Semordnilap is a word playfully coined by word-game lovers sometime in the mid-20th century. While a palindrome reads the same way backwards or forwards (otto, kayak), a semordnilap (itself a ...

If you love word play, you probably know that a word—or longer piece of writing—that reads the same forward and backward is called a palindrome. But what do you call a word that spells another word ...

If you worked as a typist for Merriam-Webster in the pre-internet era, one of your tasks would have been typing out every word spelled backwards. While this sounds absurd, there's an excellent reason ...

Our brains are actually pretty great at filling in gaps, but that’s a bad thing when you’re scanning for spelling errors. If you want to focus more on each word, you need to put things in reverse. If ...

Alyssa Kramer can say any word backward. Assyla Remark nac yas yna drow drawkcacb. The 14-year-old from Poteau, Okla., can flip words around and spit them back out almost instantly -- it took me, on ...

A bright boy from Victoria, Canada, recently discovered that the English language is lacking something — a word to describe words that spell something different when written backwards. And little Levi ...

The fastest time to spell 50 words backwards is 1 min 7.53 sec and was achieved by Latha R Prasad (India) in Kerala, India, on 18 February 2018. This was Latha's third attempt to set this record.