Found 2 items, similar to anagram.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: anagram anagram n : a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase anagram v : read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning [syn: anagrammatize, anagrammatise]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Anagram Anagram \An"a*gram\ ([a^]n"[.a]*gr[a^]m), n. [F. anagramme, LL. anagramma, fr. Gr. 'ana` back, again + gra`fein to write. See Graphic.] Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change of 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. [1913 Webster] Anagram \An"a*gram\, v. t. To anagrammatize. [1913 Webster] Some of these anagramed his name, Benlowes, into Benevolus. --Warburton. [1913 Webster]