Anagramming
a word, phrase, or sentence formed from another by rearranging its letters: “angel” is an anagram of “glean.”.
anagrams, (used with a singular verb) a game in which the players build words by transposing and, often, adding letters.
to form (the letters of a text) into a secret message by rearranging them.
to rearrange (the letters of a text) so as to discover a secret message.
noun
a word or phrase the letters of which can be rearranged into another word or phrase
n.
transposition of letters in a word so as to form another, 1580s, from french anagramme or modern latin anagramma (16c.), both from greek anagrammatizein “transpose letters,” from ana- “up, back” (see ana-) + gramma (genitive grammatos) “letter” (see grammar). related: anagrammatical; anagrammatically.
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