Anagram

Anagram, a word or phrase formed by transposing and writing over again the letters of some other word or phrase. Strict anagrammatists do not admit a substitution or change in the letters to be transposed, but some famous anagrams do have these changes. Among the many famous anagrams are: "Honor est a Nilo" for Horatio Nelson and "I require love in a subject" for Queen Victoria's Jubilee Year. There are also interchangeable words, such as amor and Roma, Eros and rose, and evil and live. This old practice of anagrams is the foundation for a variety of games played by several persons.