Reverse Word Order
Reverse the order of words, keeping each word intact.
Overview
Reverse the order of words in your input while leaving each word's spelling intact. "Hello World" becomes "World Hello"; "the quick brown fox" becomes "fox brown quick the". The letters inside each word stay in their original sequence.
Writers exploring sentence rhythm by reading their prose backwards, comedians playing with Yoda-style phrasing, language teachers demonstrating word-order rules, and puzzle makers all use it. It's also a quick way to spot sentences that work surprisingly well in either direction.
How it works
The tool splits your input on whitespace into a sequence of word tokens, reverses that sequence, and joins them back together with single spaces. Internal punctuation typically stays attached to its original word, but most implementations offer an option to "smart-strip" trailing punctuation so it ends up at the right side of the new sentence.
Examples
Input: Hello World
Output: World Hello
Input: the quick brown fox jumps
Output: jumps fox brown quick the
Input: one two three. four five
Output: five four three. two one (or "five four. three two one" in smart-strip mode)
FAQ
Does it preserve punctuation?
Punctuation stays attached to its original word by default. Smart-strip mode handles trailing periods and commas more intelligently so the reversed sentence reads cleanly.
How does it handle multiple spaces?
Runs of whitespace are collapsed to single spaces in the output. If you need exact whitespace preservation, the tool offers a stricter mode that maintains the original separator characters between tokens.
What's the difference from Mirror Text and Reverse Each Word?
Mirror Text reverses every character. Reverse Each Word flips letters within words. This tool reverses word order while keeping each word's letters in place.