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# anagrams

«anagrams» in Mova's school dictionary: **Words or phrases made by changing the order of the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (anagram, anagrams — this is the plural)

### meaning for a pupil

Words or phrases made by changing the order of the letters of another word or phrase, using every letter once, like «listen» and «silent». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anagrams/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In English lessons and puzzles, anagrams are a word game and appear in crosswords and spelling bees. In olympiad puzzles you may find anagrams of names or hidden words. Phrases: solve anagrams, an anagram of.

### examples

- «Listen» and «silent» are anagrams. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anagrams/#x1)
- «Dormitory» is an anagram of «dirty room». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anagrams/#x2)
- We solved anagrams in the puzzle club. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anagrams/#x3)
- Make anagrams of the word «stop»: pots, tops, spot, opts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anagrams/#x4)
- Crosswords often use anagrams as clues. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anagrams/#x5)
- My name has funny anagrams. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anagrams/#x6)

### note

This form is the plural of «anagram». An anagram must use exactly the same letters, the same number of times. Spaces and capital letters are usually ignored.

### Trees and pragmatics

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