The origin of the anagram - the rearranging of letters in a word to form another word - is frequently ascribed to the Jews, who believed that secret mysteries are woven in the number of letters. More recently anagrams have been introduced into crossword puzzles.
This aid to the often time-consuming and frustrating aspect of completing a crossword contains over 200,000 words and phrases, including plural forms of nouns, palindromes, words of sixteen letters and over, backwords, all parts of speech, Christian names and idioms. The anagrams are grouped by the number of letters they contain, with the letters set out in alphabetical order. So once the letters of a crossword anagram are arranged alphabetically, finding the solution is as easy as locating a word in the dictionary.
