A palindrome is a word or sentence that reads the same as it does backward. The words ‘A’ and ‘I’ are perhaps the simplest palindromes. The word ‘Refer’ and name ‘Malayalam’ are more interesting and illustrative palindromes.

Palindromes are a type of palingram called letter palingrams. A palingram is a sentence in which the letters, syllables, or words read the same backward as they do forward. The sentence, “I was, was I?” is a palingram, because the words can be placed in reverse order and still read the same. The sentence, “I did, did I?” is not only a word palingram but a letter plaingram (or palindrome) as well.

A number of interesting palindromes are given below to improve your knowledge. 

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