anagram
English
Alternative forms
- anagramme (obsolete)
Etymology
Late 16th century, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French anagramme, formed on Greek ἀνά (aná, “up, back”) + γράμμα (grámma, “letter”). Analyzable as ana- (“up, back”) + -gram (“letter”)
Pronunciation
Noun
anagram (plural anagrams)
- (of words) A word or phrase that is created by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.
- The word "silent" is an anagram of "listen".
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
Translations
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Further reading
Verb
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- To form anagrams.
Anagrams
Czech
Noun
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Synonyms
- přesmyčka f (much less common)
Danish
Noun
anagram n (singular definite anagrammet, plural indefinite anagrammer)
Declension
neuter gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | anagram | anagrammet | anagrammer | anagrammerne |
genitive | anagrams | anagrammets | anagrammers | anagrammernes |
References
- “anagram” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French anagramme.
Pronunciation
Noun
anagram n (plural anagrammen, diminutive anagrammetje n)
- anagram
- Synonym: letterkeer
Irish
Etymology
From French anagramme, from Ancient Greek ἀνά (aná, “up, back”) + γράμμα (grámma, “letter”).
Noun
anagram m (genitive singular anagraim, nominative plural anagraim)
Declension
Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Mutation
Irish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
anagram | n-anagram | hanagram | t-anagram |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “anagram”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- “anagram”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
Polish
Pronunciation
Noun
anagram m inan
Declension
singular | plural | |
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nominative | anagram | anagramy |
genitive | anagramu | anagramów |
dative | anagramowi | anagramom |
accusative | anagram | anagramy |
instrumental | anagramem | anagramami |
locative | anagramie | anagramach |
vocative | anagramie | anagramy |
Further reading
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
Noun
anàgram m (Cyrillic spelling ана̀грам)
Declension
singular | plural | |
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nominative | anagram | anagrami |
genitive | anagrama | anagrama |
dative | anagramu | anagramima |
accusative | anagram | anagrame |
vocative | anagrame | anagrami |
locative | anagramu | anagramima |
instrumental | anagramom | anagramima |
Swedish
Etymology
Noun
anagram n
Declension
Declension of anagram | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | anagram | anagrammet | anagram | anagrammen |
Genitive | anagrams | anagrammets | anagrams | anagrammens |
Anagrams
- English terms derived from French
- English terms prefixed with ana-
- English terms suffixed with -gram
- English 3-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English words prefixed with ana-
- en:Linguistics
- Danish lemmas
- Danish nouns
- Danish neuter nouns
- Dutch terms borrowed from French
- Dutch terms derived from French
- Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation
- Dutch terms with audio links
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch nouns
- Dutch nouns with plural in -en
- Dutch neuter nouns
- Irish terms derived from French
- Irish terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Irish lemmas
- Irish nouns
- Irish masculine nouns
- Irish first-declension nouns
- Polish 3-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Polish terms with audio links
- Polish lemmas
- Polish nouns
- Polish masculine nouns
- Polish inanimate nouns
- Serbo-Croatian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Serbo-Croatian lemmas
- Serbo-Croatian nouns
- Serbo-Croatian masculine nouns
- Swedish terms prefixed with ana-
- Swedish terms suffixed with -gram
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish neuter nouns