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semordnilaps

semordnilaps is the plural of semordnilap.

Meaning of semordnilap

Noun

semordnilap (plural semordnilaps)

  1. A word, phrase, or sentence that has the property of forming another word, phrase, or sentence when its letters are reversed. A semordnilap differs from a palindrome in that the word or phrase resulting from the reversal is different from the original word or phrase.
    • [He] then goes on to credit us with giving him some of the best examples of semordnilaps.1965, Dmitri Borgmann, Language on Vacation: An Olio of Orthological Oddities, page 42
    Synonyms:
    anadrome, half-palindrome, heteropalindrome, reversgram, reversible anagram, semi-palindrome, word reversal, levidrome, emordnilap, antigram

Questions about semordnilaps

What is semordnilaps the plural of?
Semordnilaps is the plural of semordnilap.

Words near semordnilaps in the dictionary

  1. Semonidean
  2. semons
  3. Semont maneuver
  4. semophorin
  5. semordnilap
  6. semordnilaps
  7. semorphone
  8. semostomous
  9. semotactic
  10. semotactical
  11. semotactically

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