Anagrams

An anagram is a word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase. Anagrams can be useful by helping a child or student become aware of both spelling and spelling patterns.

List of Anagram Words

We categorized each anagram into 3 categories: easy, medium and hard. We hope this information will assist you in selecting words that are appropriate for your child or student.

Easy Anagrams
act – cat	case – aces	note – tone	tar – rat
aide – idea	earth – heart	ours – sour	tea – eat
ape – pea	fast – fats	pat – tap	urn – run
are – ear	flow – wolf	pear – reap	use – Sue
arm – ram	God – dog	pins – spins	war – raw
bare – bear	mars – rams	pots – spots	was – saw
beak – bake	meat – team	ring – grin	wed – dew
best – bets	meats – steam	sink – skin	who – how
boss – sobs	nap – pan	slip – lips	won – now
café – face	night – thing	tab – bat	yap – pay
care – race

Medium Anagrams
atom – bomb	meals – males	saint – satin
avenge – Geneva	meals – Salem	sales – seals
balm – lamb	mean – mane	salts – lasts
blot – bolt	melon – lemon	salvages – Las Vegas
blow – bowl	moist – omits	sharp – harps
brag – grab	more – Rome	shrub – brush
chum – much	needs – dense	siren – rinse
coal – cola	nerved – Denver	skids – disks
counts – Tucson	none – neon	skill – kills
diagnose – San Diego	nude – dune	snail – nails
diary – dairy	ocean – canoe	sober – robes
domains – Madison	pace – cape	soils – oils
dottier – Detroit	pairs – Paris	solo – Oslo
fired – fried	pale – leap	spray – prays
fringe – finger	panels – Naples	stack – tacks
hasten – Athens	parks – spark	stick – ticks
iced – dice	pools – spool	strip – trips
inch – chin	ports – sport	study – dusty
keen – knee	posts – stops	team – meat
lamp – palm	races – cares	tooled – Toledo
last – salt	reap – pear	votes – stove
limped – dimple	reef – free	waits – waist
lion – loin	robed – bored	wasps – swaps
looted – Toledo	rock – cork	wells – swell
lump – plum	room – moor	west – stew
march – charm	ropes – pores	what – thaw
mash – hams

Hard Anagrams
a decimal point – I’m a dot in place	monasteries – Amen stories
a near miss – an air miss	old England – golden land
an aisle – is a lane	restaurant – runs a treat
considerate – care is noted	saintliness – least in sins
conversation – voices rant on	Semolina – is no meal
dormitory – dirty room	signature – a true sign
dynamite – may it end	Statue of Liberty – built to stay free
eleven plus two – twelve plus one	the earthquakes – that queer shake
Fourth of July – joyful fourth	the Morse Code – here come dots
gold and silver – grand old evils	the nudist colony – no untidy clothes
HMS Pinafore – name for ship	the tennis pro – he in net sport
limericks – slick rime	Valentine poem – pen mate in love
departed this life – He’s left it, dead; RIP
the public art galleries – large picture halls, I bet
year two thousand – a year to shut down

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Source Fry, E.B., Ph.D. & Kress, J.E., Ed.D. (2006). The Reading Teacher’s Book of Lists 5th Edition. San Francisco, CA: Jossey Bass.

List of Anagram Words

Easy Anagrams

Medium Anagrams

Hard Anagrams

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