"anagram" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈæ.nə.ɡɹæm/ Audio: en-us-anagram.ogg [US] Forms: anagrams [plural]
enPR: ăʹnəgrăm Etymology: Late 16th century, from French anagramme, formed on Greek ἀνά (aná, “up, back”) + γράμμα (grámma, “letter”). Analyzable as ana- (“up, back”) + -gram (“letter”) Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|anagramme}} French anagramme, {{m|grc|ἀνά||up, back}} ἀνά (aná, “up, back”), {{m|grc|γράμμα||letter}} γράμμα (grámma, “letter”), {{confix|en|ana-|-gram|t1=up, back|t2=letter}} ana- (“up, back”) + -gram (“letter”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} anagram (plural anagrams)
  1. (of words) A word or phrase that is created by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase. Categories (topical): Linguistics Hyponyms: antigram, synanagram Derived forms: anagram dictionary, anagrammatic, anagrammatisation, anagrammatise, anagrammatism, anagrammatist Translations (word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase): anagram (Afrikaans), anagramë [feminine] (Albanian), جِنَاس نَاقِص (jinās nāqiṣ) [masculine] (Arabic), قَلْب (qalb) [masculine] (Arabic), անագրամա (anagrama) (Armenian), анагра́ма (anahráma) [feminine] (Belarusian), tregejad [masculine] (Breton), анагра́ма (anagráma) [feminine] (Bulgarian), anagrama [masculine] (Catalan), 異序詞 (Chinese Mandarin), 异序词 (Chinese Mandarin), 變位詞 (Chinese Mandarin), 变位词 (Chinese Mandarin), 易位詞 (Chinese Mandarin), 易位词 (Chinese Mandarin), anagram [masculine] (Czech), přesmyčka [feminine] (Czech), anagram (Danish), anagram (Dutch), letterkeer (Dutch), anagramo (Esperanto), anagramm (Estonian), anagrammi (Finnish), anagramme [feminine] (French), anagrama [masculine] (Galician), ანაგრამა (anagrama) (Georgian), Anagramm [neuter] (German), αναγραμματισμός (anagrammatismós) [masculine] (Greek), אָנַגְרָמָה (anagráma) [feminine] (Hebrew), वर्णविपर्यय (varṇaviparyay) [masculine] (Hindi), वर्णविपर्यास (varṇaviparyās) [masculine] (Hindi), anagramma (Hungarian), raðhverfa [feminine] (Icelandic), orðarugl [neuter] (Icelandic), stafabrengl [neuter] (Icelandic), stafarugl [neuter] (Icelandic), anagramo (Ido), anagramma (Interlingua), anagramma [masculine] (Italian), アナグラム (anaguramu) (Japanese), 애너그램 (aeneogeuraem) (Korean), anagramma [feminine] (Latvian), anagrama [feminine] (Lithuanian), Anagramm (Luxembourgish), анаграм (anagram) [masculine] (Macedonian), anagramma (Maltese), anagram (Norwegian), واروواژه (vâruvâže) (Persian), anagram [masculine] (Polish), anagrama [masculine] (Portuguese), anagramă [feminine] (Romanian), анагра́мма (anagrámma) [feminine] (Russian), ана̀грам [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), anàgram [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), anagram [masculine] (Slovak), anagram (Slovene), anagrama [masculine] (Spanish), anagram (Swedish), anagram (Turkish), evirmece (Turkish), анагра́ма (anahráma) [feminine] (Ukrainian), phép đảo chữ (Vietnamese), thuật đảo chữ (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-anagram-en-noun-Xmv1ipsl Disambiguation of Linguistics: 84 16 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms prefixed with ana-, English terms suffixed with -gram Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 88 12 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 90 10 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with ana-: 61 39 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -gram: 79 21
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: anagramme [obsolete]

Verb

IPA: /ˈæ.nə.ɡɹæm/ Audio: en-us-anagram.ogg [US] Forms: anagrams [present, singular, third-person], anagramming [participle, present], anagrammed [participle, past], anagrammed [past]
enPR: ăʹnəgrăm Etymology: Late 16th century, from French anagramme, formed on Greek ἀνά (aná, “up, back”) + γράμμα (grámma, “letter”). Analyzable as ana- (“up, back”) + -gram (“letter”) Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|anagramme}} French anagramme, {{m|grc|ἀνά||up, back}} ἀνά (aná, “up, back”), {{m|grc|γράμμα||letter}} γράμμα (grámma, “letter”), {{confix|en|ana-|-gram|t1=up, back|t2=letter}} ana- (“up, back”) + -gram (“letter”) Head templates: {{en-verb|++}} anagram (third-person singular simple present anagrams, present participle anagramming, simple past and past participle anagrammed)
  1. To form anagrams. Translations (Translations): anagramować [imperfective] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-anagram-en-verb-Vgw4Y630
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: anagramme [obsolete]

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "2004, Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright, Shaun of the Dead, spoken by Shaun (Simon Pegg)",
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          "code": "af",
          "lang": "Afrikaans",
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          "code": "sq",
          "lang": "Albanian",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "tags": [
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          "code": "ar",
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          "roman": "jinās nāqiṣ",
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        {
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          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "anagrama",
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          "word": "անագրամա"
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          "roman": "anahráma",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "tags": [
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        },
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          "code": "br",
          "lang": "Breton",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "tregejad"
        },
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          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "anagráma",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "анагра́ма"
        },
        {
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "anagrama"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "word": "異序詞"
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        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "word": "异序词"
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        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "word": "變位詞"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "word": "变位词"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "word": "易位詞"
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        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
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        },
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "anagram"
        },
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "přesmyčka"
        },
        {
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "word": "anagram"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "word": "anagram"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "word": "letterkeer"
        },
        {
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "word": "anagramo"
        },
        {
          "code": "et",
          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "word": "anagramm"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "word": "anagrammi"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "anagramme"
        },
        {
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "anagrama"
        },
        {
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "anagrama",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "word": "ანაგრამა"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Anagramm"
        },
        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "anagrammatismós",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "αναγραμματισμός"
        },
        {
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "anagráma",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "אָנַגְרָמָה"
        },
        {
          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "varṇaviparyay",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "वर्णविपर्यय"
        },
        {
          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "varṇaviparyās",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "वर्णविपर्यास"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "word": "anagramma"
        },
        {
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "raðhverfa"
        },
        {
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "orðarugl"
        },
        {
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "stafabrengl"
        },
        {
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "stafarugl"
        },
        {
          "code": "io",
          "lang": "Ido",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "word": "anagramo"
        },
        {
          "code": "ia",
          "lang": "Interlingua",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "word": "anagramma"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "anagramma"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "anaguramu",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "word": "アナグラム"
        },
        {
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "aeneogeuraem",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "word": "애너그램"
        },
        {
          "code": "lv",
          "lang": "Latvian",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "anagramma"
        },
        {
          "code": "lt",
          "lang": "Lithuanian",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "anagrama"
        },
        {
          "code": "lb",
          "lang": "Luxembourgish",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "word": "Anagramm"
        },
        {
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "anagram",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "анаграм"
        },
        {
          "code": "mt",
          "lang": "Maltese",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "word": "anagramma"
        },
        {
          "code": "no",
          "lang": "Norwegian",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "word": "anagram"
        },
        {
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "vâruvâže",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "word": "واروواژه"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "anagram"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "anagrama"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "anagramă"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "anagrámma",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "анагра́мма"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "ана̀грам"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "tags": [
            "Roman",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "anàgram"
        },
        {
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "anagram"
        },
        {
          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "word": "anagram"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "anagrama"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "word": "anagram"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "word": "anagram"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "word": "evirmece"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "anahráma",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "анагра́ма"
        },
        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "word": "phép đảo chữ"
        },
        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
          "word": "thuật đảo chữ"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈæ.nə.ɡɹæm/"
    },
    {
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      ],
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    }
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
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    }
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}

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        "2": "fr",
        "3": "anagramme"
      },
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        "t2": "letter"
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      "name": "confix"
    }
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      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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      "form": "anagramming",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    {
      "form": "anagrammed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
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      "form": "anagrammed",
      "tags": [
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    }
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  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "glosses": [
        "To form anagrams."
      ],
      "id": "en-anagram-en-verb-Vgw4Y630",
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        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "anagramować"
        }
      ]
    }
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈæ.nə.ɡɹæm/"
    },
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      "audio": "en-us-anagram.ogg",
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    },
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    }
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
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        "obsolete"
      ],
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    }
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}
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    "English nouns",
    "English terms borrowed from French",
    "English terms derived from French",
    "English terms prefixed with ana-",
    "English terms suffixed with -gram",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs",
    "Translation table header lacks gloss",
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    {
      "word": "anagram dictionary"
    },
    {
      "word": "anagrammatic"
    },
    {
      "word": "anagrammatisation"
    },
    {
      "word": "anagrammatise"
    },
    {
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    },
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      "word": "anagrammatist"
    }
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      },
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    },
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        "3": "",
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      "name": "m"
    },
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      "tags": [
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    {
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "2004, Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright, Shaun of the Dead, spoken by Shaun (Simon Pegg)",
          "text": "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.",
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          "word"
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          "phrase",
          "phrase"
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          "letter"
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        "(of words) A word or phrase that is created by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase."
      ],
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        "of words"
      ]
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      "ipa": "/ˈæ.nə.ɡɹæm/"
    },
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      "audio": "en-us-anagram.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/ef/En-us-anagram.ogg/En-us-anagram.ogg.mp3",
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      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
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    {
      "enpr": "ăʹnəgrăm"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "anagramme"
    }
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    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "word": "anagram"
    },
    {
      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "anagramë"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "jinās nāqiṣ",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "جِنَاس نَاقِص"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "qalb",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "قَلْب"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "anagrama",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "word": "անագրամա"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "anahráma",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "анагра́ма"
    },
    {
      "code": "br",
      "lang": "Breton",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tregejad"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "anagráma",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "анагра́ма"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "anagrama"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "word": "異序詞"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "word": "异序词"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "word": "變位詞"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "word": "变位词"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "word": "易位詞"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "word": "易位词"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "anagram"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "přesmyčka"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "word": "anagram"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "word": "anagram"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "word": "letterkeer"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "word": "anagramo"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "word": "anagramm"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "word": "anagrammi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "anagramme"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "anagrama"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "anagrama",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "word": "ანაგრამა"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Anagramm"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "anagrammatismós",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "αναγραμματισμός"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "anagráma",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "אָנַגְרָמָה"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "varṇaviparyay",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "वर्णविपर्यय"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "varṇaviparyās",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "वर्णविपर्यास"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "word": "anagramma"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "raðhverfa"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "orðarugl"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "stafabrengl"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "stafarugl"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "word": "anagramo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ia",
      "lang": "Interlingua",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "word": "anagramma"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "anagramma"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "anaguramu",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "word": "アナグラム"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "aeneogeuraem",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "word": "애너그램"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "anagramma"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "anagrama"
    },
    {
      "code": "lb",
      "lang": "Luxembourgish",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "word": "Anagramm"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "anagram",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "анаграм"
    },
    {
      "code": "mt",
      "lang": "Maltese",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "word": "anagramma"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "word": "anagram"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "vâruvâže",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "word": "واروواژه"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "anagram"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "anagrama"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "anagramă"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "anagrámma",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "анагра́мма"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ана̀грам"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "anàgram"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "anagram"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "word": "anagram"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "anagrama"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "word": "anagram"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "word": "anagram"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "word": "evirmece"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "anahráma",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "анагра́ма"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "word": "phép đảo chữ"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "word or phrase created by rearranging letters from another word or phrase",
      "word": "thuật đảo chữ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "anagram"
}

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      },
      "expansion": "γράμμα (grámma, “letter”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ana-",
        "3": "-gram",
        "t1": "up, back",
        "t2": "letter"
      },
      "expansion": "ana- (“up, back”) + -gram (“letter”)",
      "name": "confix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Late 16th century, from French anagramme, formed on Greek ἀνά (aná, “up, back”) + γράμμα (grámma, “letter”). Analyzable as ana- (“up, back”) + -gram (“letter”)",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "anagrams",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "anagramming",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "anagrammed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "anagrammed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "++"
      },
      "expansion": "anagram (third-person singular simple present anagrams, present participle anagramming, simple past and past participle anagrammed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "ana‧gram"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To form anagrams."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈæ.nə.ɡɹæm/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-anagram.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/ef/En-us-anagram.ogg/En-us-anagram.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/En-us-anagram.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "ăʹnəgrăm"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "anagramme"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "anagramować"
    }
  ],
  "word": "anagram"
}

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