SOLUTION: The letters of the word WOMAN are written in all possible orders and these words are written out as in a dictionary ,then the rank of the word 'WOMAN' is

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Question 397784: The letters of the word WOMAN are written in all possible orders and these words are written out as in a dictionary
,then the rank of the word 'WOMAN' is

Answer by richard1234(7193)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
There are 120 possible arrangements of the letters in WOMAN. Since WOMAN is near the end, I'll list out the ones after WOMAN:

WONMA
WONAM
WOMNA

There are only three, so these account for the 118th, 119th, 120th words, and it places WOMAN 117th.

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