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.
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