Levidrome

Quick meaning: Levidrome is a noun meaning (neologism) A word with a different definition when the spelling is reversed.

Meaning

(neologism) A word with a different definition when the spelling is reversed.

Example Sentences

One classmate offered up "part" and "trap" as a levidrome on Friday.

She always says to him, ‘You got any good levidromes for me today?’ The other day he said, ‘Yeah, I got stressed and desserts. And drawer and reward.’”

Since then, the levidrome has been gaining traction around the world. The Budd family has been inundated with pictures of school projects where students find levidromes.

Wherever sequential alphabets gained power, cultures became more transfixed by linear time. Change the order of the letters, and you get a new meaning: canoe is never mistaken for its anagram ocean. Map is not the same as its levidrome Pam.

Word Forms

• levidromes

Synonyms for levidrome

Depending on context, synonyms include anadrome, heteropalindrome, semordnilap.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include retronym, reversalism, reversgram, re-etymologization, transflection, reversement.

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