An antigram is a variety of anagram, in which the letters of one word are rearranged to create its opposite. Examples of antigrams include united and untied, and the word forty-five, which anagrams to over fifty. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Antigrams”
We were talking earlier about synanograms or synonymous anagrams.
There are also antigrams, which are when you take the letters of a word and you mix them up and you have something completely different.
So the opposite.
Right.
Or close to the opposite.
I’m sure you’ve made the typo untied for united.
Oh, sure.
Yeah, that’s a good one.
And another one is if you take the word 45, you can mix up the letters to make them over 50.
Yeah, that’s cool.
I love these.
These are great.
I know, right?
If you have a synanogram or what is it?
Antigram.
Antigram.
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