anagram

anagram has 4 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.

Definitions

• n.. Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into another by the transposition of its letters. Thus Galenus becomes angelus; William Noy (attorney-general to Charles I., and a laborious man) may be turned into I moyl in law.
• v. t.. To anagrammatize.
• n.. a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase
• v.. read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning