Upside Down Text Generator
Type a line and get it back turned upside down — ¡ɹǝpuoʍ — with each letter swapped for a lookalike that is its 180-degree rotation, and the order reversed so it reads properly when you turn your screen. Copy it into a bio, a post or a message. Free, no sign-up.
Upside down output
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How to Use the Upside Down Text Generator
- Type or paste your text. The flipped version appears as you type.
- Leave the option unticked for normal upside-down text. The characters are flipped and the order is reversed, so the result reads correctly if you turn the screen 180 degrees.
- Tick the option to keep the letter order. The characters are still flipped but not reversed, so the turned text reads from right to left.
- Copy the result and paste it where you want it.
How the Flip Works
Turning a page upside down does two things: it rotates every letter by 180 degrees, and it sends the last letter to the left. The generator copies both steps. Unicode has no upside-down alphabet, so it swaps each letter for the character that looks most like the rotated one, then reverses the string. "Hello World!" becomes ¡pןɹoM oןןǝH: the exclamation mark, which is last, is first and has been turned into ¡; the d of "World" is now a p, the W is an M, and the H lands at the end unchanged because H looks the same turned around.
| You type | You get | Character it borrows |
|---|---|---|
| a, e, h, m, r, t, w, y | ɐ ǝ ɥ ɯ ɹ ʇ ʍ ʎ | Latin "turned" letters from IPA Extensions (U+0250, U+0265, U+026F, U+0279, U+0287, U+028D, U+028E) and Latin Extended-B (ǝ, U+01DD) |
| b d p q n u | q p d b u n | Each other's twin |
| A, T, U, V | ∀ ⊥ ∩ Λ | Math symbols (U+2200 FOR ALL, U+22A5 UP TACK, U+2229) and Greek capital lambda |
| F, G, Y, & | Ⅎ ⅁ ⅄ ⅋ | Letterlike Symbols, which has "turned" capitals (U+2132, U+2141, U+2144, U+214B) |
| B | ᗺ | Canadian Aboriginal syllabics carrier kha (U+15FA), from the same block as the ᗡ used for D |
| K | ꓘ | Lisu letter kha (U+A4D8), a capital-height turned K; lowercase k becomes ʞ (U+029E) |
| 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 | Ɩ ᄅ Ɛ ㄣ ϛ 9 ㄥ 6 | Digits drawn from Latin, Hangul, Bopomofo and Greek |
| ? ! . , ( ) [ ] { } < > | ¿ ¡ ˙ ' ) ( ] [ } { > < | Spanish inverted marks, a raised dot, and mirrored brackets |
Some letters are already symmetric under a 180-degree turn — H, I, N, O, S, X and Z, plus 0 and 8 — and stay as they are. M and W swap with each other. That is why a word like SWIMS, or NOON, reads the same upside down: SWIMS comes out as SWIMS.
What Stays Unflipped, and Why Some Letters Look Odd
Only the characters in the table above and the ones that map to themselves are changed. Accented letters, other writing systems, emoji and spaces pass through unflipped, though a reversed string will still put them in reverse order. The lookalikes come from more than a dozen scripts and symbol blocks, so some are only approximate: Q becomes the Greek letter Ό and L becomes a raised tone bar. Capital B uses ᗺ, which sits in the same block as the ᗡ for D and so needs no extra font. Capital K uses ꓘ from the Lisu block, which matches a turned K in size and shape but is missing from a few older fonts, where it shows as an empty box; the lowercase ʞ it replaced is in nearly every font but is the wrong height. If a word looks wrong, check it on a second device before you post.
Which Tool Do You Need?
| You want | Use |
|---|---|
| Text that looks turned around, ʇxǝʇ ǝʞᴉן ʇᴉɥʇ | This page |
| Plain letters in reverse order ("dlrow olleh"), reversed words or reversed lines | Backwards Text Generator |
| Mirror-image letters, such as ɘ and ᴎ | Neither tool draws these; they need a font or image editor |
A note on accessibility
Upside-down text is built from characters borrowed from unrelated alphabets, so a screen reader may read it by their names ("latin small letter turned a"), say nothing or spell nonsense. Search, spell check and translation cannot read it as words either. Use it for a joke, a short caption or a bio line, and put anything important in plain text.
Frequently Asked Questions
- How do I write upside down text?
- Type your words in the box above and copy the output. The tool replaces each letter with a Unicode lookalike of its 180-degree rotation and reverses the order, so the result reads correctly when the screen is turned upside down.
- How does flipped text work if there is no upside-down font?
- It borrows. Unicode includes IPA phonetic letters such as ɐ and ɹ that are literally turned versions of Latin letters, a few turned capitals such as Ⅎ, and symbols such as ∀ and ⊥ that happen to look like rotated A and T. The generator picks the best lookalike for each key.
- What does the option to keep the letter order do?
- Normally the text is flipped and also reversed, because a rotated line reads right to left. If you tick the option the characters are flipped but their order is left alone, so the rotated text reads in reverse. Leave it unticked for the usual upside-down effect.
- Why do some characters look wrong or show as boxes?
- A few lookalikes come from rare scripts. The K is a Lisu letter, some digits come from Hangul or Bopomofo, and fonts without those blocks show empty boxes. The lookalikes are also approximate, for example Q and L.
- Which words read the same upside down?
- Words built from H, I, N, O, S, X, Z and the pair M/W read the same, such as NOON, SWIMS and SOS. Lowercase works too when the letter pairs b/q, d/p and n/u line up, so "pod" survives, but few words do.
- Is this the same as backwards or mirror text?
- No. Backwards text only reverses the order of plain letters. Upside-down text also replaces each letter with a rotated lookalike. Mirror text, which reflects each letter left to right, is a third effect that neither tool produces.