What are the different types of anagrams?

An anagram is a word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase. Anagrams can be useful by helping a child or student become aware of both spelling and spelling patterns.

List of Anagram Words

We categorized each anagram into 3 categories: easy, medium and hard. We hope this information will assist you in selecting words that are appropriate for your child or student.


act – cat	case – aces	note – tone	tar – rat
aide – idea	earth – heart	ours – sour	tea – eat
ape – pea	fast – fats	pat – tap	urn – run
are – ear	flow – wolf	pear – reap	use – Sue
arm – ram	God – dog	pins – spins	war – raw
bare – bear	mars – rams	pots – spots	was – saw
beak – bake	meat – team	ring – grin	wed – dew
best – bets	meats – steam	sink – skin	who – how
boss – sobs	nap – pan	slip – lips	won – now
café – face	night – thing	tab – bat	yap – pay
care – race


atom – bomb	meals – males	saint – satin
avenge – Geneva	meals – Salem	sales – seals
balm – lamb	mean – mane	salts – lasts
blot – bolt	melon – lemon	salvages – Las Vegas
blow – bowl	moist – omits	sharp – harps
brag – grab	more – Rome	shrub – brush
chum – much	needs – dense	siren – rinse
coal – cola	nerved – Denver	skids – disks
counts – Tucson	none – neon	skill – kills
diagnose – San Diego	nude – dune	snail – nails
diary – dairy	ocean – canoe	sober – robes
domains – Madison	pace – cape	soils – oils
dottier – Detroit	pairs – Paris	solo – Oslo
fired – fried	pale – leap	spray – prays
fringe – finger	panels – Naples	stack – tacks
hasten – Athens	parks – spark	stick – ticks
iced – dice	pools – spool	strip – trips
inch – chin	ports – sport	study – dusty
keen – knee	posts – stops	team – meat
lamp – palm	races – cares	tooled – Toledo
last – salt	reap – pear	votes – stove
limped – dimple	reef – free	waits – waist
lion – loin	robed – bored	wasps – swaps
looted – Toledo	rock – cork	wells – swell
lump – plum	room – moor	west – stew
march – charm	ropes – pores	what – thaw
mash – hams


a decimal point – I’m a dot in place	monasteries – Amen stories
a near miss – an air miss	old England – golden land
an aisle – is a lane	restaurant – runs a treat
considerate – care is noted	saintliness – least in sins
conversation – voices rant on	Semolina – is no meal
dormitory – dirty room	signature – a true sign
dynamite – may it end	Statue of Liberty – built to stay free
eleven plus two – twelve plus one	the earthquakes – that queer shake
Fourth of July – joyful fourth	the Morse Code – here come dots
gold and silver – grand old evils	the nudist colony – no untidy clothes
HMS Pinafore – name for ship	the tennis pro – he in net sport
limericks – slick rime	Valentine poem – pen mate in love
departed this life – He’s left it, dead; RIP
the public art galleries – large picture halls, I bet
year two thousand – a year to shut down

Please use our comment form to let us know if we missed any anagrams.

Source Fry, E.B., Ph.D. & Kress, J.E., Ed.D. (2006). The Reading Teacher’s Book of Lists 5th Edition. San Francisco, CA: Jossey Bass.

By Jennifer Gunner, M.Ed. Education , Staff Writer

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When you scramble a word to create a new word, you've created an anagram. For example, you can turn the word anagram into ragman, ma rang or nag a ram! Anagram examples can be fun and witty, and they often end in hilarious results.

Many anagrams of simple words are random, new words that are not relevant to the original.

angel = glean	arc = car	brag = grab
bored = robed	cat = act	cider = cried
dusty = study	elbow = below	inch = chin
night = thing	peach = cheap	players = parsley
sadder = dreads	save = vase	state = taste

A creative way to use anagrams is to make them relevant to the original word or phrase. A great example is debit card and its anagram, bad credit. Additional examples of relevant (yet funny) anagrams are:

a gentleman = elegant man	astronomer = moon starer	Christmas = trims cash
conversation = voices rant on	dormitory = dirty room	eleven plus two = twelve plus one
Fourth of July = joyful Fourth	listen = silent	schoolmaster = the classroom
slot machines = cash lost in 'em	snooze alarms = alas, no more Z's	the detectives = detect thieves
the eyes = they see	the Morse Code = here come dots	vacation time = I am not active

You can even create anagrams from a famous person's name. Some of these anagrams describe that person quite well, while others are quite silly! Examples of writers, actors, scientists, athletes, and politicians whose names work as anagrams include:

Clint Eastwood = old west action	Elvis Presley = Presley lives	Emily Dickinson = income is kindly
George Bush = he bugs Gore	Jim Morrison = Mr. Mojo Risin'	Madam Curie = me: radium ace
Madonna Louise Ciccone = one cool dance musician	Michael Jordan = jam on, rich deal	Ronald Reagan = A darn long era
Russell Crowe = scowler rules	Saoirse Ronan = rare as onions	Shaquille O'Neal = one equals a hill
Thomas Edison = notes said "Ohm"	T.S. Eliot = toilets	William Shakespeare = I'll make a wise phrase

Anagrams are popular clues in both literature and movies. Many writers also rearrange the letters of names to create new and interesting names for their characters. Some examples of anagrams in literature and movies include:

William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" is actually an anagram of "Amleth," a Danish prince.
In Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver visits Tribnia, also known as Langden, anagrams of Britain and England, respectively.
J.K. Rowling uses the anagram "I am Lord Voldemort" as an anagram for the Dark Lord’s prior name, Tom Marvolo Riddle.
In Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, clues left by a murdered museum curator are hidden in anagrams: O, Draconian devil (Leonardo da Vinci), Oh, lame saint (the Mona Lisa), so dark the con of man (Madonna of the Rocks).
Anagrams are everywhere in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. Most often it's the author's name (Loney M. Setnick) and Count Olaf's name (Al Funcoot).
The movie October Sky is based on the book Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam. The titles are anagrams of one another.
In the movie and book The Shining by Stephen King, the character Danny screams REDRUM and writes the word on the mirror using lipstick. REDRUM is an anagram for Murder.
In The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal Lecter gave detectives the name Louis Friend. Louis Friend is an anagram for iron sulfide. Iron sulfide is known as Fool's Gold, meaning that Lecter's clue was meaningless.

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