Anagram Definition
ănə-grăm
anagrams
noun
anagrams
A word or phrase formed by reordering the letters of another word or phrase, such as satin to stain.
American Heritage
A word or phrase made from another by rearranging its letters (Ex.: now → won, dread → adder)
Webster's New World
A game in which players form words from a group of randomly picked letters.
American Heritage
A game whose object is to make words by arranging letters from a common pool or by forming anagrams from other words.
Webster's New World
(of words) A word or phrase that is created by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.
The word "silent" is an anagram of "listen".
Wiktionary
Origin of Anagram
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New Latin anagramma from Greek anagrammatismos from anagrammatizein to rearrange letters in a word ana- from bottom to top ana– gramma grammat- letter gerbh- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Late 16th century, from French anagramme, formed on Greek ἀνά (ana, “up, back”) + γράμμα (gramma, “letter”).
From Wiktionary
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