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Posted 6 Months ago
quest_marsman
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Aligns is an anagram of signal. None of the letters in each word are in the same spot. Two questions - is there a name for this type of anagram and what is the longest word pair which will fit this description? Thanks in advance.

aslam PS: If there is a website which describes this, please post. Politely.
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Posted 6 Months ago
dagger29
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mathematically, at least, it's called a derangement of the letters. Not sure I've seen it in a wordplay context before - nice idea.

'Trivial' anagrams like decommission/commissioned should be a good place to look for the longest one.
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Posted 6 Months ago
Lambdalana
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'Making the Alphabet Dance' (Eckler) gives examples of all the 6!-1 possible permutations of a six-letter word, forming a new word in each case, but has nothing specifically about derangements.

However, it does give the longest known 'non-trivial' anagrams, and, of these, CINEMATOGRAPHER-MEGACHIROPTERAN is a derangement (if I've checked
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Posted 6 Months ago
johnb123
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A few times ago, when I was doing maths at school, my maths teacher used the word 'dérangement' (I'm French) which looks like Martin's word 'derangement', isn't it?

Sincerely, Phytozoaire I.
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Posted 6 Months ago
davidm
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Maybe they SHOULD be called, if not something else already, 'Deranagrams'... (snicker..)

Thanks, Leroy Quet
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