orthography - What is the name for words which, when the order of letters is reversed, spell other words?
For example:
- Lamina / Animal
- Dog / God
- Ogre / Ergo
- Desserts / Stressed
- Tuba / Abut
These are all anagrams, but they are a special type of anagram, where the order of letters is exactly reversed. They aren't palindromes, as they spell a different word when read backwards. I feel like there should be some sort of latin-sounding name for them, but the best I can come up with is the rather imprecise-sounding "backwards words", "mirror anagrams" or "reverse spelling pairs"...
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