what is an anagram?

Question

I would like an example if you don't mind. I'm not sure I'm understanding what an anagram is. Thank you.

Answer 1

Special Kinds of Anagrams
One word anagrams (where a single word is anagrammed into another single word) are sometimes referred to by wordplay specialists as transpositions. For example, "orchestra" is a transposition of "carthorse".
Some anagrams are created by perfectly reversing the order of the letters. Examples include "Naomi"->"I moan.", "Evian" -> "Naive" etc. There is no completely established word for this type of anagram but the author of this site is trying to establish the term anadrome for these. The word is completely sound in terms of its derivation (from the ancient Greek "ana" meaning "back" and "dromos" meaning "running") and was used by Douglas St. Paul Barnard in his 1963 book "Anatomy of the Crossword".
There are even anagrams which don't involve any rearranging of the sequence of letters at all: merely the insertion or deletion of spaces. Some great examples include "Psychotherapist" -> "Psycho, the rapist" and "The IRS" -> "Theirs!". These have been referred to as redividers though the term can cause confusion as the word "redivider" is itself a palindrome.
Many books on wordplay also include the term antigram. This is an anagram where the meaning of the anagram is considered opposite in some way to the subject. A classic example is "funeral"->"Real fun!".
Other anagram-related words and parts-of-speech
The verb for making anagrams is also anagram (which is both transitive and intransitive). e.g. "I spent my evening anagramming.", "I anagrammed 'Virginia Bottomley' into 'I'm an evil tory bigot'", "The art of anagramming", "I love to anagram the names of my friends."

For some reason almost all dictionaries say that the verb is anagrammatize and most say that anagram isn't even available as an alternative. However, they are wrong (or out of date) as a simple search on Google for the relative frequencies of "anagramming" and "anagrammatizing" will show.

Answer 2

Alice Amy Rhea Elisha Annette Theodora Valarie Elaine Amelia Amélie Melanie Mariah Anneli Caroline Lorena Carlie Clara Hester Lisa Mary Alec Lucas Andre Ari Ronald Orlando Corey Leroy Sloane Ethan Adrien Duane Blake Booker Brady Emery Jonah Leon Theodore Thelma Sylvia Mario Roman Ares Norah Rosa Rose Isabel Bea Dean Dale Diana Aiden Elisa Anne Christina Lacy Cole Darlene Leah Eliott Neal Irene Jane Silas Liam

Answer 3

An anagram is a word that has been made from scrambling the letters of another word. For example, "Lacie" is an anagram of "Alice".

Answer 4

An anagram is a word that when the letters are rearranged can form another.

Answer 5

*Anagram a word or phrase that is made by chasing the order of the letters in another word or phrase.
E.g: 'Silent' is an anagram of 'listen'.

Answer 6

An anagram is a word that uses all the same letters used in another word. Like "draw" and "ward".

Answer 7

An anagram is a word mixed up to be another word... I think. Example: "was" could be mixed up to be "saw".

uh... actually i think im wrong

Answer 8

earth = heart

Answer 9

Devil=== lived