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There are 24 arrangements of the letters in the word ANGLE with A as the first letter (the number of ways of arranging the other 4 letters is $4\times3\times2\times1$). In alphabetical order AEGLN is first and ANLGE is last. ANLEG is the 23rd and hence ANGLE is in the 22nd position on the list.