EGAVE

chronogram

About 0.02 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A sentence or inscription whose letters, when interpreted according to a system (such as Roman numerals) in which letters correspond to numeric values, stand for a particular date (usually the date of inscription) when rearranged.
  2. noun A phylogenetic tree that has branch spans proportional to evolutionary time.

Similar words

chronograph chronostich abecedarium hierogram chrononym logogram typogram cipher isogram imperial cypher

Often followed by

of for is in on and by to which

Word family

chronograms

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