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What is an anagram?

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An anagram is a word or phrase that is spelled with the exact same letters as another word.

Example: RIDES is an anagram of SIRED and vice versa. DIRE DRESS is an anagram made from both of the words RIDES and SIRED.

There are several online anagram solver available. They help people solving the anagrams that they can't crack.

- The name of the Internet Annagram Server, a facility for making or solving annagrams, is itself an annagram of 'I, Rearrangement Servant'. See link below for this website.

- Another online anagram solver is Xavier's Anagram Solver. It solves anagrams by using a simple progamming technique. It finds multiple solutions for anagrams you throw at it. The creator also documented the way the solver works and why it's so clever.

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