Text reverser
Flip text backwards by characters, words, lines, or sentences. Unicode-safe so emoji and accented characters stay intact. Live preview, one-click copy.
Unicode-safe character reversal (emoji and accents intact).
About the Text reverser
The text reverser flips your text along whichever axis you choose: by character, by word order, by line order or by sentence order. Pick a mode, paste your text, and the reversed version appears next to the original so you can compare and copy.
Character reversal is handy for puzzles, obfuscation and testing how systems handle reversed strings; reversing word or sentence order is useful for rearranging lists, experimenting with phrasing, or building simple ciphers. Because the character mode is Unicode aware, emoji and accented letters survive the flip instead of being split into broken fragments.
How to use it
- Choose a mode from the dropdown: Reverse characters, Reverse word order, Reverse line order or Reverse sentence order.
- Paste or type your text into the Input box.
- Read the Reversed panel on the right, which updates instantly with the chosen mode.
- Read the short hint under the dropdown to confirm what the current mode does to your text.
- Click Copy result to put the reversed text on your clipboard, or Clear to start again.
Examples
Reversing characters safely with emoji
Input "café 🎉" in character mode and you get "🎉 éfac". The accented e and the party popper emoji stay whole because the reverser splits on Unicode code points, not raw bytes, so multi-byte characters are not mangled.
Flipping word order in a sentence
In word mode, "the quick brown fox" becomes "fox brown quick the". Each word keeps its own spelling and internal letters; only the order of the words is reversed, and the original spacing between tokens is preserved.
Reversing a stack of lines
Paste a five-line list in line mode and the bottom line moves to the top while the top line drops to the bottom. This is a quick way to flip a chronological log or invert a ranked list without sorting it.
Frequently asked questions
- Why use character mode instead of just typing backwards?
- It guarantees correctness for tricky input. Manually reversing a string with emoji, combining accents or non-Latin scripts is error prone, but this tool reverses by Unicode code point so the visible characters come out intact and in reverse order.
- Does reversing word order change the words themselves?
- No. Word mode only reorders the words; the letters inside each word stay in their normal direction. If you want the letters flipped too, use character mode, which reverses everything including spaces.
- How does sentence mode decide where a sentence ends?
- It splits on sentence-ending punctuation, full stops, exclamation marks and question marks, keeping each sentence with its terminator, then reverses the order of those pieces. Fragments without punctuation are treated as their own pieces.
- Is reversed text a secure way to hide information?
- Not really. Reversal is trivial to undo, so treat it as light obfuscation or a fun puzzle, not encryption. Anyone can paste it back into the same tool to recover the original instantly.
- Will line mode keep my blank lines?
- Yes. It splits on newlines and reverses the resulting list, so blank lines are kept as empty entries and simply move to their mirrored position in the output.
Good to know
Reversing by code point matters more than it sounds. A naive reverse that works on UTF-16 units will tear apart surrogate pairs, so an emoji can turn into two invalid characters and accented letters built from a base plus a combining mark can detach. By iterating over code points, character mode avoids the worst of this, which is why it is safe to throw multilingual text and emoji at it.
The four modes answer different needs, so choose deliberately. Character mode is for mirror text, palindrome checks and stress-testing input handling. Word and sentence modes are editorial tools for rearranging order quickly. Line mode pairs well with the sort and deduplicate tools when you want to flip a list before or after cleaning it. None of these modes is encryption, so do not rely on any of them to protect anything sensitive.