What is an anagram generator?

An anagram generator is an app or website that takes the letters in a word or phrase and rearranges them to form other words or phrases. Entering the word "tables" into an anagram generator returns "stable," "bleats," "ablest" and phrases such as "Lab Set" and "Be Salt."

Wordsmith.org's anagram generator offers advanced options for creating anagrams. Users can specify a word that the anagram must contain or exclude and the minimum number of letters that can be in the anagram phrase words.

Anagram generators are useful in playing word games such as Scrabble and Words with Friends, states Wordsmith. Other uses include anagramming to informally encode words, to generate different passwords, and as mnemonics.