Riddle stuff help needed

#1

Hi guys i’m new and I think this site is awesome. I don’t know if this is the place to post it, but I have an idea for a story and I have a good plot, but I was also thinking about putting a secret code/riddle in it. It’s one of those, “find the secret word” things.

Is it too obvious? This is what the riddle will be:
"Find the secret word. irbfiwlrnxesttubsoowk

#2

Is it stubs

#3

No, that’s not it. Although I can see how you would have guessed that.

#4

Is it books

#5

You’re getting warmer, but no.

#6

Maybe have some kind of tiny hint as to what word the reader is looking for because you can make multiple words using these letters.

#7

Thanks for the suggestion, i’ll put hints in my story

#8

If I hold my screen up to a mirror, am I going to see the answer or were those letters coincidentally put together?

#9

If you want I could just tell you what the secret word is

#10

Also there’s no U. I meant that to be an A.

#11

Well there goes my answer: buttsex

#12

tubs/tabs?

#13

What the fuck? Ohhhh I see. Backwards it has that word in it xD

#14

Not quite but pretty close

#15

Bookends!!! Right! Right? …right?

#16

Bat? Inverse

#17

Almost. Hint: It’s a type of battle

#18

Not quite, but good guess.

#19

Wait, buttsex backwards wasn’t intentional?

Also, is it stab?

Edit: Wait of course it wasn’t intentional. The U was meant to be an A. Don’t know how I forgot that straight away.

#20

Extremely close, but no.