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Trying to find the name of the word that describes a word mean spelled backwards or forwards is meaning and having different meanings. For example: reward and drawer.






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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.

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              @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"

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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!).






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                      Yeah, anadrome (new word for me) is a lot easier to pronounce.

                      – Damila
                      5 hours ago






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                      @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
                      3 hours ago


















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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!).






                    share|improve this answer





















                    • 1





                      Yeah, anadrome (new word for me) is a lot easier to pronounce.

                      – Damila
                      5 hours ago






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                      @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
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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!).






                    share|improve this answer















                    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
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                      @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
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                      Yeah, anadrome (new word for me) is a lot easier to pronounce.

                      – Damila
                      5 hours ago






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                      @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
                      3 hours ago










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                    Yeah, anadrome (new word for me) is a lot easier to pronounce.

                    – Damila
                    5 hours ago





                    Yeah, anadrome (new word for me) is a lot easier to pronounce.

                    – Damila
                    5 hours ago




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                    @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
                    3 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
                    3 hours ago












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