Words which are the same spelt backwards or forwards

[Anonymous]

What is it called when you can take a word and spell it foward and backward and it's still the same word? Like... bob

Thanks

 

[RonBee]

That would be a palindromic word, like noon, which is not only the same spelled forwards as backwards, but also is the same upside down (when spelled in all caps).

 

[Red5]

See also https://www.usingenglish.com/glossary/palindrome.html

 

[croaker78]

hello

That would be a palindromic word, like noon, which is not only the same spelled forwards as backwards, but also is the same upside down (when spelled in all caps).

sorry but i am not agree with you

 

[Red5]

Re: hello

sorry but i am not agree with you

Ron is correct. :roll:

PS - Say: Sorry, but I do not agree with you. :wink:

 

[Casiopea]

What is it called when you can take a word and spell it foward and backward and it's still the same word? Like... bob

Thanks

palindrome

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moderatotism

 

[Tdol]

A palindrome for overworked restaurant staff:

Stressed- no tips- spit on desserts

;-)

 

[RonBee]

Re: hello

That would be a palindromic word, like noon, which is not only the same spelled forwards as backwards, but also is the same upside down (when spelled in all caps).

sorry but i am not agree with you

A palindrome is a word (or phrase) that is spelled the same forwards as backwards. (Check the glossary.) The original poster gave bob as an example. Spell bob backwards and you get bob. The example given in the glossary is madam. A well-known palindromic phrase is Madam, I'm Adam. (Punctuation and capitalization is ignored.)



(Say: "Sorry, but I do not agree with you.")

 

[RonBee]

• palindrome (PAL-uhn-drohm), n.: a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward
  
  A few examples:
  "Madam, I'm Adam." (Adam's first words to Eve?)
  "A man, a plan, a canal--Panama!" (The history of the Panama Canal in brief)
  "Able was I ere I saw Elba." (Napoleon's lament)
  Mom, Dad
  http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/1999/05/04.html
  http://www.upi.com/print.cfm?StoryID=20031017-024617-1418r

• The word palindrome is derived from the Greek palíndromos, meaning running back again (palín = AGAIN + drom–, drameîn = RUN). A palindrome is a word or phrase which reads the same in both directions. Some simple examples are:
  
  RACECAR
  DEED
  LEVEL
  PIP
  ROTOR
  CIVIC
  POP
  MADAM
  EYE
  NUN
  RADAR
  TOOT
  
  Words like LIVE and STRAW (which read EVIL and WARTS backwards) are not themselves palindromes but the "phrases" LIVE EVIL and STRAW WARTS are. A palindrome is not necessarily a single word.
  http://www.fun-with-words.com/palin_explain.html

Lists of palindromes:
http://www.palindromelist.com/
http://www.derf.net/palindromes/old.palindrome.html
http://www.bonus.com/bonus/card/palindrome.html
http://www.fun-with-words.com/palin_example.html
http://thinks.com/words/palindromes.htm
http://puzzles.about.com/cs/palindromes/
http://www.fun-with-words.com/palin_explain.html
http://dir.yahoo.com/Social_Science/Linguistics_and_Human_Languages/Words_and_Wordplay/Palindromes/
http://home.earthlink.net/~jesmith/Palindrome.html
http://complex.gmu.edu/neural/personnel/ernie/witty/palindromes.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek/archives/96-11/0148.html
http://bach.dynet.com/palin/

 

[Tdol]

The world's longest palindrome:
http://www.norvig.com/palindrome.html

 

[RonBee]

Oh ho!

:wink:

 

[Tdol]

It's quite some sentence. ;-)

 

[Casiopea]

It's quite some sentence. ;-)

Sit on a potato pan, Otis?
Put Eliot's toilet up
Evil olive
Step on no pets
Do geese see God?

http://www.phantomstudent.com/wordgames.html

 

[Tdol]

For a waiter or waitress:

Stressed, no tips? Spit on desserts

;-)

 

[jatveiga]

This is a example of a palindrome:
"A man a plan a canal Panama"
To see other palindromes you can go to
http://www.fun-with-words.com/palin_panama.html

 

[Dan Pulju]

There once was a man named Dan. He was wise and attracted many followers. They all lived near him and became known as Dan's clan.
The government feared the Clan of Dan for their enlightened wisdom, and plotted their downfall. They passed laws and soon the Clan of Dan was exiled to live by the river. There they had plenty of water, however.
The government saw that they had water and plotted some more. They evicted the Clan of Dan from its land, forcing it to move far from the river.
But the members of the clan were wise, and they dug a trench from the river to their new land.
Then the government passed a new law that forbade the Clan of Dan from taking any water anywhere in the state. So they dug the trench all the way north to the Canadian border, and the Canadian government promised them water, and the trench became a great canal, and so they prevailed.

And the moral of this dumb story, if you didn't already see it a mile away,
is
A Dan, a clan, a canal - Canada!

 

[cheapskatex]

longest word that can be spelt forward and backwards is
redivider.

 

[Andrew Thompson]

That would be a palindromic word, like noon, which is not only the same spelled forwards as backwards, but also is the same upside down (when spelled in all caps).

So is there a word for words like NOON which are the same upside down and front to back?

And what about MOW which when rotated 180 degrees still reads MOW?

 

[Tdol]

Ambigram:
http://www.ambigram.com/q_and_a.htm

 

[benji12345678901]

Did you know that "I'm a lasagna hang a salami" backwards is the same thing?