How do I make my text go backwards?

Type or paste it in the box at the top of this page. The backwards version shows up right away. Press Copy text and paste it where you like.

How do I reverse the order of words but not letters?

Pick Word order under the result. "one two three" becomes "three two one", and each word keeps its spelling.

Why did my emoji turn into a question mark after reversing?

Many emoji are stored as two 16 bit pieces, called a surrogate pair. Some tools flip those pieces apart. Half a pair is not a valid character, so your phone shows � or a box. This tool keeps each emoji whole.

Can I reverse text on my phone?

Yes. This page works in the browser on iPhone and Android. Phone keyboards have no backwards mode, so type here, copy the result and paste it in your app.

Is backwards text the same as mirror writing?

No. Backwards text only changes the order of the letters. Mirror writing also flips each letter, as in a mirror. Leonardo da Vinci wrote many of his notes this way. On a screen you can only copy it roughly with lookalike letters.

Can someone read my backwards message if I paste it back here?

Yes. Two flips give back the original text, so anyone can undo it in a second. Backwards text is a game, not a way to keep a secret safe.

Does reversed text hurt how screen readers read it?

Yes. A screen reader reads backwards words as nonsense or spells them out letter by letter. Upside down letters may be read by their odd names. Add the normal text next to it when people need to understand it.

How do I flip text upside down instead?

Use the upside down text generator. It turns your text 180 degrees, mirrors it or flips only the letters, and marks letters that have no upside down twin.

Text Backwards: Reverse Letters or Words

Type below and your text flips backwards right away. Pick letters, words or each word on its own.

Letter tiles being picked up by an arrow and set down in reverse order

Last checked October 30, 2026 by the TextEditor.com team

How to write text backwards

Type or paste your text in the box at the top. The result changes while you type. Pick one of three modes.

Mode	You type	You get
Letters	Hello world	dlrow olleH
Word order	Hello big world	world big Hello
Each word	Hello world	olleH dlrow

Letters is the classic backwards text. It turns DEF into FED. To read a backwards message, paste it in again or press "Use as input". Two flips always give back the original text.

Wipe from forwards to backwards

Your line

Hello world

Slide to wipe

Left of the line you see your text. Right of it you see the same spots in the backwards version.

Reverse letters, words or each word: which do you need?

Pick what you want to make. The tool at the top switches to the right mode.

In word order mode, a comma moves with its word. In each word mode, commas and periods stay where they are. To swap capital and small letters instead, use the case converter.

Why emoji and accents can break when you reverse text

One character on your screen can be made of several Unicode characters, called code points. The emoji 👍🏽 is two of them: thumbs up (U+1F44D) and a medium skin tone (U+1F3FD). An é can be a plain e followed by an accent mark, U+0301, that sits on the letter before it.

A simple reverser flips every code point on its own. The skin tone lands in front of the thumb and shows as a colored square. The accent jumps onto the wrong letter or onto a space. Flags are pairs of letters too, so 🇭🇺 (H and U) falls apart into the letters U and H.

This tool groups the pieces first. Unicode calls one visible character a grapheme cluster and sets the rules in Unicode Standard Annex #29. The tool reverses those groups, so every emoji and accented letter stays whole.

Simple reverse or safe reverse?

Try your own text

Simple reverse, one code point at a time

🏽👍 ́efac

🏽U+1F3FD👍U+1F44D␣U+0020◌́U+0301eU+0065fU+0066aU+0061cU+0063

This tool, one visible character at a time

👍🏽 éfac

👍U+1F44D🏽U+1F3FD␣U+0020eU+0065◌́U+0301fU+0066aU+0061cU+0063

Each tile is one code point. Tiles in a frame belong together and move as one block. Orange tiles were torn from their group.

Backwards text vs mirror text vs upside down text

Backwards text changes the order of the letters. Mirror and upside down text change the shape of each letter too. They use lookalike characters from other parts of Unicode, like ɐ (U+0250) and ʇ (U+0287) from the phonetic alphabet. Upside down text also runs in reverse, so it reads right when you turn the screen around.

Unicode has no full mirrored alphabet. A, H and O look the same in a mirror anyway, and b and d can swap places. Letters like G and k have no mirrored twin, so mirror text is always a rough copy. The font converter has upside down and mirrored letters next to many other styles.

Effect	What changes	"Text" becomes	Screen readers
Backwards	Letter order	txeT	Read a strange word or spell it out
Mirrored	Letter order and some shapes	TxɘT	Often spell out odd letters or skip them
Upside down	Letter order and shapes	ʇxǝ⊥	Often spell out odd letters or skip them
Right to left trick	Only how it is shown	‮Text‬	Read the original "Text"

Is it a palindrome?

A palindrome reads the same forwards and backwards, like "level", "racecar" or "Never odd or even". The word comes from the Greek palin, "again", and dromos, "way". The English writer Henry Peacham brought it into English in 1638.

The checker ignores spaces, punctuation, accents and capital letters, like most word puzzles do. The longest palindrome word in the Oxford English Dictionary is "tattarrattat". James Joyce made it up for a knock on the door in his novel Ulysses. You can read more examples in the Wikipedia article on palindromes.

Palindrome check

Type a word or a sentence

Yes, this is a palindromeLetters neveroddorevenBackwards neveroddoreven

How to reverse text in Word, Google Docs and Excel

Word and Google Docs have no button that writes text backwards. The quickest way is a round trip through this page.

CopySelect the text in your document and press Ctrl + C, or Command + C on a Mac.
Paste herePaste it in the box at the top of this page and pick a mode.
Paste backPress Copy text, go back to your document and paste over the old text.

In Excel for Microsoft 365 and Excel 2021, this formula reverses the text in cell A1:

=TEXTJOIN("",TRUE,MID(A1,SEQUENCE(LEN(A1),1,LEN(A1),-1),1))

The formula flips the text one piece at a time, like the simple reverser above, so emoji in the cell come out broken. To clean up a long text before you flip it, open the online text editor.

Does backwards text work on Instagram, TikTok and WhatsApp?

Backwards letters are the same letters you typed, in a new order. Any app that takes normal text takes them, in posts, comments, bios and chats.

The extras are less certain. Upside down text uses rare letters, and an older phone may show some of them as empty boxes. The right to left trick needs a hidden control mark. Some apps delete it, and some refuse it in names. Copy a test line below and paste it where you want to use it.

Text	Made of	Test line
Backwards	Normal letters	olleH
Upside down	Phonetic and other lookalike letters	ollǝH
Right to left trick	Normal letters and the hidden mark U+202E	‮Hello‬

Fun extras with text faces

Some text faces flip things. The table flip face throws your words, and they land upside down. You find four of these faces with your own text in the cards at the top of this page.

Find more in the text face collection and the table flip faces. To put a symbol between every letter, try insert between characters. To cross out or underline a word, use the strikethrough generator.