noun
anagram
A-nuh-gram
noun
1
A word or phrase made by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.
""Listen" is an anagram of "silent.""
"She loves solving anagram puzzles in the newspaper."
verb
1
To rearrange the letters of a word or phrase into a new one.
"You can anagram "cat" into "act.""
How to Use Anagram
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA word puzzle formed by shuffling the letters of another word.
Common pairings
solve an anagram
form an anagram
Word Forms
anagrammed past tense, anagrams plural, anagrams singular
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Etymology
From Greek ana- ("back, up") plus gramma ("letter"), by way of French anagramme.