anagram

«anagram» in Mova's school dictionary: a word or phrase made by mixing up all the letters of… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (an anagram, anagrams)

meaning for a pupil

1) An anagram is a word or phrase made by mixing up all the letters of another word or phrase: «listen» is an anagram of «silent». tree →

2) An anagram puzzle asks you to rearrange the letters to find a hidden word. tree →

sense in the lessons

In English lessons and olympiad puzzles, anagrams train spelling and thinking: «earth» → «heart», «dormitory» → «dirty room». Crosswords and word games use them. In maths, the number of ways to arrange letters is counted with permutations: «cat» has 3 × 2 × 1 = 6 arrangements. Phrases: «solve the anagram», «an anagram of», «anagram puzzle».

examples

• «Listen» is an anagram of «silent». tree →
• Can you find an anagram of «stop»? Pots, spot, tops, post, opts. tree →
• The detective solved the anagram and found the secret name. tree →
• «Dormitory» is an anagram of «dirty room». tree →
• The crossword clue was an anagram. tree →
• «Act» and «cat» are anagrams of each other. tree →

note

Use «an»: «an anagram». A real anagram uses every letter exactly once. Maths: a word with n different letters can be arranged in n × (n−1) × … × 1 ways, but only a few of them are real words. Not the same as a palindrome (reads the same backwards: «level»).

In the corpora

• An anagram uses exactly the same letters in a new order: LISTEN becomes SILENT, and DORMITORY becomes DIRTY ROOM.
• An anagram uses all the letters of a word or phrase, each exactly once, in a new order.
• DORMITORY is an anagram of DIRTY ROOM.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «anagram» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.