Reverse spelling

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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.

[edit] 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 the Erised is used to solve a puzzle.

[edit] See also

• Ambigram
• Anagram
• Backmasking
• Hidden message
• Palindrome