Anagram
English Meaning
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.
- A word or phrase formed by reordering the letters of another word or phrase, such as satin to stain.
- A game in which players form words from a group of randomly picked letters.