diff --git a/Lib/tkinter/__init__.py b/Lib/tkinter/__init__.py
index 99ad2a7c011..25fe645a93c 100644
--- a/Lib/tkinter/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/tkinter/__init__.py
@@ -2261,9 +2261,9 @@ def _setup(self, master, cnf):
             count = master._last_child_ids.get(name, 0) + 1
             master._last_child_ids[name] = count
             if count == 1:
-                name = '`%s' % (name,)
+                name = '!%s' % (name,)
             else:
-                name = '`%s%d' % (name, count)
+                name = '!%s%d' % (name, count)
         self._name = name
         if master._w=='.':
             self._w = '.' + name
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 2ac80517304..e0d8d55ad83 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -19,17 +19,6 @@ Core and Builtins
 - Issue #23782: Fixed possible memory leak in _PyTraceback_Add() and exception
   loss in PyTraceBack_Here().
 
-- Issue #25464: Fixed HList.header_exists() in tkinter.tix module by addin
-  a workaround to Tix library bug.
-
-- Issue #28488: shutil.make_archive() no longer adds entry "./" to ZIP archive.
-
-- Issue #25953: re.sub() now raises an error for invalid numerical group
-  reference in replacement template even if the pattern is not found in
-  the string.  Error message for invalid group reference now includes the
-  group index and the position of the reference.
-  Based on patch by SilentGhost.
-
 - Issue #28183: Optimize and cleanup dict iteration.
 
 - Issue #26081: Added C implementation of asyncio.Future.
@@ -105,6 +94,20 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #27025: Generated names for Tkinter widgets now start by the "!" prefix
+  for readability (was "`").
+
+- Issue #25464: Fixed HList.header_exists() in tkinter.tix module by addin
+  a workaround to Tix library bug.
+
+- Issue #28488: shutil.make_archive() no longer adds entry "./" to ZIP archive.
+
+- Issue #25953: re.sub() now raises an error for invalid numerical group
+  reference in replacement template even if the pattern is not found in
+  the string.  Error message for invalid group reference now includes the
+  group index and the position of the reference.
+  Based on patch by SilentGhost.
+
 - Issue #28469: timeit now uses the sequence 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50,... instead
   of 1, 10, 100,... for autoranging.
 
@@ -1364,6 +1367,9 @@ Library
   exposed on the API which are not implemented on GNU/Hurd. They would not
   work at runtime anyway.
 
+- Issue #27025: Generated names for Tkinter widgets are now more meanful
+  and recognizirable.
+
 - Issue #25455: Fixed crashes in repr of recursive ElementTree.Element and
   functools.partial objects.