a word or phrase that you can make from another word or phrase by putting the letters in a different order. For example ‘mean’ is an anagram of ‘name’.
Synonyms and related words
Types of word or phrase
acrostic
adjacency pair
Americanism
anagram
noun countable
US /ˈænəˌɡræm/
Word Forms
singular
anagram
plural
anagrams
DEFINITIONS1
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a word or phrase that you can make from another word or phrase by putting the letters in a different order. For example “mean” is an anagram of “name.”