#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use feature qw{ say }; my $dict = '/var/lib/dict/words'; # YMMV sub each_char_has_different_freq { my ($r, $f) = @_; keys %$r == keys %$f } sub frequencies_form_a_sequence { my ($r) = @_; keys %$r == grep $r->{$_}, 1 .. keys %$r } my @linenlessnesses; open my $IN, '<', $dict or die $!; while (<$IN>) { chomp; next if /\W/; my %freq; $freq{$_}++ for split //; my %r = reverse %freq; push @linenlessnesses, $_ if each_char_has_different_freq(\%r, \%freq) && frequencies_form_a_sequence(\%r); } say for sort { length $a <=> length $b } @linenlessnesses;