Reverse spelling

Reverse spelling

Reverse spelling or backward spelling is spelling of words in a non-conventional reverse or backward order. Semordnilaps is a name coined for a word or phrase that spells a "different" word or phrase backwards. Palindromes have the same spelling order when spelled backwards.

Reverse spelling in the arts

*A well-known reverse spelling is the word "murder" spelled backwards as redrum in book and film "The Shining".
*The character "Tobor", the inverse of "robot", appears in several films and TV-series, e.g. "Tobor the Great" (1954), the character "Tobor" in "8 Man" (1965).
*In the "Harry Potter" series the magical object called The Mirror of Erised is used to solve a puzzle.

ee also

*Ambigram
*Anagram
*Backmasking
*Hidden message
*Palindrome


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