What is the word that describes words spelled the same backwards or forward such as madam?
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Palindromes.  The same fowards as is backwards.  Like "Madam, I am Adam."
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Female has an additional 'Fe' as a prefix.....
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it is called a palindrome.\n\nBob\nMom\nDad\nRacecar\nKayak\nPop\nPep\nPeep\n\nthe list goes on!
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Bona corrupta.\n\n(Word order is reversed from the English)
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read her name, backwards
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dog spelled backwards.
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There are no english words that fit this pattern.  Please check your source.
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a palindrome.\nThe best fullsentence palindrome I know is this:\n\nA man, a plan, a canal - Panama
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Nisab is the word Basin in reverse.\n\nThey call that a "palindrome".\n\nOther palindromes:\n\n"bob"\n"hannah"\n"sit on a potato pan otis"\n"a man, a plan, a canal: panama"
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half because it doesn't spell a word backwards:\n\nstop, warts, mom, pets, *'flah'
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The word is "palindrome" and refers to both words and numbers.
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I remember when I got in trouble for answering a question CORRECTLY.  I think the teacher felt threatened because I had a better understanding of English (the subject, not the language) than she did.  My parents are both former English teachers, what can I say?  She was talking about something and said "I can't remember what it's called when you can spell a word the same forward and backward."  I answered that is was a "palindrome."  She said, "Oh, I remember now.  It's a homophone!"  I answered, very respectfully, that a homophone is something that sounds the same.  (homo=same, phone=sound)  She snarled at me and told me to go look it up.  I was right, and ever since that day, she tried to make everything harder on me, or would make sarcastic comments like "What do YOU think, smarty-pants?"  Still made an "A", and thank God I only had her one year.
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heroine---\nhe\nher\nhero\nheroine
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They are palindromes. Examples would be: Madam and kayak. Sentances can also be palindromic. A good one is about Napoleon who was imprisoned on the island of Elba: 'Able was I, ere I saw elba '. There's a good website at:\nwww.palindromelist.com
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A. FORWARD SHIFT  \n\nB. REMAIN THE SAME\n\nC. REMAIN THE SAME\n\nD. FORWARD SHIFT\n\nE. REVERSE SHIFT\n\nF. FORWARD SHIFT\n\nG. REVERSE SHIFT
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Queue\n\n(Not sure if this is the word you were thinking of, but if you take away all but the first letter, the pronunciation is the same, so it's my answer.)  :-)
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Hi Richa\nA palindrome is a word or a phrase that reads the same  in the reverse too. \n\nWord examples are\nNOON, MADAM, MALAYALAM, etc.\n\nPhrase examples are\nTEN ANIMALS I SLAM IN A NET\n\nTUNA ROLL OR A NUT?\n\nSTAR RATS\n\nTOO HOTTO HOOT\n\nSPACE CAPS\n\nPULL UP IF I PULL UP\n\nWAS IT A CAR OR A CAT I SAW?\n\nNEVER EVER EVEN\n\nA MAN, A PLAN, A CANAL, PANAMA!\n\nMADAM, I'M ADAM\n\nREWARD DRAWER\n\nOTTO SEES OTTO\n\nSMART RAMS!