different between anadrome vs semordnilap

English

Etymology

ana- +? -drome, i.e. "backward course".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ.n?.d?o?m/

Noun

anadrome (plural anadromes)

1. A word which forms a different word when spelled backwards.

   "Desserts" and "stressed" are believed to be the longest common English anadromes.

2. An anadromous fish.

Synonyms

• semordnilap, reverse spelling, heteropalindrome, levidrome

See also

• ananym
• anagram
• palindrome

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.na.d?om/

Adjective

anadrome (plural anadromes)

1. anadromous (of migratory fish)

Further reading

• “anadrome” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Adjective

anadrome

1. feminine plural of anadromo

Anagrams

• modanare
• modanerà

English

Etymology

A reverse spelling of palindromes. "Semordnilap", according to author O.V. Michaelsen, was probably first used by recreational linguist Dmitri Borgmann, cited by Martin Gardner in the revised edition of C. C. Bombaugh's Oddities and Curiosities of Words and Literature (1961) [1]. The underlying concept (but not the term) is found at least as far back as Lewis Carroll's Sylvie and Bruno (1889).

Noun

semordnilap (plural semordnilaps)

1. 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.

Synonyms

• (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.

Translations

Anagrams

• palindromes