noun
definition
(of words) A word or phrase that is created by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.
example
The word "silent" is an anagram of "listen".
verb
definition
To form anagrams.
Examples of anagram in a Sentence
You may have to solve an anagram, a jigsaw puzzle, or a tile-matching game.
This constraint makes a good anagram much harder to find.
Teacher links Internet anagram Server make tricky anagrams for your students to unravel.
The Rail Fence Cipher uses letter transposition to generate an incredibly difficult anagram to solve.
She is the subject of a beautiful poem by Longfellow, "Santa Filomena," and the popular estimate of her character and mission was summed up in a particularly felicitous anagram, Flit on, cheering angel.
Locating a Scrabble word maker is as simple as researching anagram scramblers.
In 1615 a dispute between the Venetian government and the Inquisition respecting the prohibition of a book led him to write on the history and procedure of the Venetian Inquisition; and in 1619 his chief literary work, the History of the Council of Trent, was printed at London under the name of Pietro Soave Polano, an anagram of Paolo Sarpi Veneto.
Recently I discovered an anagram search program for Linux which has some interesting capabilities not found in other anagram search program for Linux which has some interesting capabilities not found in other anagram programs I've seen.
The site can also help with anagram answers.
Simon Singh hosts a madcap half hour, mostly intellectual puzzles, a few involving props, and the occasional anagram.
You can set the minimum number of letters that each word should have and any words that you want the anagram to contain.
The only publication which bears Gracian's name is El Comulgatorio (1655); his more important books were issued under the pseudonym of Lorenzo Gracian (possibly a brother of the writer) or under the anagram of Gracian de Marlones.
Olive has been supposed to be an anagram for the name of a Mlle Viole, but there is little evidence of real passion in the poems, and they may perhaps be regarded as a Petrarcan exercise, especially as, in the second edition, the dedication to his lady is exchanged for one to Marguerite de Valois, sister of Henry II.
Later a certain Marie Lejay (renamed by the comtesse "Baronne Gay d'Oliva," the last word being apparently an anagram of Valoi), who resembled Marie Antoinette, stated that she had been engaged to play the role of queen in this comedy.
The name Goliad, probably an anagram of the name of the Mexican patriot Hidalgo (1753-1811), was first used about 1829.
The balance of opinion has, however, always inclined to the hypothesis of an anagram on the name "Arouet le jeune," or "Arouet 1.