| anagrammatism |
| Definition - The forming of anagrams, i.e., words created by reordering another word's letters. |
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Example - Changing the word not into ton is an act of anagrammatism. |
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Etymology - The word derives from the French anagrammatisme, which ultimately derives from the Greek anagrammatizein, to transpose letters (from the Greek ana, up or back + gramma, letter). |
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Oxford English Dictionary - Its first citation is from 1657: "Names consisting of alphabetary revolution, which they will have to be anagrammatism." (Camden Rem. (1657) 169) |