Anagrammatical

Part of speech: adjective

Definitions

1. Relating to anagrams, or to the making of words by rearranging the letters of other words
2. Characterized by the rearrangement of letters to form new words, as in an anagram puzzle
3. Involving or resembling the transposition of letters within a word to produce a different word

Etymology: "Anagrammatical" is a straightforward formation: it comes from Latin "anagrammaticus", which itself derives from Greek "anagrammatismos", the art of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to form another. The Latin adjective was built on that Greek base, and English added the adjectival suffix "-al" to it, producing the form we use. The base word "anagram" is the more familiar of the two, and "anagrammatical" simply describes something relating to such letter rearrangement.

Synonyms: anagrammatic