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This makes trestle from mixture of letters (7)

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anagram

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'this makes trestle from mixture of letters' is the definition.
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(Other definitions for anagram that I've seen before include "Rearrangement of a word's letters to form new word(s)" , "Word that rearranges another's letters" , "Word(s) rearranged to form others" , "Word play" , "a mix of characters" .)

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