ALa word or phrase that is made by changing the order of the letters in another word or phrase 变位词(组)〔改变某个词或短语的字母顺序后构成的新词或短语〕
‘Silent’ is an anagram of ‘listen’.
silent是listen的变位词。
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”