levidrome

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UK/ˈliːvaɪdɹəʊm/UK/ˈliːvɪdɹəʊm/US/ˈlivaɪdɹoʊm/US/ˈlivɪdɹoʊm/

noun

A word with a different definition when the spelling is reversed.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

nounlevidrome (plural levidromes)

plural levidromes

  1. neologismA word with a different definition when the spelling is reversed.

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

    2017 October 15, Jack Knox, “This Budd’s for you, and he loves a ‘levidrome’”, in Times Colonist, retrieved 28 Jan 2018
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    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.’”

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

    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.

    2018 January 29, “B.C. boy's invented word gaining traction, celebrity endorsements”, in CTV News, archived from the original on 27 Jan 2018

    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.

    2019 January 17, RJ Andrews, Info We Trust: How to Inspire the World with Data, page 53

    Synonyms: anadrome, heteropalindrome, semordnilap

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA word with a different definition when the spelling is reversed.

Origin

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

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Cite this entry
APA

levidrome. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/levidrome

MLA

“levidrome.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/levidrome. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “levidrome,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/levidrome.

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