semordnilap
Noun
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Noun
semordnilap (plural semordnilaps)
- A word, phrase, or sentence that has the property of forming another word, phrase, or sentence when its letters are reversed. A semordnilap differs from a palindrome in that the word or phrase resulting from the reversal is different from the original word or phrase.
- (word, phrase, or sentence that forms another when its letters are reversed) anadrome, half-palindrome, heteropalindrome, reversgram, reversible anagram, semi-palindrome, word reversal, levidrome
- See also antigram, in which the meaning is necessarily negated but letters may be freely rearranged.
- French: anacyclique
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