anagram
pronunciation
How to pronounce anagram in British English:
UK [ˈænəgræm]
How to pronounce anagram in American English:
US [ˈænəˌɡræm]
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- Noun:
- a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase
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- Verb:
- read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning
Word Origin
- anagram (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 -gram). Related: Anagrammatical; anagrammatically.
Example
- 1. Is it another anagram ? Can you break it ?
- 2. Ls it another anagram ? Can you break it ?
- 3. Related to anagrams or containing or making an anagram .
- 4. That is an anagram of the name with which he was born , sanche armand gabriel de gramont .
- 5. The article had a comment from lil faroop , an anagram of april fool .