what's an 'anagram'?

Answer 1

Where the letters of a word are all jumbled up and you have to rearrange the letters to make the word.

Answer 2

An anagram (Greek ana- = "back" or "again", and graphein = "to write") is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce other words, using all the original letters exactly once. Anagrams are often expressed in the form of an equation, with the equals symbol (=) separating the original subject and the resulting anagram. ‘Earth = heart’ is an example of a simple anagram expressed in that way. In a more advanced, sophisticated form of anagramming, the aim is to ‘discover’ a result that has a linguistic meaning that defines or comments on the original subject in a humorous or ironic way; e.g., Roll in the hay = Thrill a honey (discovered by Tony Crafter). When the subject and the resulting anagram form a complete sentence, a tilde (~) is commonly used instead of an equal sign; e.g., Semolina ~ is no meal.

Answer 3

An anagram (Greek ana- = "back" or "again", and graphein = "to write") is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce other words, using all the original letters exactly once. Anagrams are often expressed in the form of an equation, with the equals symbol (=) separating the original subject and the resulting anagram. ‘Earth = heart’ is an example of a simple anagram expressed in that way. In a more advanced, sophisticated form of anagramming, the aim is to ‘discover’ a result that has a linguistic meaning etc

Answer 4

An anagram is for example, you might have the name "Tim Taylor", if you rearrange the letters of the name, you might get the word "mortality". You might know that the word "mortality" is an anagram for the name "Tim Taylor". Another example goes something like this, if you rearrange the letters of the name "Jill Taylor", you might get the two words "jolly" and "trail" to form the phrase "jolly trail". There is also another example, when you rearrange the letters of the word "heart", you might get the word that is also the name of our planet, "Earth". Very simple as a piece of cake!

Answer 5

an anagram is a word or phrase that is formed from the letters of another word...

other form of anagram are those which when turned 180 degrees still read the same...(eg.angels and demons- illuminati)

Answer 6

# A word that is spelled with the exact same letters as another word. Example: RIDES is an anagram of SIRED and vice versa.
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# Literally, this means the letters of a word are read backwarrds. Can also refer to the change of one word into another by the transposition of letters. Often, the letters of a word read out of order to discover hidden meaning.
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# Word formed by rearranging the letters of another word; 'lager' is an anagram of 'regal', as too is 'large'.
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# read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning
# a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase
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# An anagram (Greek ana- = "back" or "again", and graphein = "to write") is the result of permuting the letters of a word or words in such a manner as to produce other words that possess linguistic meaning. The meaning of the new word so created is seen in the context of or in contrast to that of the old word so as to create humorous or interesting associations between the two. Anagrams are a type of word play.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anagram

Answer 7

An anagram is a word or sentence that, after the letters are rearranged, spells another word or sentence. For example "Bart" is an anagram for "Brat" (which is how Matt Groening chose the name Bart Simpson).

Answer 8

NOUN:
1. A word or phrase formed by reordering the letters of another word or phrase, such as satin to stain.

2. anagrams (used with a sing. verb) A game in which players form words from a group of randomly picked letters.

EX:RACE would become ACRE or CARE

Answer 9

an anagram is a word whose component letters can be rearranged to form another word, eg:

role --> lore
stops --> posts
etc. etc.

hope that helps

Answer 10

An anagram is a gran'ma. Sweet and grey-haired.

Answer 11

an anagram spells somthing one way and when you turn it around it says another thing