Reverse Text

How this calculation works

Pick what to reverse — the characters, the word order, or the line order — and the tool does it locally. Character reversal splits on Unicode code points rather than raw bytes, so multi-byte characters like emoji are not corrupted.

What the results mean

Characters

Every character in reverse order. "abc" becomes "cba".

Words

Word order reversed, spacing kept. Useful for certain text puzzles and layout tests.

Common problems and fixes

My accented letters lost their accents

The text uses combining characters — an "e" followed by a separate accent mark — rather than a single precomposed character. Reversing by code point puts the accent before its letter, where it attaches to the wrong one. Normalising the text to its composed form first, which most editors can do on save, avoids it.

The reversed text reads correctly but displays oddly

Mixing scripts with different reading directions does this. Reversing a line containing both Latin and Arabic or Hebrew produces text whose underlying order is correct but whose display order is decided by the bidirectional algorithm, so the visual result rarely matches what you expected.

I wanted the lines in reverse order, not the characters

Switch the mode. Character reversal turns "abc" into "cba", word reversal keeps each word intact and flips their order, and line reversal leaves every line untouched while reversing the sequence — which is what you want for putting a log back into chronological order.

Frequently asked questions

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