where key = a-word value = <list-of-its-codes>
        % this list must be sorted
	msort(Out, MOut),

        % in order to gather values with the same keys
	group_pairs_by_key(MOut, GPL),

        % we sorted this list in decreasing order of the length of values
	predsort(my_compare, GPL, GPLSort),

	% we extract the first 6 items 
        GPLSort = [_H1-T1, _H2-T2, _H3-T3, _H4-T4, _H5-T5, _H6-T6 | _],

        % Tnn are lists of codes (97 for 'a'), we create the strings 
	maplist(maplist(atom_codes), L, [T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6] ),

	maplist(writeln, L).


read_file(In, L, L1) :-
	read_line_to_codes(In, W),
	(   W == end_of_file -> 
               % the file is read
	       L1 = L
	       ; 
               % we sort the list of codes of the line
	       msort(W, W1),

               % to create the key in alphabetic order
	       atom_codes(A, W1), 

               % and we have the pair Key-Value in the result list
	       read_file(In, [A-W | L], L1)).

% predicate for sorting list of pairs Key-Values
% if the lentgh of values is the same
% we sort the keys in alhabetic order
my_compare(R, K1-V1, K2-V2) :-
	length(V1, L1),
	length(V2, L2),
	(   L1 < L2 -> R = >; L1 > L2 -> R = <; compare(R, K1, K2)).

The result is

[abel,able,bale,bela,elba]
[caret,carte,cater,crate,trace]
[angel,angle,galen,glean,lange]
[alger,glare,lager,large,regal]
[elan,lane,lean,lena,neal]
[evil,levi,live,veil,vile]
true

PureBasic

Works with: PureBasic version 4.4
InitNetwork()  ;
OpenConsole()
 
Procedure.s sortWord(word$)
  len.i = Len(word$)
  Dim CharArray.s (len)
 
  For n = 1 To len                                 ; Transfering each single character 
     CharArray(n) = Mid(word$, n, 1)      ; of the word into an array.
  Next                               
 
  SortArray(CharArray(),#PB_Sort_NoCase ) ; Sorting the array. 
 
  word$ ="" 
  For n = 1 To len                       ; Writing back each single 
     word$ + CharArray(n)             ; character of the array.
  Next 
 
  ProcedureReturn word$
EndProcedure

;for a faster and more advanced alternative replace the previous procedure with this code
; Procedure.s sortWord(word$) ;returns a string with the letters of the word sorted
;   Protected wordLength = Len(word$)
;   Protected Dim letters.c(wordLength)
;   
;   PokeS(@letters(), word$) ;overwrite the array with the strings contents
;   SortArray(letters(), #PB_Sort_Ascending, 0, wordLength - 1)
;   ProcedureReturn PeekS(@letters(), wordLength) ;return the arrays contents
; EndProcedure
 
 
tmpdir$   = GetTemporaryDirectory()
filename$ = tmpdir$ + "unixdict.txt"
Structure ana
   isana.l
   anas.s
EndStructure
 
NewMap anaMap.ana()
 
If ReceiveHTTPFile("http://wiki.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt", filename$)
  If ReadFile(1, filename$)
    Repeat
      word$ = (ReadString(1))             ; Reading a word from a file.
      key$  = (sortWord(word$))             ; Sorting the word and storing in key$.
 
      If FindMapElement(anaMap(), key$)   ; Looking up if a word already had the same key$.
 
                                          ; if yes 
         anaMap()\anas  = anaMap()\anas+ ", " + word$   ; adding the word
         anaMap()\isana + 1   
      Else
                                          ; if no       
         anaMap(key$)\anas = word$        ; applying  a new record
         anaMap()\isana = 1 
       EndIf
       
      If anaMap()\isana > maxAnagrams ;make note of maximum anagram count
        maxAnagrams = anaMap()\isana
      EndIf
      
    Until Eof(1)
    CloseFile(1)
    DeleteFile(filename$)
 
    ;----- output -----
    ForEach anaMap()
      If anaMap()\isana = maxAnagrams      ; only emit elements that have the most hits
        PrintN(anaMap()\anas)
      EndIf 
    Next
 
    PrintN("Press any key"): Repeat: Until Inkey() <> ""       
  EndIf
EndIf
Output:
evil, levi, live, veil, vile
angel, angle, galen, glean, lange
alger, glare, lager, large, regal
abel, able, bale, bela, elba
elan, lane, lean, lena, neal
caret, carte, cater, crate, trace

Python

Python 3.X Using defaultdict

Python 3.2 shell input (IDLE)

>>> import urllib.request
>>> from collections import defaultdict
>>> words = urllib.request.urlopen('http://wiki.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt').read().split()
>>> anagram = defaultdict(list) # map sorted chars to anagrams
>>> for word in words:
	anagram[tuple(sorted(word))].append( word )

	
>>> count = max(len(ana) for ana in anagram.values())
>>> for ana in anagram.values():
	if len(ana) >= count:
		print ([x.decode() for x in ana])

Python 2.7 version

Python 2.7 shell input (IDLE)

>>> import urllib
>>> from collections import defaultdict
>>> words = urllib.urlopen('http://wiki.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt').read().split()
>>> len(words)
25104
>>> anagram = defaultdict(list) # map sorted chars to anagrams
>>> for word in words:
	anagram[tuple(sorted(word))].append( word )

	
>>> count = max(len(ana) for ana in anagram.itervalues())
>>> for ana in anagram.itervalues():
	if len(ana) >= count:
		print ana

		
['angel', 'angle', 'galen', 'glean', 'lange']
['alger', 'glare', 'lager', 'large', 'regal']
['caret', 'carte', 'cater', 'crate', 'trace']
['evil', 'levi', 'live', 'veil', 'vile']
['elan', 'lane', 'lean', 'lena', 'neal']
['abel', 'able', 'bale', 'bela', 'elba']
>>> count
5
>>>

Python: Using groupby

Translation of: Haskell
Works with: Python version 2.6

sort and then group using groupby()

>>> import urllib, itertools
>>> words = urllib.urlopen('http://wiki.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt').read().split()
>>> len(words)
25104
>>> anagrams = [list(g) for k,g in itertools.groupby(sorted(words, key=sorted), key=sorted)]


>>> count = max(len(ana) for ana in anagrams)
>>> for ana in anagrams:
	if len(ana) >= count:
		print ana

		
['abel', 'able', 'bale', 'bela', 'elba']
['caret', 'carte', 'cater', 'crate', 'trace']
['angel', 'angle', 'galen', 'glean', 'lange']
['alger', 'glare', 'lager', 'large', 'regal']
['elan', 'lane', 'lean', 'lena', 'neal']
['evil', 'levi', 'live', 'veil', 'vile']
>>> count
5
>>>


Or, disaggregating, speeding up a bit by avoiding the slightly expensive use of sorted as a key, updating for Python 3, and using a local unixdict.txt:

Works with: Python version 3.7
'''Largest anagram groups found in list of words.'''

from os.path import expanduser
from itertools import groupby
from operator import eq


# main :: IO ()
def main():
    '''Largest anagram groups in local unixdict.txt'''

    print(unlines(
        largestAnagramGroups(
            lines(readFile('unixdict.txt'))
        )
    ))


# largestAnagramGroups :: [String] -> [[String]]
def largestAnagramGroups(ws):
    '''A list of the anagram groups of
       of the largest size found in a
       given list of words.
    '''

    # wordChars :: String -> (String, String)
    def wordChars(w):
        '''A word paired with its
           AZ sorted characters
        '''
        return (''.join(sorted(w)), w)

    groups = list(map(
        compose(list)(snd),
        groupby(
            sorted(
                map(wordChars, ws),
                key=fst
            ),
            key=fst
        )
    ))

    intMax = max(map(len, groups))
    return list(map(
        compose(unwords)(curry(map)(snd)),
        filter(compose(curry(eq)(intMax))(len), groups)
    ))


# GENERIC -------------------------------------------------

# compose (<<<) :: (b -> c) -> (a -> b) -> a -> c
def compose(g):
    '''Right to left function composition.'''
    return lambda f: lambda x: g(f(x))


# curry :: ((a, b) -> c) -> a -> b -> c
def curry(f):
    '''A curried function derived
       from an uncurried function.'''
    return lambda a: lambda b: f(a, b)


# fst :: (a, b) -> a
def fst(tpl):
    '''First member of a pair.'''
    return tpl[0]


# lines :: String -> [String]
def lines(s):
    '''A list of strings,
       (containing no newline characters)
       derived from a single new-line delimited string.'''
    return s.splitlines()


# from os.path import expanduser
# readFile :: FilePath -> IO String
def readFile(fp):
    '''The contents of any file at the path
       derived by expanding any ~ in fp.'''
    with open(expanduser(fp), 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f:
        return f.read()


# snd :: (a, b) -> b
def snd(tpl):
    '''Second member of a pair.'''
    return tpl[1]


# unlines :: [String] -> String
def unlines(xs):
    '''A single string derived by the intercalation
       of a list of strings with the newline character.'''
    return '\n'.join(xs)


# unwords :: [String] -> String
def unwords(xs):
    '''A space-separated string derived from
       a list of words.'''
    return ' '.join(xs)


# MAIN ---
if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()
Output:
caret carte cater crate creat creta react recta trace
angor argon goran grano groan nagor orang organ rogan
ester estre reest reset steer stere stree terse tsere

QB64

$CHECKING:OFF
' Warning: Keep the above line commented out until you know your newly edited code works.
'          You can NOT stop a program in mid run (using top right x button) with checkng off.
'
_TITLE "Rosetta Code Anagrams: mod #7 Best times yet w/o memory techniques by bplus 2017-12-12"
' This program now below .4 secs for average time to do 100 loops compared to 92 secs for 1
' loop on my "dinosaur" when I first coded a successful run.
'
' Steve McNeil at QB64.net has +7000 loops per sec on his machine with help of using
' memory techniques.  see page 3 @  http://www.qb64.net/forum/index.php?topic=14622.30
'
' Thanks Steve! I learned allot and am NOW very motivated to learn memory techniques.
'
' This program has timings for 1 loop broken into sections currently commented out and another
' set of timings for multiple loop testing currently set, now at 100 tests for a sort of average.
' But average is misleading, the first test is usually always the longest and really only one test
' is necessary to get the results from a data file that does not change.
'
' Breaking code into logical sections and timing those can help spot trouble areas or the difference
' in a small or great change.
'
' Here is review of speed tips commented as they occur in code:
'
DEFINT A-Z 'there are 25,105 words in the unixdict.txt file so main array index
'           and pointers in sort can all be integers.

' The letters from a word read in from the dictionary file (really just a word list in alpha order)
' are to be counted and coded into an alpha order sequence of letters:
'       eg.  eilv is the same code for words: evil, levi, live, veil, vile
' The longest word in the file had 22 letters, they are all lower case but there are other symbols
' in file like ' and digits we want to filter out.
TYPE wordData
    code AS STRING * 22
    theWord AS STRING * 22
END TYPE
' I originally was coding a word into the whole list (array) of letter counts as a string.
' Then realized I could drop all the zeros if I converted the numbers back to letters.
' I then attached THE word to the end of the coded word using ! to separate the 2 sections.
' That was allot of manipulation with INSTR to find the ! separator and then MID$ to extract the
' code or THE word when I needed the value. All this extra manipulation ended by using TYPE with
' the code part and the word part sharing the same index. Learned from Steve's example!

' Pick the lowest number type needed to cover the problem
DIM SHARED w(25105) AS wordData '  the main array
DIM anagramSetsCount AS _BYTE ' the Rosetta Code Challenge was to find only the largest sets of Anagrams
DIM codeCount AS _BYTE ' counting number of words with same code
DIM wordIndex AS _BYTE
DIM wordLength AS _BYTE
DIM flag AS _BIT 'flag used as true or false
DIM letterCounts(1 TO 26) AS _BYTE 'stores letter counts for coding word
' b$  always stands for building a string.
' For long and strings, I am using the designated suffix

t1# = TIMER: loops = 100
FOR test = 1 TO loops
    'reset these for multiple loop tests
    indexTop = 0 'indexTop for main data array
    anagramSetsCount = 0 'anagrams count if exceed 4 for any one code
    anagramList$ = "" 'list of anagrams

    'get the file data loaded in one pop, disk access is slow!
    OPEN "unixdict.txt" FOR BINARY AS #1
    ' http://wiki.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt
    ' note: when I downloaded this file line breaks were by chr$(10) only.
    ' Steve had coded for either chr$(13) + chr$(10) or just chr$(10)

    fileLength& = LOF(1): buf$ = SPACE$(fileLength&)
    GET #1, , buf$
    CLOSE #1
    ' Getting the data into a big long string saved allot of time as compared to
    ' reading from the file line by line.

    'Process the file data by extracting the word from the long file string and then
    'coding each word of interest, loading up the w() array.
    filePosition& = 1
    WHILE filePosition& < fileLength&
        nextPosition& = INSTR(filePosition&, buf$, CHR$(10))
        wd$ = MID$(buf$, filePosition&, nextPosition& - filePosition&)
        wordLength = LEN(wd$)
        IF wordLength > 2 THEN
            'From Steve's example, changing from REDIM to ERASE saved an amzing amount of time!
            ERASE letterCounts: flag = 0: wordIndex = 1
            WHILE wordIndex <= wordLength
                'From Steve's example, I was not aware of this version of ASC with MID$ built-in
                ansciChar = ASC(wd$, wordIndex) - 96
                IF 0 < ansciChar AND ansciChar < 27 THEN letterCounts(ansciChar) = letterCounts(ansciChar) + 1 ELSE flag = 1: EXIT WHILE
                wordIndex = wordIndex + 1
            WEND
            'don't code and store a word unless all letters, no digits or apostrophes
            IF flag = 0 THEN
                b$ = "": wordIndex = 1
                WHILE wordIndex < 27
                    IF letterCounts(wordIndex) THEN b$ = b$ + STRING$(letterCounts(wordIndex), CHR$(96 + wordIndex))
                    wordIndex = wordIndex + 1
                WEND
                indexTop = indexTop + 1
                w(indexTop).code = b$
                w(indexTop).theWord = wd$
            END IF
        END IF
        IF nextPosition& THEN filePosition& = nextPosition& + 1 ELSE filePosition& = fileLength&
    WEND
    't2# = TIMER
    'PRINT t2# - t1#; " secs to load word array."

    'Sort using a recursive Quick Sort routine on the code key of wordData Type defined.
    QSort 0, indexTop
    't3# = TIMER
    'PRINT t3# - t2#; " secs to sort array."

    'Now find all the anagrams, word permutations, from the same word "code" that we sorted by.
    flag = 0: j = 0
    WHILE j < indexTop
        'Does the sorted code key match the next one on the list?
        IF w(j).code <> w(j + 1).code THEN ' not matched so stop counting and add to report
            IF codeCount > 4 THEN ' only want the largest sets of anagrams 5 or more
                anagramList$ = anagramList$ + b$ + CHR$(10)
                anagramSetsCount = anagramSetsCount + 1
            END IF
            codeCount = 0: b$ = "": flag = 0
        ELSEIF flag THEN ' match and match flag set so just add to count and build set
            b$ = b$ + ", " + RTRIM$(w(j + 1).theWord)
            codeCount = codeCount + 1
        ELSE ' no flag means first match, start counting and building a new set
            b$ = RTRIM$(w(j).theWord) + ", " + RTRIM$(w(j + 1).theWord)
            codeCount = 2: flag = 1
        END IF
        j = j + 1
    WEND
    't4# = TIMER
    'PRINT t4# - t3#; " secs to count matches from array."
NEXT
PRINT "Ave time per loop"; (TIMER - t1#) / loops; " secs, there were"; anagramSetsCount; " anagrams sets of 5 or more words."
PRINT anagramList$

'This sub modified for wordData Type, to sort by the .code key, the w() array is SHARED
SUB QSort (Start, Finish)
    i = Start: j = Finish: x$ = w(INT((i + j) / 2)).code
    WHILE i <= j
        WHILE w(i).code < x$: i = i + 1: WEND
        WHILE w(j).code > x$: j = j - 1: WEND
        IF i <= j THEN
            SWAP w(i), w(j)
            i = i + 1: j = j - 1
        END IF
    WEND
    IF j > Start THEN QSort Start, j
    IF i < Finish THEN QSort i, Finish
END SUB

2nd solution (by Steve McNeill):

$CHECKING:OFF
SCREEN _NEWIMAGE(640, 480, 32)
_DELAY .5
_SCREENMOVE _MIDDLE

DEFLNG A-Z
TYPE DataType
    Word AS _UNSIGNED INTEGER
    Value AS STRING * 26
END TYPE

REDIM Words(0 TO 30000) AS DataType
REDIM WordList(0 TO 30000) AS STRING * 25
DIM Anagrams(0 TO 30000, 0 TO 10) AS LONG
DIM EndLine AS STRING, Endlength AS LONG
IF INSTR(temp$, CHR$(13)) THEN EndLine = CHR$(13) + CHR$(10) ELSE EndLine = CHR$(10)
Endlength = LEN(EndLine)
DIM t AS _FLOAT 'high precisition timer
DIM t1 AS _FLOAT
DIM letters(97 TO 122) AS _UNSIGNED _BYTE
DIM m1 AS _MEM, m2 AS _MEM, m3 AS _MEM
DIM a AS _UNSIGNED _BYTE
DIM matched(30000) AS _BYTE
m1 = _MEM(letters()): m2 = _MEM(Words()): m3 = _MEM(WordList())
blank$ = STRING$(26, 0)
t1 = TIMER
oldenter = 1

DO UNTIL TIMER - t1 > 1

    t = t1
    looper = looper + 1
    OPEN "unixdict.txt" FOR BINARY AS #1
    temp$ = SPACE$(LOF(1))
    GET #1, 1, temp$ 'just grab the whole datafile from the drive in one swoop
    CLOSE #1
    'PRINT USING "##.###### seconds to load data from disk."; TIMER - t
    t = TIMER

    index = -1 'we want our first word to be indexed at 0, for ease of array/mem swappage
    DO 'and parse it manually into our array
        skip:
        enter = INSTR(oldenter, temp$, EndLine)
        IF enter THEN
            l = enter - oldenter - 1
            wd$ = MID$(temp$, oldenter, l)
            oldenter = enter + Endlength
        ELSE
            wd$ = MID$(temp$, oldenter)
            l = LEN(wd$)
        END IF

        _MEMPUT m1, m1.OFFSET, blank$ 'ERASE letters

        j = 1
        DO UNTIL j > l
            a = ASC(wd$, j)
            IF a < 97 OR a > 122 GOTO skip
            letters(a) = letters(a) + 1 'and count them
            j = j + 1
        LOOP
        index = index + 1
        WordList(index) = wd$
        Words(index).Word = index

        _MEMCOPY m1, m1.OFFSET, 26 TO m2, m2.OFFSET + m2.ELEMENTSIZE * (index) + 2

    LOOP UNTIL enter = 0
    CLOSE #1
    'PRINT USING "##.###### seconds to parse data into array."; TIMER - t
    t = TIMER

    combsort Words(), index

    i = 1
    DO UNTIL i > index

        IF matched(i) = 0 THEN
            count = 0
            DO
                count = count + 1
                c = i + count
                IF c > index THEN EXIT DO
                IF _STRICMP(Words(i).Value, Words(c).Value) <> 0 THEN EXIT DO
                Anagrams(anagram_count, count) = c
                matched(c) = -1
            LOOP
            IF count > 1 THEN
                Anagrams(anagram_count, 0) = i
                Anagrams(anagram_count, 10) = count
                i = c - 1
                anagram_count = anagram_count + 1
            END IF
        END IF
        i = i + 1
    LOOP
    t2## = TIMER
    'PRINT USING "##.###### seconds to make matches."; t2## - t
    'PRINT USING "##.###### total time from start to finish."; t2## - t1
    'PRINT
LOOP
$CHECKING:ON
PRINT "LOOPER:"; looper; "executions from start to finish, in one second."
PRINT "Note, this is including disk access for new data each time."
PRINT
PRINT USING "#.################ seconds on average to run"; 1## / looper

INPUT "Anagram Pool Limit Size (Or larger) =>"; limit
IF limit < 1 THEN END
FOR i = 0 TO anagram_count - 1
    v = Anagrams(i, 10)
    IF v >= limit THEN
        FOR j = 0 TO v
            SELECT CASE j
                CASE 0
                CASE v: PRINT
                CASE ELSE: PRINT ", ";
            END SELECT
            PRINT LEFT$(WordList(Words(Anagrams(i, j)).Word), INSTR(WordList(Words(Anagrams(i, j)).Word), " "));
        NEXT
    END IF
NEXT
END

SUB combsort (array() AS DataType, index AS LONG)
    DIM gap AS LONG
    'This is the routine I tend to use personally and promote.
    'It's short, simple, and easy to implement into code.

    gap = index

    DO
        gap = INT(gap / 1.247330925103979)
        IF gap < 1 THEN gap = 1
        i = 0
        swapped = 0
        DO
            IF array(i).Value > array(i + gap).Value THEN
                SWAP array(i), array(i + gap)
                swapped = -1
            END IF
            i = i + 1
        LOOP UNTIL i + gap > index
    LOOP UNTIL gap = 1 AND swapped = 0
END SUB

Output:

LOOPER: 7134 executions from start to finish, in one second.
Note, this is including disk access for new data each time.

0.000140138155313 seconds on average to run
Anagram Pool Limit Size (or larger) =>? 5
veil, levi, live, vile, evil
lane, neal, lean, lena, elan
alger, lager, large, glare, regal
glean, angel, galen, angle, lange
caret, trace, crate, carte, cater
bale, abel, able, elba, bela

Quackery

  $ "rosetta/unixdict.txt" sharefile drop nest$
  [] swap witheach
    [ dup sort 
      nested swap nested join 
      nested join ] 
  sortwith [ 0 peek swap 0 peek $< ]
  dup 
  [ dup [] ' [ [ ] ] rot 
    witheach 
       [ tuck 0 peek swap 0 peek = if 
           [ tuck nested join swap ] ]
    drop 
    dup [] != while
    nip again ] 
  drop
  witheach
    [ over witheach 
        [ 2dup 0 peek swap 0 peek = iff
            [ 1 peek echo$ sp ] 
          else drop ]
      drop cr ]
  drop
Output:
abel able bale bela elba 
caret carte cater crate trace 
angel angle galen glean lange 
alger glare lager large regal 
elan lane lean lena neal 
evil levi live veil vile  

R

words <- readLines("http://wiki.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt")
word_group <- sapply(
    strsplit(words, split=""), # this will split all words to single letters...
    function(x) paste(sort(x), collapse="") # ...which we sort and paste again
)

counts <- tapply(words, word_group, length) # group words by class to get number of anagrams
anagrams <- tapply(words, word_group, paste, collapse=", ") # group to get string with all anagrams

# Results
table(counts)
counts
    1     2     3     4     5 
22263  1111   155    31     6 

anagrams[counts == max(counts)]
                               abel                               acert 
     "abel, able, bale, bela, elba" "caret, carte, cater, crate, trace" 
                              aegln                               aeglr 
"angel, angle, galen, glean, lange" "alger, glare, lager, large, regal" 
                               aeln                                eilv 
     "elan, lane, lean, lena, neal"      "evil, levi, live, veil, vile"

Racket

#lang racket

(require net/url)         

(define (get-lines url-string)
  (define port (get-pure-port (string->url url-string)))
  (for/list ([l (in-lines port)]) l))

(define (hash-words words)
  (for/fold ([ws-hash (hash)]) ([w words])
    (hash-update ws-hash 
                 (list->string (sort (string->list w) < #:key (λ (c) (char->integer c))))
                 (λ (ws) (cons w ws))
                 (λ () '()))))

(define (get-maxes h)
  (define max-ws (apply max (map length (hash-values h))))
  (define max-keys (filter (λ (k) (= (length (hash-ref h k)) max-ws)) (hash-keys h)))
  (map (λ (k) (hash-ref h k)) max-keys))

(get-maxes (hash-words (get-lines "http://wiki.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt")))
Output:
'(("neal" "lena" "lean" "lane" "elan")
  ("trace" "crate" "cater" "carte" "caret")
  ("regal" "large" "lager" "glare" "alger")
  ("elba" "bela" "bale" "able" "abel")
  ("lange" "glean" "galen" "angle" "angel")
  ("vile" "veil" "live" "levi" "evil"))

Raku

(formerly Perl 6)

Works with: Rakudo version 2016.08
my @anagrams = 'unixdict.txt'.IO.words.classify(*.comb.sort.join).values;
 
my $max = @anagrams».elems.max;

.put for @anagrams.grep(*.elems == $max);
Output:
caret carte cater crate trace
angel angle galen glean lange
alger glare lager large regal
elan lane lean lena neal
evil levi live veil vile
abel able bale bela elba

Just for the fun of it, here's a one-liner that uses no temporaries. Since it would be rather long, we've oriented it vertically:

Works with: Rakudo version 2016.08
.put for                         # print each element of the array made this way:
    'unixdict.txt'.IO.words      # load words from file
    .classify(*.comb.sort.join)  # group by common anagram
    .classify(*.value.elems)     # group by number of anagrams in a group
    .max(*.key).value            # get the group with highest number of anagrams
    .map(*.value)                # get all groups of anagrams in the group just selected

RapidQ

dim x as integer, y as integer
dim SortX as integer
dim StrOutPut as string
dim Count as integer
dim MaxCount as integer

dim AnaList as QStringlist
dim wordlist as QStringlist
dim Templist as QStringlist
dim Charlist as Qstringlist


function sortChars(expr as string) as string
    Charlist.clear
    for SortX = 1 to len(expr)
         Charlist.AddItems expr[SortX]
    next
    charlist.sort
    result = Charlist.text - chr$(10) - chr$(13)
end function
 
'--- Start main code
    wordlist.loadfromfile ("unixdict.txt")

    'create anagram list
    for x = 0 to wordlist.itemcount-1
        AnaList.AddItems sortChars(wordlist.item(x))
    next
       
    'Filter largest anagram lists
    analist.sort
    MaxCount = 0
    
    for x = 0 to AnaList.Itemcount-1
        Count = 0
        for y = x+1 to AnaList.Itemcount-1
            if AnaList.item(y) = AnaList.item(x) then
                inc(count)
            else
                if count > MaxCount then 
                    Templist.clear
                    MaxCount = Count
                    Templist.AddItems AnaList.item(x)
                elseif count = MaxCount then
                    Templist.AddItems AnaList.item(x)
                end if
                exit for
            end if
        next
    next
       
    'Now get the words 
    for x = 0 to Templist.Itemcount-1
        for y = 0 to wordlist.Itemcount-1 
            if Templist.item(x) = sortChars(wordlist.item(y)) then
                StrOutPut = StrOutPut + wordlist.item(y) + "  "
            end if
        next
        StrOutPut = StrOutPut + chr$(13) + chr$(10)
    next

ShowMessage StrOutPut 
End
Output:
abel  able  bale  bela  elba  
caret  carte  cater  crate  trace  
angel  angle  galen  glean  lange  
alger  glare  lager  large  regal  
elan  lane  lean  lena  neal  
evil  levi  live  veil  vile  

Rascal

import Prelude;

list[str] OrderedRep(str word){	
	return sort([word[i] | i <- [0..size(word)-1]]);
}
public list[set[str]] anagram(){
	allwords = readFileLines(|http://wiki.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt|);
	AnagramMap = invert((word : OrderedRep(word) | word <- allwords));
	longest = max([size(group) | group <- range(AnagramMap)]);
	return [AnagramMap[rep]| rep <- AnagramMap, size(AnagramMap[rep]) == longest];
}

Returns:

value: [
  {"glean","galen","lange","angle","angel"},
  {"glare","lager","regal","large","alger"},
  {"carte","trace","crate","caret","cater"},
  {"lane","lena","lean","elan","neal"},
  {"able","bale","abel","bela","elba"},
  {"levi","live","vile","evil","veil"}
]

Red

Red []

m: make map! [] 25000

maxx: 0 
foreach word  read/lines http://wiki.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt [
sword:  sort copy word ;; sorted characters of word

either find m sword [
    append   m/:sword word  
    maxx: max maxx length?  m/:sword
   ] [ 
      put m sword append copy [] word
    ]    
]
foreach v values-of m [ if maxx = length? v [print v] ]
Output:
abel able bale bela elba
alger glare lager large regal
angel angle galen glean lange
caret carte cater crate trace
elan lane lean lena neal
evil levi live veil vile
>> 

REXX

version 1.1, idiomatic

This version doesn't assume that the dictionary is in alphabetical order,   nor does it assume the
words are in any specific case   (lower/upper/mixed).

/*REXX program  finds words  with the  largest set of  anagrams  (of the same size).    */
iFID= 'unixdict.txt'                             /*the dictionary input File IDentifier.*/
$=;     !.=;      ww=0;       uw=0;      most=0  /*initialize a bunch of REXX variables.*/
                                                 /* [↓]  read the entire file (by lines)*/
    do  while lines(iFID) \== 0                  /*Got any data?   Then read a record.  */
    parse value  linein(iFID)  with  @ .         /*obtain a word from an input line.    */
    len=length(@);  if len<3  then iterate       /*onesies and twosies words can't win. */
    if \datatype(@, 'M')      then iterate       /*ignore any  non─anagramable words.   */
    uw=uw + 1                                    /*count of the (useable) words in file.*/
    _=sortA(@)                                   /*sort the letters in the word.        */
    !._=!._ @;       #=words(!._)                /*append it to !._;  bump the counter. */
    if #==most  then $=$ _                       /*append the sorted word──► max anagram*/
                else if #>most  then do;   $=_;   most=#;   if len>ww  then ww=len;    end
    end   /*while*/                              /*$ ◄── list of high count anagrams.   */
say '─────────────────────────'    uw     "usable words in the dictionary file: "     iFID
say
     do m=1  for words($);   z=subword($, m, 1)  /*the high count of the anagrams.      */
     say '     '     left(word(!.z, 1),  ww)      '   [anagrams: '      subword(!.z, 2)"]"
     end   /*m*/                                 /*W   is the maximum width of any word.*/
say
say '───── Found'   words($)    "words  (each of which have"    words(!.z)-1  'anagrams).'
exit                                             /*stick a fork in it,  we're all done. */
/*──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────*/
sortA: arg char 2 xx,@.                          /*get the first letter of arg;  @.=null*/
       @.char=char                               /*no need to concatenate the first char*/
                                                 /*[↓]  sort/put letters alphabetically.*/
                 do length(xx);   parse var xx char 2 xx;    @.char=@.char || char;    end
                                                 /*reassemble word with sorted letters. */
       return @.a || @.b || @.c || @.d || @.e || @.f||@.g||@.h||@.i||@.j||@.k||@.l||@.m||,
              @.n || @.o || @.p || @.q || @.r || @.s||@.t||@.u||@.v||@.w||@.x||@.y||@.z

Programming note:   the long (wide) assignment for     return @.a||...     could've been coded as an elegant   do   loop instead of hardcoding 26 letters,
but since the dictionary (word list) is rather large, a rather expaciated method was used for speed.

output   when using the default input (dictionary):
───────────────────────── 24819 usable words in the dictionary file:  unixdict.txt

      abel     [anagrams:  able bale bela elba]
      angel    [anagrams:  angle galen glean lange]
      elan     [anagrams:  lane lean lena neal]
      alger    [anagrams:  glare lager large regal]
      caret    [anagrams:  carte cater crate trace]
      evil     [anagrams:  levi live veil vile]

───── Found 6 words  (each of which have 4 anagrams).

version 1.2, optimized

This optimized version eliminates the   sortA   subroutine and puts that subroutine's code in-line.

/*REXX program  finds words  with the  largest set of  anagrams  (of the same size).    */
iFID= 'unixdict.txt'                             /*the dictionary input File IDentifier.*/
$=;     !.=;      ww=0;       uw=0;      most=0  /*initialize a bunch of REXX variables.*/
                                                 /* [↓]  read the entire file (by lines)*/
    do  while lines(iFID) \== 0                  /*Got any data?   Then read a record.  */
    parse value  linein(iFID)  with  @ .         /*obtain a word from an input line.    */
    len=length(@);  if len<3  then iterate       /*onesies and twosies words can't win. */
    if \datatype(@, 'M')      then iterate       /*ignore any  non─anagramable words.   */
    uw=uw + 1                                    /*count of the (useable) words in file.*/
    _=sortA(@)                                   /*sort the letters in the word.        */
    !._=!._ @;       #=words(!._)                /*append it to !._;  bump the counter. */
    if #==most  then $=$ _                       /*append the sorted word──► max anagram*/
                else if #>most  then do;   $=_;   most=#;   if len>ww  then ww=len;    end
    end   /*while*/                              /*$ ◄── list of high count anagrams.   */
say '─────────────────────────'    uw    "usable words in the dictionary file: "      iFID
say
     do m=1  for words($);   z=subword($, m, 1)  /*the high count of the anagrams.      */
     say '     '     left(word(!.z, 1),  ww)      '   [anagrams: '      subword(!.z, 2)"]"
     end   /*m*/                                 /*W   is the maximum width of any word.*/
say
say '───── Found'   words($)    "words  (each of which have"    words(!.z)-1  'anagrams).'
exit                                             /*stick a fork in it,  we're all done. */
/*──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────*/
sortA: arg char 2 xx,@.                          /*get the first letter of arg;  @.=null*/
       @.char=char                               /*no need to concatenate the first char*/
                                                 /*[↓]  sort/put letters alphabetically.*/
                 do length(xx);   parse var xx char 2 xx;    @.char=@.char || char;    end
                                                 /*reassemble word with sorted letters. */
       return @.a || @.b || @.c || @.d || @.e || @.f||@.g||@.h||@.i||@.j||@.k||@.l||@.m||,
              @.n || @.o || @.p || @.q || @.r || @.s||@.t||@.u||@.v||@.w||@.x||@.y||@.z
output   is the same as REXX version 1.1

Programming note:   the above REXX programs adopted the method that the REXX version 2 uses for extracting each character of a word.
The method is more obtuse, but when invoking the routine tens of thousands of times, this faster method lends itself to heavy use.

annotated version using   PARSE

(This algorithm actually utilizes a   bin   sort,   one bin for each Latin letter.)

u= 'Halloween'                                   /*word to be sorted by (Latin)  letter.*/
upper u                                          /*fast method to uppercase a variable. */
                                                 /*another:       u = translate(u)      */
                                                 /*another:       parse upper var u u   */
                                                 /*another:       u = upper(u)          */
                                                 /*not always available [↑]             */
say 'u=' u
_.=
       do  until  u==''                          /*keep truckin' until  U  is  null.    */
       parse var u y +1 u                        /*get the next (first) character in  U.*/
       xx='?'y                                   /*assign a prefixed character to   XX. */
       _.xx=_.xx || y                            /*append it to all the  Y  characters. */
       end   /*until*/                           /*U now has the first character elided.*/
                                                 /*Note:  the variable  U  is destroyed.*/

                                                 /* [↓]  constructs a sorted letter word*/

z=_.?a||_.?b||_.?c||_.?d||_.?e||_.?f||_.?g||_.?h||_.?i||_.?j||_.?k||_.?l||_.?m||,
  _.?n||_.?o||_.?p||_.?q||_.?r||_.?s||_.?t||_.?u||_.?v||_.?w||_.?x||_.?y||_.?z

                                   /*Note:  the  ?  is prefixed to the letter to avoid  */
                                   /*collisions with other REXX one-character variables.*/
say 'z=' z
output:
u= HALLOWEEN
z= AEEHLLNOW

annotated version using a   DO   loop

u= 'Halloween'                                   /*word to be sorted by (Latin)  letter.*/
upper u                                          /*fast method to uppercase a variable. */
L=length(u)                                      /*get the length of the word (in bytes)*/
say 'u=' u
say 'L=' L
_.=
       do k=1  for L                             /*keep truckin'  for   L   characters. */
       parse var u =(k) y +1                     /*get the  Kth  character in  U string.*/
       xx='?'y                                   /*assign a prefixed character to   XX. */
       _.xx=_.xx || y                            /*append it to all the  Y  characters. */
       end   /*do k*/                            /*U now has the first character elided.*/

                                                 /* [↓]  construct a sorted letter word.*/

z=_.?a||_.?b||_.?c||_.?d||_.?e||_.?f||_.?g||_.?h||_.?i||_.?j||_.?k||_.?l||_.?m||,
  _.?n||_.?o||_.?p||_.?q||_.?r||_.?s||_.?t||_.?u||_.?v||_.?w||_.?x||_.?y||_.?z

say 'z=' z
output:
u= HALLOWEEN
L= 9
z= AEEHLLNOW

version 2

/*REXX program finds words with the largest set of anagrams (same size)
* 07.08.2013 Walter Pachl
* sorta for word compression courtesy Gerard Schildberger,
*                            modified, however, to obey lowercase
* 10.08.2013 Walter Pachl take care of mixed case dictionary
*                         following Version 1's method
**********************************************************************/
Parse Value 'A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z',
       With  a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
Call time 'R'
ifid='unixdict.txt'              /* input file identifier          */
words=0                          /* number of usable words         */
maxl=0                           /* maximum number of anagrams     */
wl.=''                           /* wl.ws words that have ws       */
Do ri=1 By 1 While lines(ifid)\==0 /* read each word in file       */
  word=space(linein(ifid),0)     /* pick off a word from the input.*/
  If length(word)<3 Then         /* onesies and twosies can't win. */
    Iterate
  If\datatype(word,'M') Then     /* not an anagramable word        */
    Iterate
  words=words+1                  /* count of (useable) words.      */
  ws=sorta(word)                 /* sort the letters in the word.  */
  wl.ws=wl.ws word               /* add word to list of ws         */
  wln=words(wl.ws)               /* number of anagrams with ws     */
  Select
    When wln>maxl Then Do        /* a new maximum                  */
      maxl=wln                   /* use this                       */
      wsl=ws                     /* list of resulting ws values    */
      End
    When wln=maxl Then           /* same as the one found          */
      wsl=wsl ws                 /* add ws to the list             */
    Otherwise                    /* shorter                        */
      Nop                        /* not yet of interest            */
    End
  End
Say ' '
Say copies('-',10) ri-1 'words in the dictionary file: ' ifid
Say copies(' ',10) words 'thereof are anagram candidates'
Say ' '
Say 'There are' words(wsl) 'set(s) of anagrams with' maxl,
                                                       'elements each:'
Say ' '
Do while wsl<>''
  Parse Var wsl ws wsl
  Say '    'wl.ws
  End
Say time('E')
Exit
sorta:
/**********************************************************************
* sort the characters in word_p (lowercase translated to uppercase)
* 'chARa' -> 'AACHR'
**********************************************************************/
  Parse Upper Arg word_p
  c.=''
  Do While word_p>''
    Parse Var word_p cc +1 word_p
    c.cc=c.cc||cc
    End
  Return c.a||c.b||c.c||c.d||c.e||c.f||c.g||c.h||c.i||c.j||c.k||c.l||,
  c.m||c.n||c.o||c.p||c.q||c.r||c.s||c.t||c.u||c.v||c.w||c.x||c.y||c.z
Output:
---------- 25108 words in the dictionary file:  unixdict.txt
           24819 thereof are anagram candidates

There are 6 set(s) of anagrams with 5 elements each:

     abel able bale bela elba
     angel angle galen glean lange
     elan lane lean lena neal
     alger glare lager large regal
     caret carte cater crate trace
     evil levi live veil vile
1.170000                

Ring

# Project : Anagrams

load "stdlib.ring"
fn1 = "unixdict.txt"

fp = fopen(fn1,"r")
str = fread(fp, getFileSize(fp))
fclose(fp) 
strlist = str2list(str)
anagram = newlist(len(strlist), 5)
anag = list(len(strlist))
result = list(len(strlist))
for x = 1 to len(result)
     result[x] = 0
next
for x = 1 to len(anag)
     anag[x] = 0
next
for x = 1 to len(anagram)
    for y = 1 to 5
         anagram[x][y] = 0
    next
next

for n = 1 to len(strlist)
     for m = 1 to len(strlist)
          sum = 0
          if len(strlist[n]) = 4 and len(strlist[m]) = 4 and n != m
             for p = 1 to len(strlist[m])
                  temp1 = count(strlist[n], strlist[m][p])
                  temp2 = count(strlist[m], strlist[m][p])
                  if temp1 = temp2
                     sum = sum + 1
                  ok
             next
             if sum = 4
                anag[n] = anag[n] + 1
                if anag[n] < 6 and result[n] = 0 and result[m] = 0
                   anagram[n][anag[n]] = strlist[m] 
                   result[m] = 1
                ok
             ok
          ok
    next
    if anag[n] > 0
       result[n] = 1
    ok
next

for n = 1 to len(anagram)
     flag = 0
     for m = 1 to 5
         if anagram[n][m] != 0
            if m = 1
               see strlist[n] +  " "
               flag = 1
            ok
            see anagram[n][m] + " "
         ok
     next
     if flag = 1
        see nl
     ok
next

func getFileSize fp
       c_filestart = 0
       c_fileend = 2
       fseek(fp,0,c_fileend)
       nfilesize = ftell(fp)
       fseek(fp,0,c_filestart)
       return nfilesize

func count(astring,bstring)
       cnt = 0
       while substr(astring,bstring) > 0
               cnt = cnt + 1
               astring = substr(astring,substr(astring,bstring)+len(string(sum)))
       end
       return cnt

Output:

abbe babe 
abed bade bead 
abel able bale bela 
abet bate beat beta 
alai alia 
alex axle 
bail bali 
bake beak 
bane bean 
bard brad 
bare bear brae 
barn bran 
beam bema 
blot bolt 
blow bowl 
blur burl 
body boyd 

Ruby

require 'open-uri'

anagram = Hash.new {|hash, key| hash[key] = []} # map sorted chars to anagrams

URI.open('http://wiki.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt') do |f|
  words = f.read.split
  for word in words
    anagram[word.split('').sort] << word
  end
end

count = anagram.values.map {|ana| ana.length}.max
anagram.each_value do |ana|
  if ana.length >= count
    p ana
  end
end
Output:
 ["evil", "levi", "live", "veil", "vile"]
 ["abel", "able", "bale", "bela", "elba"]
 ["elan", "lane", "lean", "lena", "neal"]
 ["alger", "glare", "lager", "large", "regal"]
 ["angel", "angle", "galen", "glean", "lange"]
 ["caret", "carte", "cater", "crate", "trace"]

Short version (with lexical ordered result).

require 'open-uri'

anagrams = open('http://wiki.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt'){|f| f.read.split.group_by{|w| w.each_char.sort} }
anagrams.values.group_by(&:size).max.last.each{|group| puts group.join(", ") }
Output:
abel, able, bale, bela, elba
alger, glare, lager, large, regal
angel, angle, galen, glean, lange
caret, carte, cater, crate, trace
elan, lane, lean, lena, neal
evil, levi, live, veil, vile

Run BASIC

sqliteconnect #mem, ":memory:"
mem$ = "CREATE TABLE anti(gram,ordr);
CREATE INDEX ord ON anti(ordr)"
#mem execute(mem$)
' read the file 
a$ = httpGet$("http://wiki.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt")
 
' break the file words apart
i = 1
while i <> 0
	j	= instr(a$,chr$(10),i+1)
	if j = 0 then exit while
	a1$	= mid$(a$,i,j-i)
	q	= instr(a1$,"'")
	if q > 0 then a1$ = left$(a1$,q) + mid$(a1$,q)
	ln	= len(a1$)
	s$	= a1$
 
	' Split the characters of the word and sort them
	s = 1
	while	s = 1
		s = 0
		for k = 1 to ln -1
			if mid$(s$,k,1) > mid$(s$,k+1,1) then
				h$	= mid$(s$,k,1)
				h1$	= mid$(s$,k+1,1)
				s$ 	= left$(s$,k-1) + h1$ + h$ + mid$(s$,k+2)
				s	= 1
			end if
		next k
	wend
 
	mem$	= "INSERT INTO anti VALUES('";a1$;"','";ord$;"')"
	#mem execute(mem$)
	i	= j +1
wend
' find all antigrams 
mem$	= "SELECT count(*) as cnt,anti.ordr FROM anti GROUP BY ordr ORDER BY cnt desc"
#mem execute(mem$)
numDups = #mem ROWCOUNT()	'Get the number of rows
dim dups$(numDups)
for i = 1 to numDups
	#row	= #mem #nextrow()
	cnt	= #row cnt()
	if i = 1 then maxCnt = cnt
	if cnt < maxCnt then exit for
	dups$(i) = #row ordr$()
next i
 
for i = 1 to i -1
	mem$	= "SELECT anti.gram FROM anti
		   WHERE  anti.ordr = '";dups$(i);"'
		   ORDER BY anti.gram"
	#mem execute(mem$)
	rows = #mem ROWCOUNT()	'Get the number of rows
 
	for ii = 1 to rows
		#row	= #mem #nextrow()
		gram$	= #row gram$()
		print gram$;chr$(9);
	next ii
	print
next i
end
abel	able	bale	bela	elba	
caret	carte	cater	crate	trace	
angel	angle	galen	glean	lange	
alger	glare	lager	large	regal	
elan	lane	lean	lena	neal	
evil	levi	live	veil	vile

Rust