Anagrams
An anagram is a new word (or phrase) obtained by rearranging the letters of a word or phrase.
Longest word anagrams
- carthorse = orchestra
- unidentifiably = undefinability
- dictionary = indicatory
- cinematographer = megachiropteran
Phrase anagrams
- decimal point = I'm a dot in place
- astronomers = moon starers
- eleven plus two = twelve plus one
Most anagrams of a word
Eight-letter words, five anagrams
- respects, scepters, specters, sceptres, spectres
- alerting, altering, integral, relating, triangle
Six-letter words, six anagrams:
- palest, pastel, petals, plates, staple, pleats
- caster, caters, crates, reacts, recast, traces
- drapes, parsed, rasped, spared, spread, padres
- merits, mister, timers, miters, mitres, remits
Five-letter words, seven anagrams
- pares, parse, pears, rapes, reaps, spare, spear
Most anagrams by adding another letter to a word
For example, from the word "integers" you can add eight alternative letters and each time create a new anagram:
- a "c" to give "secreting"
- a "d" to give "deserting"
- an "f" to give "festering"
- a "g" to give "greetings"
- an "m" to give "regiments"
- an "n" to give "resenting"
- a "p" to give "pestering"
- and a "t" to give "resetting".
The best I can find is "angriest" which gives twelve alternative anagrams:
"breasting" "recasting" "gradients" "grainiest" "streaking" "triangles" "streaming" "serrating" "asserting" "restating" "signature" and "waterings".
Anagram games
If you like solving anagrams, see the game Conundrum on the Pencil and Paper Games web site.
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