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An alphagram of a word (or of any group of letters, such as a Scrabble rack) consists of those letters arranged in alphabetical order. For example, the alphagram of ABDICATE is AABCDEIT. Obviously, words which are anagrams have the same alphagram. Scrabble board in play. ... This article needs cleanup. ... An anagram (Greek ana- = back or again, and graphein = to write) is the result of permuting the letters of a word or words in such a manner as to produce other words that possess linguistic meaning. ...

Alphagrams are frequently used in the study and recollection of words by tournament Scrabble players. Scrabble board in play. ...

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	When Alphagram founder Ellen Shapiro's son Alex was about six and a half and not learning to read, he was diagnosed as having dyslexia.
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	An alphagram of a word (or of any group of letters, such as a Scrabble rack) consists of those letters arranged in alphabetical order.
	Obviously, words which are anagrams have the same alphagram.
	Alphagrams are frequently used in the study and recollection of words by tournament Scrabble players.

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