Word Extractor
Turn a text into a clean list of its words.
Reverse Words
Flip the word order of a sentence without scrambling the letters.
Quick Tool Overview
Reverse Words flips the order of the words in a text while leaving each word spelled correctly — "Hello world" becomes "world Hello", not "dlrow olleH". You can reverse the whole text as one run or each line independently, which is what a list needs.
- What it does
- Reverses word order without scrambling the letters
- You give it
- A sentence, a list or a paragraph
- You get back
- The same words in the opposite order
- Best for
- Word games, language teaching and reordering name fields
About the Reverse Words
Reversing words is not the same as reversing text. "Hello world" reversed as text is "dlrow olleH", which is unreadable. Reversed as words it is "world Hello" — every word still readable, only the order changed. This tool does the second one.
It is used for word games and puzzles, for demonstrating word order in language teaching, and for the small but real job of flipping a name from "Smith, John" order. You can reverse across the whole text or line by line, which matters for a list where each row should be flipped independently, and punctuation can either travel with its word or stay where it was.
Key features of the Reverse Words
Words stay readable
Only the order changes, so every word is still spelled correctly — the difference between this and reversing text.
Line-by-line mode
Reverse the words within each line while the lines themselves stay in order, which is what a list requires.
Punctuation follows its word
A full stop travels with the word it was attached to, or stays at the end of the line — your choice.
Optional sentence fixing
Capitalise the new first word and lower the old one so the result still reads as a sentence.
Nothing is lost
The word count before and after is shown, so you can confirm the reversal dropped nothing.
How to use the Reverse Words
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Paste your text
A sentence, a list or a whole paragraph.
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Choose the scope
Reverse the whole text as one run of words, or reverse each line independently.
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Decide about punctuation
Let punctuation travel with its word, or leave sentence-ending marks in place.
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Copy the result
The reversed text is ready to copy, with a word count to confirm nothing was lost.
Frequently asked questions
Reversing text flips every character, so "Hello world" becomes "dlrow olleH". This flips only the word order, so it becomes "world Hello" — each word stays spelled correctly.
Yes, and that is usually what you want for a list. Line-by-line mode reverses the words within each line while keeping the lines themselves in their original order.
By default it travels with the word it is attached to, so "world." stays "world." even when it moves to the front. There is an option to keep sentence-ending punctuation at the end of the line instead.
Yes — each word keeps exactly the case it had. Switch on sentence fixing if you want the new first word capitalised and the old one lowered.
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