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What do you call a word that can be spelled forward or backward forming two different words
Is there a term for a word that is the same upside-down?Words that define a type of word and also obey that definitionTerm for words that sound alike but have different meanings and spellingsIs there a term for words that are spelled the same in a foreign language?If a word has two different meanings, is it two different words or one word with different meanings?What word describes text having a different meaning backwards and forwards?Term for a word that's a different word when spelled backwardsWhat is a word that means it can be described but doesn't exist in the dictionary?What is the name for a word that contains other words?What do you call a pair of words with opposite meanings that differ only by a prefix?
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It's called an anadrome. Palindrome is a special case where forward and backward generates the same word. Anagram is also related but the letters can be re-arranged in any order.
See examples at http://www.theislandenglishtutor.com/anagrams-palindromes-and-anadromes-heteropalindromes.html
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Semordnilap is apparently a modern alternative. It's "palindromes" in reverse.
Wikipedia source for palindrome and semordnilap
From Macmillan
The word palindrome is an established term in English, used to refer to words or phrases which read the same in either direction. Simple examples are the word noon, or the phrase navy van, which have exactly the same form and meaning when read in reverse. If the word palindromes is itself read in reverse however, the result is semordnilap, a term coined in recent years to refer to words and phrases which make sense when read backwards, but have a different meaning from when they are read forwards.
The British author Michael Quinion seems to have been among the first to give a definition of the term semordnilap, featuring the word in an article for his interesting website, www.worldwidewords.org, in May 2000, though the term is yet to be acknowledged in printed dictionaries. Alternative terms previously used by linguists to refer to the same phenomenon are reversal/reversal pair, inversion and back-word.
(Although, personally, I think Paul S. Lee's answer gives the original word and this one is a fun made-up word because someone didn't realise there already was one!).
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Yeah, anadrome (new word for me) is a lot easier to pronounce.
– Damila
2 hours ago
@Damila semordnilap (sem ord nil app) is pretty easy to pronounce for me. Maybe some people would have trouble with the rdn part, but it's dead simple if you go "ord. nil"
– Aethenosity
6 mins ago
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It's called an anadrome. Palindrome is a special case where forward and backward generates the same word. Anagram is also related but the letters can be re-arranged in any order.
See examples at http://www.theislandenglishtutor.com/anagrams-palindromes-and-anadromes-heteropalindromes.html
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It's called an anadrome. Palindrome is a special case where forward and backward generates the same word. Anagram is also related but the letters can be re-arranged in any order.
See examples at http://www.theislandenglishtutor.com/anagrams-palindromes-and-anadromes-heteropalindromes.html
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It's called an anadrome. Palindrome is a special case where forward and backward generates the same word. Anagram is also related but the letters can be re-arranged in any order.
See examples at http://www.theislandenglishtutor.com/anagrams-palindromes-and-anadromes-heteropalindromes.html
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It's called an anadrome. Palindrome is a special case where forward and backward generates the same word. Anagram is also related but the letters can be re-arranged in any order.
See examples at http://www.theislandenglishtutor.com/anagrams-palindromes-and-anadromes-heteropalindromes.html
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Semordnilap is apparently a modern alternative. It's "palindromes" in reverse.
Wikipedia source for palindrome and semordnilap
From Macmillan
The word palindrome is an established term in English, used to refer to words or phrases which read the same in either direction. Simple examples are the word noon, or the phrase navy van, which have exactly the same form and meaning when read in reverse. If the word palindromes is itself read in reverse however, the result is semordnilap, a term coined in recent years to refer to words and phrases which make sense when read backwards, but have a different meaning from when they are read forwards.
The British author Michael Quinion seems to have been among the first to give a definition of the term semordnilap, featuring the word in an article for his interesting website, www.worldwidewords.org, in May 2000, though the term is yet to be acknowledged in printed dictionaries. Alternative terms previously used by linguists to refer to the same phenomenon are reversal/reversal pair, inversion and back-word.
(Although, personally, I think Paul S. Lee's answer gives the original word and this one is a fun made-up word because someone didn't realise there already was one!).
edited 3 hours ago
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answered 4 hours ago
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Yeah, anadrome (new word for me) is a lot easier to pronounce.
– Damila
2 hours ago
@Damila semordnilap (sem ord nil app) is pretty easy to pronounce for me. Maybe some people would have trouble with the rdn part, but it's dead simple if you go "ord. nil"
– Aethenosity
6 mins ago
add a comment |
Semordnilap is apparently a modern alternative. It's "palindromes" in reverse.
Wikipedia source for palindrome and semordnilap
From Macmillan
The word palindrome is an established term in English, used to refer to words or phrases which read the same in either direction. Simple examples are the word noon, or the phrase navy van, which have exactly the same form and meaning when read in reverse. If the word palindromes is itself read in reverse however, the result is semordnilap, a term coined in recent years to refer to words and phrases which make sense when read backwards, but have a different meaning from when they are read forwards.
The British author Michael Quinion seems to have been among the first to give a definition of the term semordnilap, featuring the word in an article for his interesting website, www.worldwidewords.org, in May 2000, though the term is yet to be acknowledged in printed dictionaries. Alternative terms previously used by linguists to refer to the same phenomenon are reversal/reversal pair, inversion and back-word.
(Although, personally, I think Paul S. Lee's answer gives the original word and this one is a fun made-up word because someone didn't realise there already was one!).
edited 3 hours ago
Laurel
33.8k667118
answered 4 hours ago
PamPam
5,3341833
1
Yeah, anadrome (new word for me) is a lot easier to pronounce.
– Damila
2 hours ago
@Damila semordnilap (sem ord nil app) is pretty easy to pronounce for me. Maybe some people would have trouble with the rdn part, but it's dead simple if you go "ord. nil"
– Aethenosity
6 mins ago
add a comment |
Semordnilap is apparently a modern alternative. It's "palindromes" in reverse.
Wikipedia source for palindrome and semordnilap
From Macmillan
The word palindrome is an established term in English, used to refer to words or phrases which read the same in either direction. Simple examples are the word noon, or the phrase navy van, which have exactly the same form and meaning when read in reverse. If the word palindromes is itself read in reverse however, the result is semordnilap, a term coined in recent years to refer to words and phrases which make sense when read backwards, but have a different meaning from when they are read forwards.
The British author Michael Quinion seems to have been among the first to give a definition of the term semordnilap, featuring the word in an article for his interesting website, www.worldwidewords.org, in May 2000, though the term is yet to be acknowledged in printed dictionaries. Alternative terms previously used by linguists to refer to the same phenomenon are reversal/reversal pair, inversion and back-word.
(Although, personally, I think Paul S. Lee's answer gives the original word and this one is a fun made-up word because someone didn't realise there already was one!).
edited 3 hours ago
Laurel
33.8k667118
answered 4 hours ago
PamPam
5,3341833
Semordnilap is apparently a modern alternative. It's "palindromes" in reverse.
Wikipedia source for palindrome and semordnilap
From Macmillan
The word palindrome is an established term in English, used to refer to words or phrases which read the same in either direction. Simple examples are the word noon, or the phrase navy van, which have exactly the same form and meaning when read in reverse. If the word palindromes is itself read in reverse however, the result is semordnilap, a term coined in recent years to refer to words and phrases which make sense when read backwards, but have a different meaning from when they are read forwards.
The British author Michael Quinion seems to have been among the first to give a definition of the term semordnilap, featuring the word in an article for his interesting website, www.worldwidewords.org, in May 2000, though the term is yet to be acknowledged in printed dictionaries. Alternative terms previously used by linguists to refer to the same phenomenon are reversal/reversal pair, inversion and back-word.
(Although, personally, I think Paul S. Lee's answer gives the original word and this one is a fun made-up word because someone didn't realise there already was one!).
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Yeah, anadrome (new word for me) is a lot easier to pronounce.
– Damila
2 hours ago
@Damila semordnilap (sem ord nil app) is pretty easy to pronounce for me. Maybe some people would have trouble with the rdn part, but it's dead simple if you go "ord. nil"
– Aethenosity
6 mins ago
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1
Yeah, anadrome (new word for me) is a lot easier to pronounce.
– Damila
2 hours ago
@Damila semordnilap (sem ord nil app) is pretty easy to pronounce for me. Maybe some people would have trouble with the rdn part, but it's dead simple if you go "ord. nil"
– Aethenosity
6 mins ago
1
1
Yeah, anadrome (new word for me) is a lot easier to pronounce.
– Damila
2 hours ago
Yeah, anadrome (new word for me) is a lot easier to pronounce.
– Damila
2 hours ago
@Damila semordnilap (sem ord nil app) is pretty easy to pronounce for me. Maybe some people would have trouble with the rdn part, but it's dead simple if you go "ord. nil"
– Aethenosity
6 mins ago
@Damila semordnilap (sem ord nil app) is pretty easy to pronounce for me. Maybe some people would have trouble with the rdn part, but it's dead simple if you go "ord. nil"
– Aethenosity
6 mins ago
add a comment |
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