"How well her name an Army doth present, In whom the Lord of hosts did pitch his tent!". "Anagram" from the 1633 edition of George Herbert's The Temple. An anagram (Greek anagramma 'letters written anew', passive participle of ana- 'again' + gramma 'letter') is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase, using all the original letters exactly once; e.g., Eleven plus two = Twelve plus one, A decimal point = I'm a dot in place, Astronomers = Moon starers. Someone who creates anagrams is called an anagrammatist. The original word or phrase is known as the subject of the anagram.