ALa word or phrase that is made by changing the order of the letters in another word or phrase 變位詞(組)〔改變某個詞或短語的字母順序後構成的新詞或短語〕
‘Silent’ is an anagram of ‘listen’.
silent是listen的變位詞。
Examples from the Corpus
anagram• Chambers suggested-Learlington, as an anagram of Nora Telling.• Florida is an anagram of Rid Of Al.• I decided on an anagram, Neela.• Indeed deliberately making all the trickynames into anagrams may be an easier way to work through the map for non-Gaelic speakers.• What chance have we lowland city folk got when we're confronted with maps covered in names that look like anagrams?• Apart from Holsten Pils, which is obviously, mind-shatteringly brilliant, I mean, anagrams, who'd have thought it?• Lousycrosswordtoday, clever-clever, too many obviousanagrams.
Originanagram
(1500-1600)Frenchanagramme, from Greekanagrammatismos, from ana- ( → ANACHRONISM) + gramma“letter”