Name a few words which are not palindromes, but when they are reversed they still have a meaning?

Question

i.e. if the word is reversed, it becomes a different word, but this reverse word has a meaning

Answer 1

A word which spells a different word when reversed is called an "anadrome" or "semordnilap" (note that semordnilap is palindrome backwards).

Examples:

stressed / desserts

gateman / nametag

deliver / reviled

straw / warts

star / rats

stop / pots

snap / pans

pins / snip

lived / devil

diaper / repaid

smart / trams

spit / tips

live / evil

dog / god

gut / tug

maps / spam

tap / pat

ward / draw

drawer / reward

nip / pin

mood / doom

stop / pots

Answer 2

Some of my favorite words like that use the same four letters but in different sequences, with all different meanings: STOP, POTS, TOPS, OPTS, SPOT, POST

Answer 3

a guy, a plan, a canal: Panama. tattarrattat - coined by using James Joyce in Ulysses for a knock on the door. detartrated - the previous annoying of detartrate, a incredibly contrived chemical term intending to eliminate tartrates.

Answer 4

bad = dab

trot = tort (as in tort reform)

cart = trac (a stretch, but trac is a widely used acronym

tar = rat

live = evil

was = saw

but = tub

Answer 5

trap - part

spot - tops

rail - liar

ram - mar

now - won

top - pot

spam - maps

trig - girt

seel - lees

mart - tram



and surely many more, just takes a little more time to think of them....

Answer 6

live - evil



evian - naive



thats all i got...

Answer 7

Bonk - Knob!

Answer 8

dog -- god