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Reverse Text Generator

Flip text backwards by letters, words or lines

By Guga — BrowserTools maintainer, Tbilisi, Georgia Updated 2026-08-14
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What is Reverse Text Generator?

Three different reversals, and they produce very different-looking results. Reversing by character gives the backwards or mirror text you see in puzzles, reversing by word order gives the same words in the opposite sequence, and reversing by line order turns a list upside down while leaving each line readable. The character mode works on code points rather than UTF-16 units, so a surrogate pair moves as one character and an emoji stays intact instead of being torn into two invalid halves. Two artefacts are worth knowing about. A combining accent is a separate code point, so decomposed text such as an accented vowel built from a base letter and a mark will come back with the mark in the wrong place. And a Windows line break reverses into a carriage return followed by a line feed — the wrong order. The same panel also hosts the other list operations.

Reverse any text instantly — character by character, word by word, or line by line. A fun effect for puzzles and games, and a handy utility for cleaning mirrored or RTL-pasted text.

Private Reverse Text Generator In Your Browser

Reverse Text Generator is processed locally with client-side JavaScript. Your files never touch a server, and there is no queue to wait in.

Step-by-Step

How to use Reverse Text Generator

1

Paste your text into the box labelled Input; the line count appears under its label.

2

Choose the operation from the dropdown, which opens on Reverse text (characters).

3

Read the Result panel below, which recalculates on every change to the input.

4

Switch to Reverse word order or Reverse line order if the character-level flip is not what you meant.

Key Capabilities
  • Character, word-order and line-order reversals available from one dropdown
  • Operates on code points, so multi-unit characters such as emoji move as a unit
  • Twelve other list operations in the same panel, including sorting and deduplication
  • Live result with no apply step
Common Use Cases
  • A person setting a puzzle clue that hides a word by writing it backwards.
  • Someone checking whether a string is a palindrome, since a palindrome is unchanged by the operation.
  • A developer testing how their code handles reverse iteration over a list of lines.
Clear Answers

Frequently Asked Questions

Why did my emoji stay in one piece?
Because the reversal iterates code points, and an emoji above the basic multilingual plane is a single code point even though it occupies two storage units. Splitting the string into storage units first would have reversed the high and low halves of the pair and produced two broken characters instead.
Why did an accented letter come back mangled?
The accent and the letter it belongs to are stored as two separate code points, and a reversal cannot know they belong together. Reverse é written as a precomposed character and it returns intact; reverse it written in decomposed form and the mark lands in front of the base letter. Precomposed text, which is what most keyboards and editors produce, does not have this problem.
What happens to Windows line breaks?
They reverse into the wrong order — a line feed followed by a carriage return instead of a carriage return and line feed. The text looks the same in most editors, because a lone line feed still breaks the line, but the bytes are not what a Windows tool expects. Normalise line endings first if that matters.
Which other operations share this panel?
Sorting alphabetically, numerically or by length, shuffling, removing duplicate lines, removing empty lines, stripping line breaks, repeating text and the two other reversal modes. The dropdown changes which options are relevant, and the same underlying routine handles all of them.