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An example of an anagram is the word listen, which can be rearranged to spell silent.
anagram = a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase

An example of an anagram is the phrase "The Morse Code, which can be rearranged to spell "Here come dots.

Few people realized that anagrams, despite being a trite modern amusement, had a rich history of sacred symbolism. (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

I shift the words around, trying to form a sentence that makes sense, and when that fails, I move the letters around to see if each one might be an anagram for something else.† (source) Marie Lu, Legend, 2011

The word: she tried to prevent it sounding in her thoughts, and yet it danced through them obscenely, a typographical demon, juggling vague, insinuating anagrams—an uncle and a nut, the Latin for next, an Old English king attempting to turn back the tide.† (source) Ian McEwan, Atonement, 2001

I heard it's an anagram for Ratner Tolb.† (source) Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, 2012

Anagram!† (source) Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake, 2003

A parable of the soul, as his Latin teacher had pointed out so sententiously, Amina being a crude anagram for anima.† (source) Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace, 1996

With more than enough time to kill, I started in again—rearranging them, trying to create anagrams, substituting different letters for others.† (source)

Hema pulled out the telegram more than once, studying the letters, looking for a hopeful anagram.† (source)

They were all masters of checkers and chess and bridge and cribbage and dominoes and anagrams and charades and Ping-Pong and billiards, as well.† (source)

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"Imagine a situation" was a game she'd invented where Colin found the anagrams and then Katherine imagined an anagrammatic situation.† (source)

Felicity and I nearly burst with laughter, for only we realize that that is an anagram of her name, Ann Bradshaw.† (source) Libba Bray, Sweet Far Thing, 2007

I reckon two down is an anagram of early bat, don't you?† (source) Mal Peet, Tamar, 2005

But the decline of my fortunes at McGraw-Hill began with the arrival of a new editor in chief, whom I secretly called the Weasel—a near-anagram of his actual surname.† (source) William Styron, Sophie's Choice, 1976

More important, Sophie had stated flat out that she should have broken the anagram on her own. (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

Merely so Langdon could help her break an anagram? (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

Sophie was supposed to break that anagram on her own. (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

When she was young, often her grandfather would use anagram games to hone her English spelling. (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

Oh, lame saint! was a perfect anagram of… Leonardo da Vinci! (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

"Rose," Langdon added, "is also an anagram of Eros, the Greek god of sexual love." (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

I missed the first two anagrams, Robert. (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003
anagrams = words or phrases spelled by rearranging the letters of other words or phrases

The Romans actually referred to the study of anagrams as ars magna—"the great art." (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003
anagrams = a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase

After all, Saunière had no reason to think Langdon was especially skilled at anagrams. (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003
anagrams = words or phrases spelled by rearranging the letters of other words or phrases

In fact, one of his anagrams had gotten him in trouble once when Sophie was a little girl. (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

After all, she was no stranger to anagrams—especially in English. (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003
anagrams = a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase

Gentlemen, not only does the face of Mona Lisa look androgynous, but her name is an anagram of the divine union of male and female. (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

"I can't imagine," Langdon said, staring at the printout, "how your grandfather created such an intricate anagram in the minutes before he died." (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

Later, she realized the numbers were also a clue as to how to decipher the other lines—a sequence out of order… a numeric anagram. (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

Her shock over the anagram was matched only by her embarrassment at not having deciphered the message herself. (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

"My grandfather probably created this Mona Lisa anagram long ago," Sophie said, glancing up at Langdon. (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

While being interviewed by an American art magazine, Saunière had expressed his distaste for the modernist Cubist movement by noting that Picasso's masterpiece Les Demoiselles d'Avignon was a perfect anagram of vile meaningless doodles. (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

The mystical teachings of the Kabbala drew heavily on anagrams—rearranging the letters of Hebrew words to derive new meanings. (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

Saunière's clever anagrammatic message was still on his mind, and Langdon wondered what Sophie would find at the Mona Lisa… if anything. (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003
anagrammatic = relating to a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase

She now recalled that her grandfather—a wordplay aficionado and art lover—had entertained himself as a young man by creating anagrams of famous works of art. (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003
anagrams = words or phrases spelled by rearranging the letters of other words or phrases

French kings throughout the Renaissance were so convinced that anagrams held magic power that they appointed royal anagrammatists to help them make better decisions by analyzing words in important documents. (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003
anagrams = a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase

Jeova Sanctus Unus is an anagram of a famous alchemist's name in Latin?† (source) Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol, 2009

Tamar began to explain what an anagram was.† (source) Mal Peet, Tamar, 2005

And even then he couldn't help but anagram.† (source)

They didn't seem to be anagrams, either.† (source) Mal Peet, Tamar, 2005

Dingleberries was an anagrammatic jackpot.'† (source)

Then, from the far side of the room, the anagram was walking toward me—black pin-striped suit and lime-green tie, sharky grin.† (source) Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, 2012

For a long while, Langdon examined the grid, searching for any hint of meaning within the letters—hidden words, anagrams, clues of any sort—but he found nothing.† (source) Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol, 2009

For that was how we discovered that the Order often hid their identities by use of anagrams, and that Hester Asa Moore, the name of our trusted mentor, was an anagram for Sarah Rees-Toome.† (source) Libba Bray, Sweet Far Thing, 2007

For that was how we discovered that the Order often hid their identities by use of anagrams, and that Hester Asa Moore, the name of our trusted mentor, was an anagram for Sarah Rees-Toome.† (source) Libba Bray, Sweet Far Thing, 2007

He gave himself a splinter rearranging p-o-t-s into s-t-o-p—the first anagram he remembered making.† (source)

Requirements include at least fourteen years' experience as a certified child prodigy, ability to anagram adeptly (and alliterate agilely), fluency in eleven languages.† (source)

I can anagram anything.† (source)

"Imagine a situation" was a game she'd invented where Colin found the anagrams and then Katherine imagined an anagrammatic situation.† (source)

But she left anyway, and he was alone in his room, searching out anagrams for mymissingpiece in a vain attempt to fall asleep.† (source)

Those hours of unsleepthroughable loudness allowed him ample time to wonder about everything from when Katherine last thought of him to the number of grammatically correct anagrams of rooster.'† (source)

The Eighth wasn't quite so sweet, and maybe I should have known it since her name, Katherine Barker, anagrams into Heart Breaker, Ink, like she's a veritable CEO of Dumping, but anyway she asked me out on a date and then I said yes and then she called me a freak and said I didn't have any pubes and that she would never seriously go out with me—all of which, to be fair, was true.† (source)

Okay, so anagrams.† (source)

He won the Evening American's first prize of five dollars with this, and one of my jobs was to see that what was sent out to contests, anagrams on the names of presidents or on the capitals of states, or elephants composed of tiny numbers (making what sum?)† (source)

You can come if you want to play anagrams.† (source)

You can come back if you want to play anagrams.† (source)

He found it impossible to study conic sections; something in their calm and tantalizing respectability breathing defiantly through Mr. Rooney's fetid parlors distorted their equations into insoluble anagrams.† (source)

What are anagrams?† (source)

What anagrams had he made on his name in youth?† (source) James Joyce, Ulysses, 1922

And this is the anagrammatic method.† (source)

[5] "When this method fails, they have two others more effectual, which the learned among them call acrostics and anagrams† (source)

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