anagram

An anagram is made by taking a word or several words and mixing up the letters so that another word or words are made. (noun)

Making “astronomer” into “moon starer” is an example of an anagram.

See anagram in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

a word or phrase made from another by rearranging its letters (Ex.: now → won, dread → adder)
a game whose object is to make words by arranging letters from a common pool or by forming anagrams from other words

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See anagram in American Heritage Dictionary 4

(ănˈə-grămˌ)

noun

A word or phrase formed by reordering the letters of another word or phrase, such as satin to stain.
anagrams (used with a sing. verb) A game in which players form words from a group of randomly picked letters.

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