Let’s Jump on the Word-Game Bandt Wagon

We all know what a palindrome is.  Well, I do anyway: a word, phrase or sentence that is spelt the same backward as it is forward. Like ‘reviver’. Or here’s a good one: ‘lepers repel’.

But there is another class of words, at least as interesting as palindromes.   They are those that, spelt backwards, deliver a different but valid word.  Like doom/mood.  Or tool/loot.  Or room/moor. Two-syllable instances are more interesting: tuber/rebut, sued/deus, laced/decal, lever/revel.

Does this interesting class of words also have a name, I hear you ask?  Yes, they do.  They are called bandtograms, named to highlight their essential pointlessness. The examples I have given you are imperfect bandtograms.

Now consider the word ‘drawer’.  If you reverse just the first syllable you get ‘warder’.  This is called a semibandt.  But each of these words, in turn, can be reversed to give a different word – a bandtogram:

drawer/reward to warder/redraw

This is a perfect…