What are Anagrams

An anagram is a word puzzle who's basic idea centers around the rearranging of provided alphabets into new words, you could be given a phrase or a word and you required to create a new word by altering the position of the alphabet in the provided word or phrase.

The provided word is called the subject and the word you arrange out of it is the anagram.

Benefits of anagram
Anagrams help keep our brain sharp by providing it with plenty of mental exercises, it helps develop our vocabulary, and also heightens our problem solving skills. An anagram can be used to protect sensitive data like scrambling a password before penning it down in our diary.

Types of Anagram

Anagrams come in variations as shown below and the difference is often based on the rules.

Word to Word anagram
In a word to word anagram, the letters that constitute the provided word will have to be rearranged into a new word using all the alphabet only once.

Word	Anagram
Married	Admirer
Palm	Lamp
Heart	Earth

There are cases where you are allowed to use as many letters as you can salvage from the original word but can only use the alphabets once with preference given to the word with the highest number of letters.

Creating anagrams from the word Married

Used Letters	Anagram
7 Letters	Admirer
6 Letters	Admire, Marred, Raider
5 Letters	Armed, Dream, Media
4 Letters	Dear, Read, Ride
3 Letters	Air, Mad, Red

Coherent phrases Anagram
These are also known as pairagrams. They are special anagrams that combine with the original word or phrase to make the semblance of a sentence. Like this example

Phrase	Pairagram Anagram
"For the evil that men do"	"doth live on after them."
"Tom Marvolo Riddle”	“I am Lord Voldemort”
"He has that geometry proof"	"The theorem of Pythagoras "

How to solve Anagrams.

Expand your vocabulary
The more words you know, the easier it is to identify them when you scramble the given subject word.

Rearrange the letters.
Make a simple rearrangement if the letters you are given as the anagram subject.

Collect Consonant pairing
Collect common consonant and build around them, using them as a framework for building several words. This includes common letter pairings like “th,” “st,” and “sh” then add the vowels.

Collect Consonant pairing
Collect common pairings like “ie” , “ou” , “ea.” and “ay" bring in the remaining letters in the subject word.

Get help from anagram solver
After getting as much as you can get, use an anagram solver to see what you missed out and how well you did.

Anagram Solvers.

With the introduction of new technologies, powerful software and website, we now have assistance in the solving of anagrams. Using the given word, this programs can quickly run analysis of all possible combinations then crosscheck the results with a dictionary and display results based on word length and alphabetical order.

Here are some examples

Wordsmith
The Word Finder
Wordfinders
Crossword Solver
You simply have to type in a series of letters or the subject word and click on a button to activate the program. it often takes less than a minute to provide a solution.

Exercise.

Having learnt this much about anagrams, let's test our knowledge of anagrams. The first to come up with the longest word from this scrambled letters get 3 Steem power.
Entry closes once the post pays out.

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