Anagram

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A word or phrase formed by reordering the letters of another word or phrase, such as satin to stain.
  • n. A game in which players form words from a group of randomly picked letters.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A word or phrase that is created by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.
  • v. To form anagrams.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change of one word or phrase into another by the transposition of its letters. Thus Galenus becomes angelus; William Noy (attorney-general to Charles I., and a laborious man) may be turned into I moyl in law.
  • v. To anagrammatize.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A transposition of the letters of a word or sentence, to form a new word or sentence: thus, Galenus is an anagram of angelus.
  • n. A word formed by reading the letters of one or more words backward; a palindrome: thus, evil is an anagram of live.
  • To form into an anagram.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase
  • v. read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning
  • Verb Form
    anagrams   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    read   
    Cross Reference
    palindrome    alphagram   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts