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# anagram

«anagram» in Mova's school dictionary: **a word or phrase made by mixing up all the letters of…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an anagram, anagrams)

### meaning for a pupil

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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anagram/#m2)

### sense 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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anagram/#x2)
- The detective solved the anagram and found the secret name. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anagram/#x3)
- «Dormitory» is an anagram of «dirty room». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anagram/#x4)
- The crossword clue was an anagram. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anagram/#x5)
- «Act» and «cat» are anagrams of each other. [tree →](https://md.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»).

### In the corpora

- [An anagram uses exactly the same letters in a new order: LISTEN becomes SILENT, and DORMITORY becomes DIRTY ROOM.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/56-olympiad-word-puzzles-anagrams-palindromes-word-ladders/1/)
- [An anagram uses all the letters of a word or phrase, each exactly once, in a new order.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/56-olympiad-word-puzzles-anagrams-palindromes-word-ladders/5/)
- [DORMITORY is an anagram of DIRTY ROOM.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/56-olympiad-word-puzzles-anagrams-palindromes-word-ladders/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «anagram» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anagram/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.