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Old 15-Apr-2003, 20:16
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What do you call it when a word spelled one way spells a different word when the letters are arranged backwards?
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Originally Posted by Red5
I'm not sure there's a term for this. The nearest I got was palindrome

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Sorry, that's not it. A palindrome is a word spelled the same forwards and backwards. (E.g.: radar)

There might be a name for the type of word he/she is asking about, but I don't know it either.

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