mirror writing
Flip to read
Mirror writing is text written in reverse, appearing normal only when viewed in a mirror.
The letters run right to left and are individually reversed.
Leonardo da Vinci famously used it in his notebooks.
Children sometimes produce mirror writing accidentally while learning to write.
The note was in mirror writing—I had to hold it up to the bathroom mirror to read it.
- backwardsToward what's behind
- reversedFlipped to opposite orientation
- LeonardoItalian masculine name
- da VinciItalian locative surname element
- reflectionReturned light or thought
looking glass · handwriting · dyslexia · cipher · secret · secret message · code · left-handed · left to right · script · illegible · calligraphy · flip · inversion · symmetry · tracing · pen · ink
- Leonardo da VinciMona Lisa, Last Supper, Vitruvian Man, Annunciation, notebooks
- mirror imagesreflection, reverse image, flip, inversion, water reflection
- reading difficultiesdyslexia, alexia, reading disorder, reading difficulty, word blindness
- cipherscipher, Caesar cipher, substitution cipher, ciphertext, plaintext
- word gamescrossword, Scrabble, crossword puzzle, anagram, word game
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