Anamonic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Anamonic is a noun meaning A mnemonic used for recalling lists of words, particularly in Scrabble, consisting of a "stem" of base letters and an accompanying phrase, each of whose letters can combine with the stem to form an anagram of a word.
Meaning
A mnemonic used for recalling lists of words, particularly in Scrabble, consisting of a "stem" of base letters and an accompanying phrase, each of whose letters can combine with the stem to form an anagram of a word.
Example Sentences
For example, the DAMOSEL stem only appears in the second of the two Internet lists mentioned above. The given anamonic is PRIZED GALS.
Word Forms
- anamonics
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include anagram, blanagram, anagrammatization, anagrammatism, anagraph, aptagram.
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