How to use the upside down text generator
- 1Type your text into Your text.
- 2Copy Upside down (flipped and reversed) for text that reads correctly when turned round, or Flipped only (original order).
- 3To turn upside-down text back, paste it in: a Flipped back to normal row appears at the top.
Example
Hello world, this is upside down!
¡uʍop ǝpᴉsdn sᴉ sᴉɥʇ 'plɹoʍ ollǝH
Upside down (flipped and reversed). Pasting this result back into the box gives “Hello world, this is upside down!” in the Flipped back to normal row.
How upside-down text works
Text can't really be rotated in a plain text field, so the tool swaps each character for one that looks like it turned 180°: “a” becomes “ɐ”, “e” becomes “ǝ”, “h” becomes “ɥ”, “!” becomes “¡”. The look-alikes come from the International Phonetic Alphabet, Latin extensions and a few other Unicode blocks. Then the order is reversed, because turning a line round also puts its last letter first. The mapping is fixed, so the same text always gives the same result.
Flipped and reversed vs flipped only
Upside down (flipped and reversed) is what you see if you turn a sheet of paper round: it reads correctly when the phone is upside down. Flipped only (original order) keeps the reading order and only flips each character, which some people prefer for usernames: “Hǝllo ʍoɹlp'”. Mirrored under the same heading flips text left to right instead; for plain backwards text, use the reverse text generator.
Characters that can't be flipped
Every basic Latin letter, digit and common punctuation mark has a flipped look-alike, but some are imperfect: the flipped digits 2, 4 and 7 borrow from Korean and Chinese phonetic letters and may look wider, and a few capitals (such as Q and K) use rarer characters that some fonts draw differently. Accented letters, other alphabets and emoji are not flipped; they stay as they are and are only moved by the reversal. That is why some letters look slightly off.
Where upside-down text displays correctly
The characters are in the standard fonts on current phones and computers, so upside-down text shows in WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok, Discord, X and most chats. A few apps strip unusual characters from names. Screen readers will read the look-alikes as phonetic symbols or skip them, so don't use flipped text for anything people must understand. For other styles see the small text and bold text generators.
Is my text private?
This tool runs entirely in your browser. Your text is not uploaded to our servers.