Noitats
Noitats is a term used in wordplay and puzzle communities to describe a word that yields another valid word when its letters are reversed. The name Noitats itself is the reverse of the English word station, making it a canonical example of such reversals. In linguistic and puzzle contexts, words like station and noitats are cited as instances of semordnilaps, a term used to describe word pairs that form valid words when one is written backward.
The concept is primarily of interest in recreational linguistics rather than formal lexicography. Noitats can appear
Limitations: Not all reversals yield valid words; the class is limited to pairs in which both directions
See also: semordnilap; reversing word; wordplay; palindromes (though not palindromic).