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Drapel is the word leopard spelled backwords what do you call such words?

Words like "drapel" and "leopard" spelled backwards are called "semordnilaps".

It's a fun wordplay term, formed by reversing the word "palindrome" (a word that reads the same backwards and forwards).

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