anagram

anagram is a 7-letter English word with 4 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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.
2. transitive verb. To anagrammatize.
3. noun. a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase
4. verb. read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning

   Synonyms: anagrammatise, anagrammatize

Synonyms

anagrammatise, anagrammatize

Common word forms

anagrams, anagrammed, anagramming

Words from these letters

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