Upside Down Text Generator

How upside down text works

Nothing on your screen is actually rotated. The generator swaps each letter for a different Unicode character that happens to look like that letter turned over, such as ɐ for a and ǝ for e, and then writes the whole line in reverse order. Turn your phone around and it reads normally: “hello world” becomes plɹoʍ ollǝɥ. Because the result is plain text, you can copy it and paste it into a caption, a comment or a chat without anything special on the other end.

How to flip your text

1. Type or paste your words in the box. Until you do, the results show “Upside down text”.
2. Pick a result: upside down, mirrored, or simply backwards.
3. Tap it to copy, then paste wherever you like.
4. Got flipped text from someone? Choose Flip it back to normal, paste it, and read the result that makes sense.

Upside down, mirror or backwards?

• Upside down is rotated 180 degrees: letters are turned over and the order runs right to left. It is the classic “Australia” joke and the most recognizable of the three.
• Mirror flips the text left to right, like writing on the inside of a window. Fewer letters have a mirrored version in Unicode, so letters such as f, g and k stay as typed, and the result says how many.
• Backwards keeps every letter normal and only reverses the order, which makes it the most readable and the safest to paste: it uses only the characters you typed.

Upside down letter chart

Flip generators rarely say which characters they swap in. This chart comes straight from the data the tool uses, with the Unicode code point for each one. “Turned letter” means Unicode has a dedicated upside-down form of that letter (for mirror text, a reversed form). “Same shape” letters, such as o, s and x, look the same when rotated, and “another letter” is an ordinary letter or digit that already is the turned shape, as b turned over is q. A stand-in is borrowed from another alphabet or a set of math symbols because Unicode has no turned version of that letter, or because the stand-in is the long-established choice.

In numbers: of the 62 letters and digits, 16 have a dedicated turned letter, 24 look right using the same or another ordinary character, and 22 need a stand-in, mostly capitals and digits. Mirror text is patchier: 19 characters have no mirrored form at all and stay as typed. Unicode did add proper turned capitals later, such as Ɐ (U+2C6F) and Ʇ (U+A7B1); we keep the older stand-ins that flip tools have long used, and Flip it back to normal reads both.

Fun ways to use upside down text

• A reply that says “my day went” followed by uʍop ǝpᴉsdn.
• Hiding a spoiler or a punchline that people have to turn their phone to read.
• A username or status that stands out in a member list.
• Puzzles, scavenger-hunt clues and classroom brain teasers.

For lines through your words instead of flipped letters, use the strikethrough text generator. Tiny raised letters are on the small text page, and the main fancy text generator has more than 40 other styles.

Frequently Asked Questions