levidrome

English
This English term is a hot word. Its inclusion on Wiktionary is provisional.

Etymology

From Levi (word was coined by Levi Budd) + -drome by analogy with palindrome.[1]

Noun

levidrome (plural levidromes)

  1. A word with a different definition when the spelling is reversed, such as "pots" becoming "stop".[2][3][4][5]
    • 2017 October 15, Jack Knox, “This Budd’s for you, and he loves a ‘levidrome’”, in Times Colonist‎, retrieved 28 Jan 2018:
      One classmate offered up "part" and "trap" as a levidrome on Friday.
    • 2019 January 17, RJ Andrews, Info We Trust: How to Inspire the World with Data‎, 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.

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References
  1. Jack Knox: This Budd’s for you, and he loves a ‘levidrome’
  2. B.C. boy's invented word gaining traction, celebrity endorsements
  3. Victoria boy’s new word, ‘levidrome,’ on its way to Oxford Dictionary
  4. Six-year-old Victoria boy’s invented word gets support from William Shatner, Patricia Arquette
  5. Oxford Dictionaries: Levidrome

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