anamonic

Meaning

Noun

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.

Origin

; coined by Scrabble player Bob Lipton.

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