meaning of anagram
1. 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. To anagrammatize.
3. a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase
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