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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