Synonyms for anagram

Grammar : Noun

Spell : an-uh-gram

Phonetic Transcription : ˈæn əˌgræm

Définition of anagram

Origin : 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 grammar). Related: Anagrammatical; anagrammatically.

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Example sentences :

Lucius Barettus is an anagram for the real name Albertus Curtius.
Extract from : « The Story of Eclipses » by George Chambers

He announced this also by an anagram, and waited till it should become a crescent, which it did.
Extract from : « Pioneers of Science » by Oliver Lodge

He will send me, in response to the demand, as Mlle. Roland,—an anagram of my own name.
Extract from : « The Master of Warlock » by George Cary Eggleston

Among the moderns, the French have most cultivated the anagram.
Extract from : « Poetical Ingenuities and Eccentricities » by Various

The signature of this letter is an anagram of my ancestor's name.
Extract from : « Passages From the English Notebooks, Volume 2 » by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Name an anagram of Anthericum, from , supposed to have been the Asphodel.
Extract from : « The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States » by Asa Gray

From Coote he gathered something of the nature of Anagrams and Anagram parties.
Extract from : « Kipps » by H. G. Wells

Beyond thinking his own anagram might be Cuyps, he hadn't a notion.
Extract from : « Kipps » by H. G. Wells

When Kipps was clear what an anagram meant, Coote came to the second heading, the Tea.
Extract from : « Kipps » by H. G. Wells

What could he say to explain his absence from the Anagram Tea?
Extract from : « Kipps » by H. G. Wells

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