dormitory → dirty room: nine tiles, all reused, nothing left over.
Single words
- listen→silentcheck
- heart→earthcheck
- night→thingcheck
- below→elbowcheck
- state→tastecheck
- evil→vilecheck
- angel→gleancheck
- save→vasecheck
- cider→criedcheck
- dusty→studycheck
- inch→chincheck
- peach→cheapcheck
- stressed→dessertscheck
- bored→robedcheck
- secure→rescuecheck
- lemon→meloncheck
- players→parsleycheck
- arc→carcheck
Words into phrases
- dormitory→dirty roomcheck
- astronomer→moon starercheck
- the eyes→they seecheck
- a gentleman→elegant mancheck
- schoolmaster→the classroomcheck
- conversation→voices rant oncheck
- slot machines→cash lost in mecheck
- eleven plus two→twelve plus onecheck
- the morse code→here come dotscheck
- a decimal point→I'm a dot in placecheck
- election results→lies, let's recountcheck
- snooze alarms→alas, no more Zscheck
- the earthquakes→that queer shakecheck
Antigrams (the anagram means the opposite)
- funeral→real funcheck
- united→untiedcheck
- filled→ill-fedcheck
- protectionism→nice to importscheck
- restful→flustercheck
Famous names
- Clint Eastwood→Old West actioncheck
- Tom Marvolo Riddle→I am Lord Voldemortcheck
- Vladimir Nabokov→Vivian Darkbloomcheck
- Salvador Dali→Avida Dollarscheck
- François Rabelais→Alcofribas Nasiercheck
- Florence Nightingale→Flit on, cheering angelcheck
Not anagrams, though often called one
- Lewis Carroll is not an anagram of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Dodgson translated his first two names into Latin (Carolus Ludovicus), swapped them and turned them back into English: Lewis Carroll.
- Words that are spelled backwards (stressed → desserts) are anagrams, but a special kind: reversals, or semordnilaps (“palindromes” backwards).
- Almost-anagrams. Online lists repeat a few that drop or add a letter. If one looks too perfect, run it through the checker.
Questions
- What is the most famous anagram?
- Probably dormitory → dirty room or listen → silent for single words, and Tom Marvolo Riddle → I am Lord Voldemort from Harry Potter.
- What is an antigram?
- An anagram whose meaning is the opposite of the original, like funeral → real fun or united → untied.