palindrome
Reads both ways
A palindrome is a word, phrase, or sequence that reads the same backward as forward.
Classic examples include *madam*, *racecar*, and *A man, a plan, a canal: Panama*.
Spaces and punctuation are typically ignored when determining whether something qualifies.
The concept extends to numbers: 12321 is a numeric palindrome.
High-speed competition vehicle
- madamFormal address for women
- levelHorizontal or uniform position
- rotorSpinning mechanical assembly
- civicPertaining to community affairs
deified · radar · refer · kayak · tenet · stats · reviver · noon
Inverted parallel construction
- parallelismMatching structural elements
- antithesisDirect opposite; contrasting juxtaposition
- anaphoraRepeated opening words
- epistropheRepeating concluding words
repetition · reversal · wordplay · literary · stylistic · syntactic · mirroring
Word reversible into another
- anagramReshuffled letter word
- ambigramMulti-orientation readable design
- reversalComplete change of direction
- wordplayVerbal wit techniques
acrostic · pangram · homophone · morpheme · lexicon · etymology · spoonerism · paronomasia
Reflective viewing surface
- reflectionReturned light or thought
- reversalComplete change of direction
- bilateralInvolving two parties
- axisRotation reference line
balance · inversion · correspondence · equivalence · reciprocal · self-similar · invariance · congruence
racecar
High-speed competition vehicle
civic · deified · radar · refer · kayak · tenet · stats · reviver · noon · bob
chiasmus
Inverted parallel construction
- parallelismMatching structural elements
- antithesisDirect opposite; contrasting juxtaposition
- anaphoraRepeated opening words
epistrophe · repetition · reversal · wordplay · literary · stylistic · syntactic · mirroring
semordnilap
Word reversible into another
- anagramReshuffled letter word
- ambigramMulti-orientation readable design
- reversalComplete change of direction
wordplay · acrostic · pangram · homophone · morpheme · lexicon · etymology · spoonerism · paronomasia · neologism
mirror
Reflective viewing surface
- reflectionReturned light or thought
- reversalComplete change of direction
- bilateralInvolving two parties
axis · balance · inversion · correspondence · equivalence · reciprocal · self-similar · invariance · congruence · regularity
digit
Single numeric character
reversal · mathematical · computation · base · notation · integer · decimal · prime · numeric · calculator
wordgame
Linguistic recreational activity
- brainteaserPuzzle demanding clever thought
- riddlePuzzling question to solve
- challengeTest of ability
cryptic · enigma · conundrum · quiz · anagram · crossword · acrostic · charade · rebus · tongue-twister
- linguistic termsacronym, anagram, antonym, synonym, homonym
- -drome wordsaerodrome, hippodrome, velodrome, syndrome, cosmodrome
- DNA elementsgene, promoter, enhancer, silencer, exon
- word gamescrossword, Scrabble, crossword puzzle, anagram, word game
- reversalsreverse, undo, revert, overturn, flip
- sequencessequence, arithmetic, series, geometric, progressions
palindromeanagram
Reshuffled letter word
pangram · isogram · acrostic · spoonerism · malapropism