Reverse text online

How to reverse text

1. Paste or type your text into the box.
2. Choose whether to reverse by character, word order, or line order.
3. Click Reverse text.
4. Copy the result or download it as a text file.
5. For palindrome checks, compare the character-reversed output to your original text.

Character reversal flips every character including spaces and punctuation. Word-order reversal keeps each word intact but reverses their sequence. Line-order reversal keeps each line intact but reverses the order of lines.

What each reverse mode does

Character reversal reads your text back to front, one character at a time, including spaces and punctuation — this is what most people mean by "reverse text" and is used for palindrome checks. Word-order reversal splits your text into words and reverses their order while keeping each word spelled normally, useful for testing or novelty effects. Line-order reversal keeps each line of text intact but flips the order lines appear in, useful for reversing a list or a chronological log.

Best practices

• Use character reversal for palindrome checks. Reverse your text, strip spaces and punctuation from both versions, and compare them to check if a phrase reads the same backward.
• Use word-order reversal for language or puzzle exercises rather than trying to manually reorder words.
• Use line-order reversal for lists like reversing a changelog, a ranked list, or a sequence of log entries.

Common mistakes to avoid

• Using character reversal when you meant word-order reversal, which produces unreadable text rather than words in reverse sequence — check the mode dropdown before running.
• Forgetting that character reversal affects punctuation placement too, so a reversed sentence's punctuation will end up at the start, not just the letters.
• Assuming multi-byte characters (emoji, accented letters) always reverse cleanly. This tool reverses by Unicode character, which handles most emoji and accented letters correctly, but some complex emoji sequences (like flags or family emoji built from multiple code points) may not reverse as a single visual unit.

Real-world use cases

• Palindrome and wordplay checks for puzzles or games.
• Testing text-processing code that needs a reversed-string test case.
• Reversing a chronological list (like a changelog or timeline) from newest-first to oldest-first or vice versa.
• Novelty and social media text effects.

Limitations

Character reversal works at the Unicode character level, which handles the vast majority of text correctly but can behave unexpectedly with complex emoji built from multiple combined code points (like some flag or family emoji), since reversing their component characters can break the combined emoji apart visually.

Privacy

Text you reverse is processed locally in your browser. It is not sent to a server, logged, or stored. See the privacy policy for the site's full data handling approach.

Troubleshooting

• If the result looks like scrambled letters instead of reversed words, switch the mode from Characters to Word order.
• If a complex emoji looks broken after reversing, that's a known limitation of character-level reversal on multi-part emoji.
• If you need lines reversed rather than characters or words, choose Line order.

Conclusion

Use character reversal for palindrome checks and novelty text, word-order reversal for language exercises, and line-order reversal for reordering lists. For sorting lines alphabetically instead of reversing their order, see sort text lines.