anagram

English

Alternative forms

• anagramme (obsolete)

Etymology

Late 16th century, either from Middle French anagramme or Latin anagramma, formed on Ancient Greek ἀνά (aná, “up, back”) + γράμμα (grámma, “letter”). Analyzable as ana- (“up, back”) +‎ -gram (“letter”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæ.nə.ɡɹæm/, enPR: ăʹnəgrăm

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: ana‧gram

Noun

Examples
silent is an anagram of listen

anagram (plural anagrams)

1. (of words) A word or phrase that is created by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.

   Hyponyms: antigram, synanagram

   Coordinate terms: alphagram, palindrome

   • 2004, Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright, Shaun of the Dead, spoken by Shaun (Simon Pegg):

     As Mr. Sloan always says, there is no "I" in "team", but there is an "I" in "pie". And there's an "I" in "meat pie". Anagram of "meat" is "team"… I don't know what he's talking about.

Derived terms

• anagram dictionary
• anagramise, anagramize
• anagrammer
• anagrammist
• anamonic
• aptagram
• blanagram
• Reaganagram

 

Related terms

• anagrammatic
• anagrammatisation, anagrammatization
• anagrammatise, anagrammatize
• anagrammatism
• anagrammatist

 

Translations

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

• Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
• Afrikaans: anagram
• Albanian: anagramë f
• Arabic: جِنَاس نَاقِص m (jinās nāqiṣ), قَلْب (ar) m (qalb)
• Armenian: անագրամա (hy) (anagrama)
• Belarusian: анагра́ма f (anahráma)
• Breton: tregejad (br) m
• Bulgarian: анагра́ма f (anagráma)
• Catalan: anagrama (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: please add this translation if you can

  Mandarin: 異序詞 / 异序词, 變位詞 / 变位词, 易位詞 / 易位词

• Czech: anagram (cs) m, přesmyčka (cs) f
• Danish: anagram (da)
• Dutch: anagram (nl), letterkeer (nl)
• Esperanto: anagramo
• Estonian: anagramm (et)
• Finnish: anagrammi (fi)
• French: anagramme (fr) f
• Galician: anagrama (gl) m
• Georgian: ანაგრამა (anagrama)
• German: Anagramm (de) n
• Greek: αναγραμματισμός (el) m (anagrammatismós)
• Hebrew: אָנַגְרָמָה (he) f (anagráma)
• Hindi: वर्णविपर्यय (hi) m (varṇaviparyay), वर्णविपर्यास m (varṇaviparyās)
• Hungarian: anagramma (hu)
• Icelandic: raðhverfa f, orðarugl n, stafabrengl n, stafarugl n
• Ido: anagramo (io)
• Interlingua: anagramma
• Italian: anagramma (it) m
• Japanese: アナグラム (ja) (anaguramu)
• Korean: 애너그램 (ko) (aeneogeuraem)
• Latvian: anagramma f
• Lithuanian: anagrama f
• Luxembourgish: Anagramm
• Macedonian: анаграм m (anagram)
• Maltese: anagramma
• Norwegian: anagram (no)
• Persian: واروواژه (vâruvâže)
• Polish: anagram (pl) m
• Portuguese: anagrama (pt) m
• Romanian: anagramă (ro) f
• Russian: анагра́мма (ru) f (anagrámma)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ана̀грам m

  Roman: anàgram (sh) m

• Slovak: anagram m
• Slovene: anagram (sl)
• Spanish: anagrama (es) m
• Swedish: anagram (sv)
• Turkish: anagram (tr), evirmece (tr)
• Ukrainian: анагра́ма f (anahráma)
• Vietnamese: phép đảo chữ, thuật đảo chữ

Verb

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

1. To form anagrams.

Translations

Translations

• Polish: anagramować impf

Further reading

• anagram on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• argaman

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from French anagramme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈanaɡram]
• Hyphenation: ana‧gram

Noun

anagram m inan

1. anagram

   Synonym: (much less common) přesmyčka f

Declension

Declension of anagram (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	anagram	anagramy
genitive	anagramu	anagramů
dative	anagramu	anagramům
accusative	anagram	anagramy
vocative	anagrame	anagramy
locative	anagramu	anagramech
instrumental	anagramem	anagramy

Danish

Noun

anagram n (singular definite anagrammet, plural indefinite anagrammer)

1. anagram

Declension

Declension of anagram

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	anagram	anagrammet	anagrammer	anagrammerne
genitive	anagrams	anagrammets	anagrammers	anagrammernes

References

• “anagram” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French anagramme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌaː.naːˈɣrɑm/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ana‧gram

Noun

anagram n (plural anagrammen, diminutive anagrammetje n)

1. anagram

   Synonym: letterkeer

Irish

Etymology

From French anagramme, from Ancient Greek ἀνά (aná, “up, back”) + γράμμα (grámma, “letter”).

Noun

anagram m (genitive singular anagraim, nominative plural anagraim)

1. anagram

Declension

Declension of anagram (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative anagram anagraim vocative a anagraim a anagrama genitive anagraim anagram dative anagram anagraim forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-anagram na hanagraim genitive an anagraim na n-anagram dative leis an anagram don anagram leis na hanagraim

Mutation

Mutated forms of anagram

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
anagram	n-anagram	hanagram	t-anagram

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “anagram”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “anagram”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024

Polish

Alternative forms

• anagrama, anagramma, anagramat (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from French anagramme. By surface analysis, ana- +‎ -gram. First attested in 1677–1694.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈna.ɡram/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɡram
• Syllabification: a‧na‧gram

Noun

anagram m inan

1. (linguistics) anagram [with genitive or od (+ genitive) ‘of what’]

   anagram nazwiska ― anagram of a surname

   anagram imienia ― anagram of a first name

   anagram słowa ― anagram of a word

   anagram nazwy ― anagram of a name (not a person's)

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

Derived terms

adjective

• anagramowy

 

verbs

• anagramować impf

 

Further reading

• anagram in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• anagram in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “anagramma”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “anagram, anagramat, anagrama”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 33
• anagram in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /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

Swedish

Etymology

ana- +‎ -gram

Noun

anagram n

1. anagram

Declension

Declension of anagram

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

References

• anagram in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• anagram in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• anagram in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• gamarna, magarna