Given a word as argument this little program written in python finds all the permutations that have a meaning in the en_US dictionary

permutations.py

#!/usr/bin/python
import sys
import pprint
from PyDictionary import PyDictionary
import itertools

def check(wordToCheck):
    meaning = dictionary.meaning(wordToCheck)
    if meaning:
        pp.pprint(meaning)
        results[wordToCheck] = meaning
    if not meaning:
        print("I'm sorry I couldn't find the meaning of the word "+ wordToCheck)


# MAIN
results = {}
pp = pprint.PrettyPrinter(indent=4)
word = sys.argv[1]
dictionary=PyDictionary()

permutations = list(set(itertools.permutations([ch for ch in word])))
print ("Checking " + str(len(permutations)) + " unique permutations")

for item in permutations:
  permWord =  ''.join(item)
  print ("Check: " + permWord)
  check(permWord)

print ("Found " +str(len(results))+ " results from " +str(len(permutations)) + " permutations:")
pp.pprint(results)

In order for this to work you need to install PyDictionary module available via pip (or pip3):

sudo pip3 install PyDictionary

you can also change this line:

meaning = dictionary.meaning(wordToCheck)

with this:

meaning = dictionary.googlemeaning(wordToCheck)

to check results from google instead of from a classic dictionary.