anagram
noun
a word, phrase, or sentence formed from another by rearranging its letters.
anagrammatic
-
a word derived from
anagram.
Example Sentences
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In Bucharest, where he arrived in 1945, Paul Antschel became Paul Celan, the new name an anagrammatic rebirth from the Romanian spelling of “Ancel.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Being a former good kid — and, like Seth, an aficionado of “the puzzleistic arts” — I began to see the character and the show in anagrammatic terms.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2022
That kind of anagrammatic wordplay comes out of my experience as someone who learned English as my second language.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2022
The article included a long excursus on the pointlessness of looking for anagrammatic ciphers; a note revealed that the statement itself was an anagram.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 30, 2016
“Imagine a situation” was a game she'd invented where Colin found the anagrams and then Katherine imagined an anagrammatic situation.
From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green
