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Anagram vs Palindrome - What's the difference?

anagram | palindrome |

As nouns the difference between anagram and palindrome

is that anagram is a word or phrase that is created by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase while palindrome is a word, phrase, number or any other sequence of units which has the property of reading the same forwards as it does backwards, character for character, sometimes disregarding punctuation, capitalization and diacritics.

As a verb anagram

is to form anagrams.

anagram

English

(wikipedia anagram)

Alternative forms

* anagramme (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (of words) A word or phrase that is created by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.
    • The word "silent" is an anagram of "listen".

    Derived terms

    * anagrammatic * anagrammatise * anagrammatism * anagrammatist

    See also

    * alphagram * palindrome

    Verb

  • To form anagrams.
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    palindrome

    English

    (wikipedia palindrome)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A word, phrase, number or any other sequence of units which has the property of reading the same forwards as it does backwards, character for character, sometimes disregarding punctuation, capitalization and diacritics.
    • Level, madam and racecar are examples of single word palindromes .
  • A poetic form in which the sequence of words reads the same in either direction.
    • Rise to vote sir'' is an example of a sentence that is a palindrome .
  • (genetics) A stretch of DNA in which the sequence of nucleotides on one strand are in the reverse order to that of the complementary strand

    • Derived terms

    * (genetics) massive palindrome

    See also

    * palindromicable * * * aibohphobia * anagram * semordnilap ----