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# anagram

noun (an anagram, anagrams)

«anagram» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anagram/#m1)
2. An anagram puzzle asks you to rearrange the letters to find a hidden word. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anagram/#m2)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anagram/#x1)
- Can you find an anagram of «stop»? Pots, spot, tops, post, opts. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anagram/#x2)
- The detective solved the anagram and found the secret name. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anagram/#x3)
- «Dormitory» is an anagram of «dirty room». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anagram/#x4)
- The crossword clue was an anagram. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anagram/#x5)
- «Act» and «cat» are anagrams of each other. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anagram/#x6)

### 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»).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «anagram» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anagram/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«anagram» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/anagram.html) on Mova free.