Anagrams of Meta
Type meta into most word tools and you get a definition. Here you get something else: every word the dictionary knows that can be spelled from the very same 4 letters. There are 3 of them for meta.
Results
3 anagrams found
The short story of Meta's anagrams
Anagrams show up because English recycles letters. A cluster like the one in meta can tile into several real words without adding or removing anything, and the fact that 3 such words exist for one letter set is what makes anagram clues so satisfying in a crossword: the solver has to hold the whole letter set in mind and let the definition steer them to the right ordering.
Using the list
The list is sorted alphabetically and every entry is the same length as meta, by definition. For longer letter sets, scanning by first letter is usually faster than reading straight down. If you are hunting a specific clue, read the definition first, then walk the list for a word that fits it — the anagram is a constraint, the clue is the compass.
If you found one of these words and want to go the other direction — pick a scrambled letter set and find what it could be — the unscrambler tool does that in real time. Feed it the letters in any order and it lists every match instantly, so the lookup direction never matters.