What Are Anagrams?

Definition of "Anagram"

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Anagrams are words that share the same letters as each other.

Easy Examples of Anagrams

stop, tops, opts, pots, and spot
stool and tools
secure and rescue

Table of Contents

Examples of Funny Anagrams
An Example of a Long and Clever Anagram
A Widget to Build Anagrams
The Longest Single-Word Anagrams
Why Anagrams Are Important
Multi-choice Test

Examples of Funny Anagrams

Anagrams are usually created just for fun. They are most effective when their meanings are associated or even the same. For example:

Dormitory and Dirty Room
Elvis and Lives
The country side and No City Dust Here
Heavy Rain and Hire a Navy
Eleven plus two and Twelve plus one

An Example of a Long and Clever Anagram

If there's a better anagram than this one by Cory Calhoun, then I haven't seen it:

"To be or not to be: that is the question, whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune."

and

"In one of the Bard's best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten."

A Widget to Build Anagrams

Create Your Own Anagram!

Enter the text you want to change into an anagram here.
The Original Text
(Click a letter to select it for your anagram.)

Your Anagram So Far
(Click a letter to highlight it before editing.)

Edit Your Anagram
(Edit the highlighted letter.)

Move Letters:

The Longest Single-Word Anagrams

Here are the longest single-word anagrams:

hydroxydeoxycorticosterones and hydroxydesoxycorticosterone
conversationalists and conservationalists

Why Anagrams Are Important

Anagrams are usually created just for fun, but, for teachers, creating anagrams can be a useful way to encourage students to play with letters and words.

Anagrams can also have another, more business-like use though as they can make a message more impactful and memorable. Consider these anagrams:

The country side and no city dust here
Heavy rain and Hire a navy

The first anagram could help with making an anti-pollution message more impactful and memorable, while the second could help in a bid to improve flood defences. (You might have to point out that they're anagrams though.)