reverse spelling
The spelling or writing of a word in reverse or from back to front.
Noun
- The spelling or writing of a word in reverse or from back to front.
- Teaching assistants monitored accuracy of reverse spelling. Later in the session, students were asked to spell words in writing from each of the word sets practiced in the session. - 2006 November 1, Suzanne Hidi,...
- He is perhaps better known for his grotesque tales which he published in a variety of Expressionist journals under the pseudonym Mynona, a reverse spelling of the German word for anonymous. - 2013, Seth Taylor,...
- Reverse spelling is one example of the ability to reverse a sequential order that is difficult for persons with aphasia (language impairment) or other organic mental disorders (Bender, 1975). Reverse spelling has been...
Hyponyms: anadrome semordnilap
- A specific spelling of a word representing a phonetic feature never present in it, but present in other words in the same phonetic environment (and later lost); an inverse spelling.
- The loss of ȝ between a front vowel and t, which Wyld finds in the middle of the fifteenth century but assigns to an earlier date,³⁵ is shown by both rhyme and spelling in knyght:whight (white) 562-63. The reverse...
- […]several cases of reverse spelling of ae for /ē/, especially in accented syllable^([sic]), however, do show that a close pronunciation of the e from ae was possible, and the Romance languages do posit a close /ē/ for...
- Beside ninety-odd correct ea spellings, Belfour IX has twelve plainly monophthongized and one reverse spelling, with a penumbra of phonetically special cases. - 1992, Folia Linguistica Historica: Acta Societatis...