Reverse Text

“Reverse this text” can mean several things. Spell the whole thing backwards for a puzzle. Flip the word order. Reverse the letters of each word but keep the words in place. Put the last line first. This tool does each of them, and it does them without breaking the characters that trip up simple reversers.

Five ways to reverse

Whole text backwards turns “Hello world” into “dlrow olleH”. Word order turns “Hello big world” into “world big Hello”, line by line, keeping the spacing between words. Letters in each word gives “olleH dlrow”, a classic secret-message style that keeps word boundaries readable. Line order puts the last line first, which turns a log or a chat export into newest-first. Sentence order reverses the sentences within each line or paragraph.

Why emoji and accents survive

Computers store text as code points, and many characters you see are several code points: a thumbs-up with a skin tone, a flag made of two regional letters, a family emoji joined with invisible connectors, or an é written as e plus a combining accent. Reversing code points one by one tears these apart, producing a different flag, a stray skin-tone square or an accent on the wrong letter. This tool reverses whole characters as you see them, using the browser’s grapheme rules, so 🇫🇷 stays 🇫🇷 and é stays é.

Palindrome check

Below the result the tool tells you whether your text is a palindrome: a word or phrase that reads the same backwards. Capitals, spaces, punctuation and accents are ignored, which is how palindromes are usually judged, so “A man, a plan, a canal: Panama!” passes. Single letters and empty text are not counted as palindromes.

Uses

Teachers make backwards-text puzzles and word games. Escape-room designers write clues to be read backwards. Developers reverse strings to test how their software handles complex characters. Anyone with a log, a playlist or a list that is in the wrong order can flip it in one step, and writers can check palindromes before putting one in a story.

Privacy

The text is reversed in your browser and is not uploaded or stored on a server.

A worked example

Type “Hello big world 👋🏽”. Whole text backwards gives “👋🏽 dlrow gib olleH”, with the waving hand and its skin tone still together. Word order gives “👋🏽 world big Hello”. Letters in each word gives “olleH gib dlrow 👋🏽”, leaving the emoji in place because it is not a word. Line order and sentence order leave a single line unchanged, so use them for lists and paragraphs.

Reversing lists and logs

Line order is the mode people use most at work. A chat export, a server log or a list of changes is often written oldest first; reversing the lines puts the latest entry at the top without sorting, so entries with the same time keep their order. Sentence order is useful for writing exercises, where students rebuild a paragraph from its sentences, and for checking how a text reads when its conclusion comes first.

Related tools

Style text with Unicode letters in the Fancy Text Generator, change capitalisation with the Case Converter, and sort or shuffle lines with Sort Text Lines and Shuffle Text Lines.