Grouping anagrams

Two words are anagrams iff they share the same multiset of letters. Grouping the seven words listen, silent, enlist, google, banana, tinsel, gogole into anagram classes, how many distinct classes result?

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  1. Give each word its sorted-letter signature; anagrams share one.
  2. Count the distinct signatures - watch for tinsel.

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