Anagram
The transposition of letters from a word or phrase to form a new word or phrase. All schoolboys know that T.S.Eliot = toilets.
[n] a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase
[v] read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning
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abuse of terms, acrostic, amphibologism, amphiboly, calembour, charade, conundrum, corruption, equivocality, equivoque, jeu de mots, logogram, logogriph, malapropism, metagram, missaying, palindrome, paronomasia, play on words, pun, punning, rebus, riddle