what is the grammatical name

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What is the grammatical name for a word that is spelt the same way forwards and backwards?
 

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What is the grammatical name for a word that is spelt the same way forwards and backwards?
That's a palindrome.
 

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The word is also used for a phrase or sentence that is spelt the same way forwards and backwards. An example is the English version of the first words ever spoken on this earth:

" Madam, I'm Adam." (Punctuation marks are ignored)
 

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The language Malayalam
 
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