Anagram

word

1. Noun

Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into another by the transposition of its letters. Thus Galenus becomes angelus; William Noy (attorney-general to Charles I., and a laborious man) may be turned into I moyl in law.

2. Verb

To anagrammatize.

3. Noun

a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase
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