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Sign in to savethumb|An animation of the anadrome of wolf and flow. An anadrome is a word or phrase whose letters can be reversed to spell a different word or phrase. For example, desserts is an anadrome of stressed. An anadrome is therefore a special type of anagram. The English language is replete with such words.
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- Examples
- Invented anadromes
- Ananyms and anadromic names
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
thumb|An animation of the anadrome of wolf and flow. An anadrome is a word or phrase whose letters can be reversed to spell a different word or phrase. For example, desserts is an anadrome of stressed. An anadrome is therefore a special type of anagram. The English language is replete with such words.
The word anadrome comes from Greek anádromos (ἀνάδρομος), "running backward", and can be compared to palíndromos (παλίνδρομος), "running back again" (whence palindrome). An anadrome is also called (often humorously) as an emordnilap.