Words that can be read in more than one way
Ambigrams come in several forms. They can be words that read the same when rotated 180° (ie. pod), words that reflect vertically (ie. MOM), words that relect horizontally (ie. BOB), words in which every letter is the same glyph (called spinonyms), and words that when reflected in a mirror at 45° read the same only changing from reading horizontally to vertically (called 45° reflections). Words can also invert into different words (MOM reflected horizontally becomes WOW).
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Names Family and friends |
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Other Wordplay Other than ambigrams... |
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Ambigramautomata Ambigramical devices that move |
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Regular ambigrams Names and words that rotate or reflect |
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Spinonyms Words that use a single symbol called a glyph, which is rotated and/or reflected, to form every letter in the word |
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45° Reflections A most unusual type of ambigram, where a word changes from reading horizontally to vertically |
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