Discussion on: Daily Challenge #182 - Arrh, grabscrab!

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JavaScript solution:

function grabscrab(word, dict) {
  const wordSorted = word.split("").sort().join("");
  const ans = [];

  for (let item of dict) {
    itemSorted = item.split("").sort().join("");
    if (itemSorted === wordSorted) {
      ans.push(item);
    }
  }

  return ans;
}

Sort the input word just once outside the loop
Just compare the full sorted words instead of each char to avoid false positives in comparing words like aabbbcc to aaabccc