anagram

The definition of 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

Origin: Fr anagramme < Gr ana-, back + gramma, letter (see gram), modeled on Gr anagrammatizein, to write the letters of a name backwards

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See anagram in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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.

Origin:

Origin: New Latin anagramma

Origin: , from Greek anagrammatismos

Origin: , from anagrammatizein, to rearrange letters in a word

Origin: : ana-, from bottom to top; see ana-

Origin: + gramma, grammat-, letter; see gerbh- in Indo-European roots

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