Reversibles

[chessbot]

1) How many words can we come up with that, when reversed, are another word? Examples:
not and ton
gnat and tang

2) Can anyone provide (i.e. find or make up) a name for this?

--Chessbot

"In that blessed region of Four Dimensions, shall we linger on the threshold of the Fifth, and not enter therein? Ah, no! [...] Then, yielding to our intellectual onset, the gates of the Sixth Dimension shall fly open; after that a Seventh, and then an Eighth -- --" Flatland, A. Square (E. A. Abbott)

 

[ESquared]

You *don't* want me to run this against my dictionary database.

 

[chessbot]

Something like this?

select word from dictionary where reverse(word) in word

Prefer not, but you can, I guess.

Or at least wait until some others have posted, or come up with a number and how many letters the longest has.

--Chessbot

"In that blessed region of Four Dimensions, shall we linger on the threshold of the Fifth, and not enter therein? Ah, no! [...] Then, yielding to our intellectual onset, the gates of the Sixth Dimension shall fly open; after that a Seventh, and then an Eighth -- --" Flatland, A. Square (E. A. Abbott)

 

[Lothario]

tap,pat
bat,tab
nip,pin
tar,rat
pit,tip
net,ten
keep,peek
deem,meed
deep,peed
deer,reed
feel,leef


-L

 

[ESquared]

That would only work for words like radar, mom, and pop.

longest: desserts
interesting: deliver, deifier
names: Dennis sinned, Kramer remark, Latimer remital, Elbert treble

 

[chessbot]

Forgot to mention it, but these are good for all you Boggle players out there.

--Chessbot

"In that blessed region of Four Dimensions, shall we linger on the threshold of the Fifth, and not enter therein? Ah, no! [...] Then, yielding to our intellectual onset, the gates of the Sixth Dimension shall fly open; after that a Seventh, and then an Eighth -- --" Flatland, A. Square (E. A. Abbott)

 

[chessbot]

So what is your query?

--Chessbot

"In that blessed region of Four Dimensions, shall we linger on the threshold of the Fifth, and not enter therein? Ah, no! [...] Then, yielding to our intellectual onset, the gates of the Sixth Dimension shall fly open; after that a Seventh, and then an Eighth -- --" Flatland, A. Square (E. A. Abbott)

 

[ESquared]

SELECT D1.Word, D2.Word, D1.WordLength from Dictionary D1
INNER JOIN Dictionary D2 ON D1.Word < D2.Word AND Reverse(D1.Word) = D2.Word Order by D1.WordLength

 

[SantaMufasa]

Erik,

Did I miss something on "deliver, deifier"? Shouldn't it be "deliver, reviled"?

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[mbarron]

Yes Santa, you missed something

deliver - reviled
deifier - reified



Mike

 

[ESquared]

My notation was perhaps unclear. But Mike is correct.

 

[vidru]

Because I pieced together a dictionary table today:

reward - drawer
diaper - repaid
leper - repel
nedder - redden
lamina - animal
lager - regal
tuber - rebut
sleek - keels

-dave

 

[mscallisto]

Esquared

Can you tell us how many there are?

just curious

 

[mscallisto]

every time I see an advertisement for Tums I snicker!

 

[ESquared]

There are 688 but my dictionary is full of a lot of garbage words like abbreviations, acronyms, and proper nouns. Examples:

AFB bfa
OAS sao
rem MER
ism MSI
ABM mba
BAL lab

I would dearly love to find a dictionary that gave part of speech, and indicated whether the word was an abbreviation, acronym, proper noun, suffix, prefix, etc.

 

[mscallisto]

Start typing!!!
Save a copy for me!!

 

[ESquared]

yes, mscallisto, I see everyday words backwards all the time. Wordplay just happens in my mind without conscious effort.

Flood maps - mud flaps
Tums - smut
Allstar - Rat Slaw (? )