ANAGRAM

I. noun see: gram Date: 1589 a word or phrase made by transposing the letters of another word or phrase, a game in which words are formed by rearranging the letters of other words or by arranging letters taken (as from a stock of cards or blocks) at random, ~matic also ~matical adjective ~matically adverb II. transitive verb (-grammed; -gramming) Date: 1630 ~matize , to rearrange (the letters of a text) in order to discover a hidden message