ANAGRAM

anagram

(noun) a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase

anagram, anagrammatize, anagrammatise

(verb) read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

anagram (plural anagrams)

(of words) A word or phrase that is created by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.

Coordinate terms

• alphagram

• palindrome

Verb

anagram (third-person singular simple present anagrams, present participle anagramming, simple past and past participle anagrammed)

To form anagrams.

Anagrams

• argaman

Source: Wiktionary

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An"a*gram, n. Etym: [F. anagramme, LL. anagramma, fr. Gr. Graphic.]

Definition: Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or 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.

An"a*gram, v. t.

Definition: To anagrammatize. Some of these anagramed his name, Benlowes, into Benevolus. Warburton.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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