Question

In P.S 6, I am kinda confused about what I am supposed to do for the pick_best_word_faster part. From what I've gathered, I am supposed to make a dictionary with the key being the letters of a word in different orders and the values being the words. Is that correct?

Answer 1

yes that is correct

Answer 2

use the itertools module to help you. there's a function called combination that picks combinations of letters (and stores it as a list) for you.
from itertools import combination

Answer 3

you are supposed to make a dictionary where the key is a string with the letters of the word in sorted order and the value is the word

for the string 'make', the dictionary item would be ..
{'aekm' : 'make'}

then use that dictionary with letter combinations from the hand to find words.