Definitions for anagram

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anagram an·a·gram

Spelling: [an-uh-gram]

IPA: /ˈæn əˌgræm/

Anagram is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 98 anagrams from letters in anagram (aaagmnr).

Definitions for anagram

noun

1. a word, phrase, or sentence formed from another by rearranging its letters: .
2. anagrams, (used with a singular verb) a game in which the players build words by transposing and, often, adding letters.

verb (used with object)

1. to form (the letters of a text) into a secret message by rearranging them.
2. to rearrange (the letters of a text) so as to discover a secret message.

Origin of anagram

1580-90; probably Middle French anagramme New Latin anagramma. See ana-, -gram¹

Examples for anagram

[From The Daily Beast's own Brian Ries] Hi Ron Paul your name is an anagram for "Our Plan."

He announced this also by an anagram, and waited till it should become a crescent, which it did.

He will send me, in response to the demand, as Mlle. Roland,—an anagram of my own name.

Among the moderns, the French have most cultivated the anagram.

Name an anagram of Anthericum, from , supposed to have been the Asphodel.

Even the title of the film is an anagram of “Truths Denials.”

From Coote he gathered something of the nature of anagrams and anagram parties.

Lucius Barettus is an anagram for the real name Albertus Curtius.

When Kipps was clear what an anagram meant, Coote came to the second heading, the Tea.

The signature of this letter is an anagram of my ancestor's name.