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Palindrome words

A palindrome reads the same forwards and backwards, like LEVEL or RADAR. Our word list has 101 palindromes of three or more letters. The longest have 7 letters: DEIFIED, HALALAH, REIFIER, REPAPER, REVIVER, ROTATOR, SEMEMES.

Key facts
Palindromes (3+ letters)101
LongestDEIFIED, HALALAH, REIFIER, REPAPER, REVIVER, ROTATOR, SEMEMES

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Updated by Daniel Gavalec. Numbers calculated from our word list.

All palindromes in our list

ABA, ABBA, AGA, AHA, ALA, ALULA, AMA, ANA, ANNA, AVA, AWA, BIB, BOB, BOOB, BUB, CIVIC, DAD, DEED, DEIFIED, DEKED, DELED, DENNED, DEWED, DID, DUD, EKE, EME, ERE, EVE, EWE, EYE, GAG, GIG, HAH, HALALAH, HALLAH, HEH, HUH, KAIAK, KAYAK, KEEK, KOOK, LEVEL, MADAM, MARRAM, MEM, MIM, MINIM, MOM, MUM, NAAN, NAN, NOON, NUN, OHO, OTTO, OXO, PAP, PEEP, PEP, PIP, POOP, POP, PULLUP, PUP, RADAR, REDDER, REFER, REIFIER, REPAPER, REVIVER, ROTATOR, ROTOR, SAGAS, SEES, SELLES, SEMEMES, SEMES, SERES, SEXES, SHAHS, SIS, SOLOS, SOS, STATS, STETS, SULUS, TAT, TENET, TERRET, TET, TIT, TOOT, TOROT, TOT, TUT, ULU, VAV, WAW, WOW, YAY

Patterns

Odd-length palindromes have a middle letter that mirrors itself (RADAR). Even-length ones mirror in pairs (ABBA, REDDER). Since a palindrome is fixed once you know its first half, they are rare: 101 of 172,670 words.

To find candidates yourself, use the word finder pattern field – for example r???r lists five-letter words that start and end with R, among them RADAR and ROTOR.

Questions people ask

What is the longest palindrome word in English?

In our list the longest have seven letters: DEIFIED, HALALAH, REIFIER, REPAPER, REVIVER, ROTATOR and SEMEMES. Longer ones such as TATTARRATTAT (a knock, coined by James Joyce) are not in standard word lists.

Are anagrams and palindromes related?

Every palindrome is trivially an anagram of itself, but the ideas differ: an anagram rearranges letters, a palindrome mirrors them.

Sources

  1. ENABLE word list (public domain)
  2. Wiktionary: tattarrattat

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