Anagram vs. Antigram — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Anagram and Antigram
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Anagram
An anagram is a word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of a different word or phrase, typically using all the original letters exactly once. For example, the word anagram itself can be rearranged into nag a ram, also the word binary into brainy and the word adobe into abode.
Antigram
Either of a pair of anagrams with opposite meanings.
Anagram
A word, phrase, or name formed by rearranging the letters of another, such as spar, formed from rasp.
Antigram
An anagram that means the opposite of the original word or phrase;
`restful' is the antigram of `fluster'
Anagram
A word or phrase formed by reordering the letters of another word or phrase, such as satin to stain.
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Anagram
Anagrams (used with a sing. verb) A game in which players form words from a group of randomly picked letters.
Anagram
(of words) A word or phrase that is created by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.
Anagram
To form anagrams.
Anagram
Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change of one word or phrase into another by the transposition of its letters. Thus Galenus becomes angelus; William Noy (attorney-general to Charles I., and a laborious man) may be turned into I moyl in law.
Anagram
To anagrammatize.
Some of these anagramed his name, Benlowes, into Benevolus.
Anagram
A word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase
Anagram
Read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning
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