Reverse Text Generator

Reverse your text in four ways: spell it backwards, reverse the order of words, reverse the order of lines, or flip it upside down with special characters you can paste into social media bios and posts.

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Reverse

How to use the Text Reverser

  1. Type or paste the text you want to reverse.

  2. Choose Reverse Characters, Reverse Words, Reverse Lines or Upside Down.

  3. The converted text replaces the input; click again to switch it back for the reversible modes.

  4. Copy the result and paste it into your post, puzzle or test data.

Examples

Backwards text
Input
Hello world
Result
dlrow olleH
Reverse word order
Input
Hello big world
Result
world big Hello
Upside down
Input
Hello
Result
ollǝH

The four modes

  • Reverse Characters spells the whole text backwards, character by character. Emoji, accented letters and flags stay intact rather than breaking into pieces.
  • Reverse Words keeps each word readable but flips their order within each line, which is useful for word puzzles and for checking sentence structure.
  • Reverse Lines keeps every line as it is but flips the order of the lines, handy for reversing a list, a log file or a ranked chart.
  • Upside Down reverses the text and swaps each letter for a Unicode character that looks like it has been rotated 180°, so it reads correctly when the screen is turned over.

Where upside-down text works

Upside-down text uses ordinary Unicode characters from other alphabets and symbol sets (for example "ɐ" for "a" and "ǝ" for "e"), not an image or a font. That means you can paste it into most places that accept text: social bios and posts, comments, messages and usernames.

Some letters have no perfect upside-down equivalent, and a few fonts may show a box for rare characters. Screen readers will read the substitute characters literally, so avoid upside-down text for important information.

Uses for reversed text

  • Puzzles and games: mirror-writing clues, escape room props and classroom activities.
  • Social media: eye-catching bios and posts.
  • Palindromes: check whether a word or phrase reads the same backwards. Remove spaces and punctuation first with Find and Replace, then compare.
  • Testing software: developers use reversed and right-to-left-looking strings to test how layouts and search handle unusual input.

For other playful formatting, try aLtErNaTiNg case in the Case Converter.

Reversing text is harder than it looks

Simple reversers flip the raw code units of a string. That breaks anything made of more than one unit: emoji with skin tones split into a plain emoji and a coloured square, flags turn into two letters, and accented letters lose their accents or attach them to the wrong letter. This tool reverses grapheme clusters, the units a reader sees as single characters, so "café 👋🏽" reverses to "👋🏽 éfac" with the emoji and the "é" intact.

Reverse Words splits on spaces, so punctuation stays attached to its word: "Hello, world!" becomes "world! Hello,". Tidy the punctuation afterwards if you need a clean result.

Mirror text vs. upside-down text

Upside-down text rotates letters 180°, so it reads correctly when the screen is turned over. Mirror text flips letters left to right, as seen in a mirror, which needs a different set of look-alike characters and is not available for every letter. For most social and puzzle uses, upside-down text gives a cleaner result.

Frequently asked questions

Paste your text and click Reverse Characters. The whole text is spelt backwards, including spaces and punctuation.

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