Anagram

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  • noun. A word or phrase formed by reordering the letters of another word or phrase, such as satin to stain.
  • noun. A game in which players form words from a group of randomly picked letters.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To form into an anagram.
  • noun. A transposition of the letters of a word or sentence, to form a new word or sentence: thus, Galenus is an anagram of angelus.
  • noun. A word formed by reading the letters of one or more words backward; a palindrome: thus, evil is an anagram of live.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. 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.
  • transitive verb. To anagrammatize.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A word or phrase that is created by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.
  • verb. To form anagrams.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase
  • verb. read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning
    • Word Usage
    "Oh, Humbert Humbert anagram is Hmm, the brute rub!"
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    alphagram  palindrome  
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    1/4-in  acrostic  adsensus  cross-reference  decriminalization  
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    abuse of terms  acrostic  amphibologism  amphiboly  anagrammatize  
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