Helping my daughter with a codewars problem

reversed_pairs.py

def reversed_pairs(wordlist):
    if len(wordlist) == 0:
        return []

    word = wordlist[0]
    other_words = wordlist[1:]
    pair = []

    for w in other_words:
        if word[::-1] == w:
            pair = [[word, w]]
            break

    return pair + reversed_pairs(other_words)

print(reversed_pairs(['hi', 'hello', 'ih', 'the', 'olleh']))