In the French language, verlan is the inversion of syllables in a word which is found in slang and youth language. It rests on a long French tradition of transposing syllables of individual words to create slang words. The name verlan is itself an example: verlan = lan ver = l'envers (meaning the inverse). General characteristics and some examples Below is an English approximation of verlan, which could be called versin (inverse). » My piano is broken, phooey. /mai pijanou 'iz broukən f… (More on Verlan)