French has verlan, a slang in which words are reversed in a similar way, so that we say then differently, but they mean the same thing. “louche” means “suspicious”, but is often said as “chelou”.

It’s not the same effect, but a similar structural pattern.

It’s not even always swapping syllables. Some people say “meuf” as slang for “femme”, even though the word has only one syllable.

I’m not a French speaker from birth, so I don’t know how common this slang is. I know we find it near Paris.