How a Flip Is Assembled
There is no character property that rotates a glyph. The converter instead looks up a look-alike for each letter turned 180 degrees — u for n, d for p, and characters borrowed from the phonetic alphabet for the rest — then reverses the order of the string. Punctuation and digits are handled the same way, with a few letters left unchanged where no convincing match exists.
Three Different Transformations
The three styles here are easy to confuse. Only one actually rotates glyphs; the others change direction or reflection, and they have very different compatibility profiles.
- Upside down rotates each letter and reverses the whole string.
- Mirrored reflects glyphs horizontally, so the line reads right to left.
- Reversed only reverses the order and keeps ASCII characters, making it the most portable.
- The phonetic look-alikes are the ones most likely to be missing from an older font.
Before You Paste It
Copy with the button rather than selecting by hand on a phone: because the string is written right to left, dragging selection handles often grabs the wrong segment or splits a code point. Flipped text is also effectively invisible to search and impossible to type from memory, so it belongs in a joke, a riddle answer or an easter egg rather than a permanent name. If the aim is to hide a spoiler, Discord’s built-in spoiler tag is the accessible option.
For a different kind of visual disruption, the glitch text converter stacks combining marks rather than rotating letters.
Each family below has its own page with coverage notes and a character counter. The main converter shows all of them at once if you would rather compare across families.