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Reverse word order

Reverse the order of the words on each line (keeping the letters intact).

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Reverse each wordReverse the letters inside each word while keeping the word order.Reverse textReverse text by characters, words or lines.One word per lineSplit text so that every word is on its own line.Word wrap textWrap long lines to a maximum width without breaking words.Word counterCount words, characters, sentences and reading time instantly.Word frequency counterCount how often each word appears in your text, ranked from most to least.Add line numbersPrefix every line of your text with a sequential line number.Alphabetize wordsSort all the words in your text into alphabetical order.

Reverse word order is free to use as often as you like, directly from this page. It sits under Transform & clean in our catalogue, alongside Reverse each word and Reverse text.

How to use it

  1. Open the tool — no signup or install needed.
  2. Enter your input or adjust the available options.
  3. Get your result instantly, then copy or download it.

Frequently asked questions

What is Reverse word order?

Reverse the order of the words on each line (keeping the letters intact).

When would I actually use this?

Cleaning up a paste before it goes anywhere: stripping duplicates from a list, normalising case, removing accents for a filename, or sorting lines.

What is the most common mistake?

Sorting text as if it were ASCII. Accented letters land after Z in a byte sort, which puts "Zurich" before "Émile" and produces a list no reader will accept.

How is Reverse word order different from Reverse each word?

They sit next to each other but answer different questions: Reverse each word is the one to open when you need it to reverse the letters inside each word while keeping the word order. Pick whichever matches what you're starting from — both are free.

Is there a tool for the next step?

Reverse text is the closest one after this: Reverse text by characters, words or lines.

What else is worth having open alongside it?

One word per line and Word wrap text — they come up in the same task often enough to be worth a second tab.

Where do the figures come from?

Transformations use the browser's Unicode-aware string handling, so case changes and sorting respect the locale rather than byte order. Nothing is truncated: what comes out is the whole of what went in.

Further reading

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ExplainerWhere a Line May Break: The Unicode Algorithm Behind Every Wrapped Paragraph"Break at spaces" fails in most of the world's writing systems. UAX #14 gives every character a line-break class; we looked ours up in Unicode 17.0.0 and ran a conforming implementation over no-break spaces, soft hyphens, zero-width spaces, URLs, Japanese and Thai.GuideConverting Between List Formats Without Losing Data: The Quoting Rules Nobody ReadsTurning a newline list into a comma list is trivial until an item contains a comma. RFC 4180's quoting rules, why a CSV field may contain a newline, why European spreadsheets use the semicolon, and what an empty item does to a round trip — every case run and printed.ExplainerWord Frequency and Zipf's Law: We Counted Six Books in Six Languages and Fitted the SlopeThe nth most common word appears about 1/n as often as the first. We counted six public-domain books, printed rank × frequency, fitted log frequency against log rank, and got slopes between -1.02 and -1.08 in all six languages — plus the two places the law breaks.ExplainerCounting Characters Against a Limit Someone Else SetOne emoji is 1 character, or 7, or 11, or 25, depending on who is counting. Which one your form, your database and your SMS gateway mean — and a one-paste test that tells you which you are facing.ExplainerDetecting the Language of a Text, and Why Short Texts FailMeasured, not asserted: 90 short real phrases across six languages, none declined and 68 right — 76%, falling to 64% under sixteen letters. Four of the wrong answers came back at 100% confidence.How-toNumbering the Lines of a Text for a Review with Several PeopleNumbering starts at 1 and cannot be set to 0, the alignment is spaces rather than zeros, and the remover undoes eight of the eleven separators without touching the indentation. What it still cannot do is tell your numbers from its own.