levidrome

English

Etymology

Coined by Levi Budd, from his name Levi +‎ -drome by analogy with palindrome.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈliːvaɪdɹəʊm/, /ˈliːvɪdɹəʊm/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlivaɪdɹoʊm/, /ˈlivɪdɹoʊm/

Noun

Examples
pots → stop

levidrome (plural levidromes)

1. (neologism) A word with a different definition when the spelling is reversed.
   • 2017 October 15, Jack Knox, “This Budd’s for you, and he loves a ‘levidrome’”, in Times Colonist‎^[1], retrieved 28 January 2018:

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

   • 2017 November 21, Camille Bains, “Six-year-old Victoria boy’s invented word gets support from William Shatner, Patricia Arquette”, in The Star‎^[2]:

     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.’”

   • 2018 January 29, “B.C. boy's invented word gaining traction, celebrity endorsements”, in CTV News‎^[3]:

     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.

   • 2019 January 17, RJ Andrews, Info We Trust: How to Inspire the World with Data‎^[4], page 53:

     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.

Synonyms

• anadrome, heteropalindrome, semordnilap

Anagrams

• overlimed