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How to use anagram in a sentence

18 example sentences · noun, verb

Anagram means a word or phrase that is created by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase. Example: “You've got thirty seconds to solve the anagram, starting now. Go!”

More sentences with anagram

  • You've got thirty seconds to solve the anagram, starting now. Go!From the entry go
  • Two words are anagrams if they are made up of the same multiset of letters.From the entry multiset
  • Although some word games, such as anagrams and crosswords, can be completed alone, others such as charades are designed for groups.From the entry word game
  • Goaded by Priol’s anagram, Lambert doubted the Shaky Isles’ equally rickety claims on the lamington.2021 April 14, David Astle, “Lamington wars: claiming an Australian invention really takes the cake”, in The Age. From the entry lamington
  • "working" here does double duty as an anagram indicator and as a main constituent of the definition.2015 January 1, B. J. Holmes, Pocket Crossword Dictionary, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry double duty
  • 'Wild' is an anagram indicator showing that the letters of 'danger' have to be rearranged.2011 December 9, Collins, Crossword Secrets (Collins Little Book), HarperCollins UK, →ISBN, page 6. From the entry indicator
  • The games are a bit archaically presented, but they include palindromes, acrostics, higgledy-piggledies, anagrams, etc.1994, Herbert Kohl, Masters' Word Game Collection, page 249. From the entry higgledy-piggledy
  • I find this anagram fascinating, a message from the god of language.1986 10, “Spy”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 61. From the entry double duty
  • The longest non-scientific English words which can form anagrams are the 17-letter transpositions "misrepresentation" and "representationism".1978, Norris McWhirter (editor), Guinness Book of World Records 1978, page 205. From the entry non-scientific
  • Change the order of the letters, and you get a new meaning: canoe is never mistaken for its anagram ocean.2019 January 17, RJ Andrews, Info We Trust: How to Inspire the World with Data, page 53. From the entry levidrome
  • Galileo had announced the discovery through an anagram Kepler published in the latter work, unsuccessfully trying to solve it.2015, Massimo Bucciantini, Michele Camerota, Franco Giudice, Galileo’s Telescope: A European Story, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page…. From the entry tricorporal
  • Most setters do try to avoid indirect anagrams, though.2012 June 13, Denise Sutherland, Solving Cryptic Crosswords For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 105. From the entry indirect anagram
  • Such a sin is known as the indirect anagram.2012 November 1, David Astle, Puzzled: Secrets and clues from a life in words, Profile Books, →ISBN. From the entry indirect anagram
  • Quite a big percentage of the anagrams posted here get nommed - IMO it should only be around 20% or so.2001, William Tunstall-Pedoe, “problems/suggestions for this group”, in alt.anagrams (Usenet). From the entry nom
  • The two types of clue which everyone should aim to solve at first reading are anagrams and hiddens.1987, The Listener. From the entry hidden
  • One of the most admired and best-known crossword setters in the English language, Graham was known for his idiosyncratic style and extended anagrams.2013 November 26, John Plunkett, “Rev John Graham, aka crossword setter Araucaria, dies aged 92”, in The Guardian. From the entry setter
  • Much like Cappelletto, his American child prodigy counterpart, Nyman has a prodigious, possibly eidetic memory, uncanny anagramming abilities, and better strategic vision than his peers.2001, Stefan Fatsis, Word Freak - Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players, page 246. From the entry eidetic memory
  • By anagramming letters and altering the order of words, he produces two quatrains, which we content merely to quote as examples of gadzookery.1957, William F. Friedman, Elizabeth S. Friedman, The Shakespearean Ciphers Examined, Reprint edition, Cambridge Univ Press, published…. From the entry gadzookery

Meaning of anagram

  1. noun A word or phrase that is created by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.
  2. verb To form anagrams.

Full definition of anagram

Questions about anagram in a sentence

How do you use anagram in a sentence?
Anagram is used as a noun and verb. For example: “You've got thirty seconds to solve the anagram, starting now. Go!”
What is a short sentence with anagram?
“Most setters do try to avoid indirect anagrams, though.”
What does anagram mean?
Anagram means a word or phrase that is created by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: anagram (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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