What word is the same backwards and upside down?

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Answer 1

Most of the possible answers have already been listed, or hinted at. But to put it all together.

The sort of word you describe is called an "ambigram" -- the idea is to use calligraphy to make words look that same viewed from any direction.

Dan Brown used this idea in his book *Angels and Demons*, esp. with the word "Illuminati" (Background: An expert in this sort of calligraphy caught the attention of mathematician Dick Brown, who commissioned the man to make one of the name of his son Dan.) BUT please note that in any ORDINARY type "Illuminati" is NOT an ambigram, and that all sorts of words can be turned into one by clever calligraphy.

Also note that, unless you cheat about capitalization rules, you have to use only upper or lower case.

So, for ordinary use --with 'normal' sorts of scripts-- we are left with the following building blocks.


Using only upper-case, which gives us the most possibilities.
*Seven letters which can be used this way: H I O N S X Z
*In addition, M and W are mirror-opposites in many scripts, so can be used as pair.

This gives us:

1) two one-letter words: I, O
2) three two-letter words: SIS, OHO and MOW (XOX, OXO and SOS are generally treated as abbreviations)
3) one four-letter word: NOON
4) one five-letter word: SWIMS (again, as with "MOW" above, only in certain scripts)

There may be some longer ones, but it would take some doing to figure them out.

(I'm also leaving out proper names -- like "ONO"-- since by digging in other languages you might find or create any number!)


Using lower-case:
*mirror-letters: o, l, s, x, z (nearly the same as with upper case, except n doesn't work and l replaces I)
*mirror-pairs: d - p, b - q (though the latter is not very useful!)
( m and w may work, but not in as many scripts)

Results, not very good if you use proper capitalization:
1) from the list above "sis" and "mow" MIGHT work (though it should be "Sis". In any case, not "I" and "O", since in English, when they are used as distinct words they are always supposed to be capitalized)
2) in addition: "pod"

That's about it. Of course, with minor cheating in some scripts you could make a couple of other letters into mirror letters. For instance -- t, which would add at least: tot, toot, otto.
Or you could smuggle in an "i" without the dot [more serious cheating!] to add "dip" and make "swims" work again.

Answer 2

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What word is the same backwards and upside down?
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Answer 3

Illuminati, if written the same way as in Da Vinci Code book.

Answer 4

actually all words are the same backwards and upside down, nothing actually changes a word once it is written

Answer 5

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Hannah

Oh, I see. D'oh! Harsh with the thumbs down tho!

SWIMS

Better?!

Answer 6

OHO, NON, NOON (only works in block capitals)

Answer 7

Been reading the Da Vinci Code, have we?

Answer 8

Topsyturvy?

Aaah right.. OXO... or sis..

Answer 9

The word " I ".

Answer 10

oxo