What is a four letter word that when the letters are rearranged can spell up to five different words?

Question

What is a four letter word that when the letters are rearranged can spell up to five different words?

Answer 1

eats

etas

sate

teas

seat

Answer 2

There are probably a few.  I found these:

able

ABEL

BALE

BELA

BLAE

ELBA

rail

ARIL

LAIR

LARI

LIAR

LIRA

RIAL

Answer 3

Do you have to use all the letters in each word?

Care:

car ear race are ace

Answer 4

star, rats, tars, arts. Hm, that's only four :(

Answer 5

STOP

SPOT

OPTS

POST

POTS

TOPS

HMM this one spells 6 words :-)

Answer 6

arts

rats

star

tars

tsar (I'm sure that -zebecker- just forgot 'tsar')

but catch this one:

east

eats

etas

sate

seat

seta

teas

HMMM. THAT'S SEVEN !!!

(some dictionaries also allow "taes" but some don't, so I didn't include it, otherwise I'd have EIGHT.)