anagram

For anagrams in Wiktionary, see Wiktionary:Anagrams

English

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• anagramme (obsolete)

Etymology

Late 16th century, from French anagramme, formed on Greek ἀνά (ana, “up, back”) + γράμμα (gramma, “letter”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ăʹnəgrăm, IPA: /ˈæ.nə.ɡɹæm/

Noun

anagram (plural anagrams)

1. (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".

Derived terms

• anagrammatic
• anagrammatise
• anagrammatism
• anagrammatist

Translations

word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase

• Afrikaans: anagram (af)
• Arabic: جناس ناقص (ar) (khinaas naaqiS) m, قلب (ar) (qalb) m
• Bulgarian: анаграма (bg) (anagrama)
• Catalan: anagrama (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: trad. 變形詞, simpl. 变形词 (pinyin: biànxíngcí)

• Czech: anagram (cs) m, přesmyčka (cs) f
• Danish: anagram (da)
• Dutch: anagram (nl), letterkeer (nl)
• Esperanto: anagramo (eo)
• Finnish: anagrammi (fi)
• French: anagramme (fr) f
• German: Anagramm (de) n
• Greek: αναγραμματισμός (el) (anagrammatismós) m
• Hebrew: אנגרמה (he)
• Hungarian: anagramma (hu)
• Icelandic: raðhverfa (is) f, orðarugl (is) n, stafabrengl (is) n, stafarugl (is) n
• Ido: anagramo (io)

• Interlingua: anagramma (ia)
• Italian: anagramma (it) m
• Japanese: アナグラム (ja) (anaguramu)
• Korean: 아나그램 (ko) (anageuraem)
• Luxembourgish: Anagramm (lb)
• Maltese: anagramma (mt)
• Norwegian: anagram (no)
• Persian: واروواژه (fa) (vâruvâže)
• Polish: anagram (pl) m
• Portuguese: anagrama (pt) m
• Russian: анаграмма (ru) (anagrámma) f
• Serbo-Croatian: anagram (sh) m
• Slovene: anagram (sl)
• Spanish: anagrama (es) m
• Swedish: anagram (sv)
• Turkish: anagram (tr), çevrik kelime (tr), çevrik sözcük (tr), evirmece (tr)
• Ukrainian: анаграма (uk) (anahrama) f

See also

• alphagram
• palindrome

Verb

anagram (third-person singular simple present anagrams, present participle anagramming, simple past and past participle anagrammed)

1. To form anagrams.

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Czech

Noun

anagram m

1. anagram

Synonyms

• přesmyčka f (much less common)

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /aˈn̪aɡram/

• Audio

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Noun

anagram m

1. anagram

Declension

    declension of anagram

	singular	plural
nominative	anagram	anagramy
genitive	anagramu	anagramów
dative	anagramowi	anagramom
accusative	anagram	anagramy
instrumental	anagramem	anagramami
locative	anagramie	anagramach
vocative	anagramie	anagramy

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /anǎɡram/
• Hyphenation: a‧na‧gram

Noun

anàgram m (Cyrillic spelling ана̀грам)

1. anagram

Declension

    declension of anagram

	singular	plural
nominative	anagram	anagrami
genitive	anagrama	anagrama
dative	anagramu	anagramima
accusative	anagram	anagrame
vocative	anagrame	anagrami
locative	anagramu	anagramima
instrumental	anagramom	anagramima

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Swedish

Etymology

ana- + -gram

Noun

anagram n

1. anagram

Declension

Declension of anagram

	singular		plural
Neuter	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	anagram	anagrammet	anagram	anagrammen
genitive	anagrams	anagrammets	anagrams	anagrammens