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Cross-Language Semordnilaps

A revolutionary linguistic discovery: English words that reverse to form valid words in other languages.

What Are Cross-Language Semordnilaps?

While traditional semordnilaps reverse to form different English words (like "drawer" ↔ "reward"), cross-language semordnilaps are English words that when reversed form valid words in other languages.

Examples:

Statistics

Discovery Statistics

From analyzing just the first 50,000 English words, we discovered 855 cross-language pairs across 9 languages!

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What's Next?

This analysis represents just the beginning! We've only examined the first 50,000 English words from a dictionary containing over 369,000 words. The complete analysis could reveal thousands more cross-language pairs.

Planned expansions: