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A word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase
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anagram
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
An anagram is direct word switch or word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase, using all the original letters exactly once; for example, the word anagram can be rearranged into nag-a-ram. Someone ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Apart from Holsten Pils, which is obviously, mind-shatteringly brilliant, I mean, anagrams, who'd have thought it? ▪ Chambers suggested-Learlington, as an anagram of Nora Telling. ▪ Florida is an anagram of Rid Of Al. ▪ I decided ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
transposition of letters in a word so as to form another, 1580s, from French anagramme or Modern Latin anagramma (16c.), both from Greek anagrammatizein "transpose letters," from ana- "up, back" (see ana- ) + gramma (genitive grammatos ) "letter" (see grammar ...
Usage examples of anagram.
By and by I got it straightened out into the anagram business Macgillivray had mentioned.
Friedman chose to do so in anagram cipher, the solution to which he sealed in a time-stamped envelope, inviting readers to try and unravel it.
He searches out pattern in the music of a phrase or the spell of an anagram, in the shapes of time or the weave of the universe.
He thought it might be an anagram, since the phrase makes little sense.
I finally solved the all-time killer anagram, after more than a year of working at it in trains and buses and waiting rooms.
I particularly enjoy it when I can make both ends of the anagram work.
I had written down the anagram Edmund had just given us to solve, for it was his turn to provide the puzzle.
Newbold strayed all over the text to force-fit the solutions to anagrams into a predetermined transcription.
She liked anagrams, and she made half a dozen out of my name on the back of a napkin like this one.
To this Sirin would contribute poems, riddles, crossword puzzles, and probably some of its unsigned anagrams, logogriphs, meta-grams.
Martelli composed a satire against Maffei, in which he designated him by the anagram of Femia.
Lying Roven and is by one Ninian Bres, which happens to be anagram of the real name of one of the authors of Mysteries of Magic!
French kings throughout the Renaissance were so convinced that anagrams held magic power that they appointed royal anagrammatists to help them make better decisions by analyzing words in important documents.
You are right about the undead predilection for noms de plume, alter egos, secret identities, anagrams, and palindromes and acrostics.
The printed words became jumbled if she was too specific, but they tended to be anagrams and were easily deciphered.