Palindrome

A palindrome is a word, number, phrase, or other sequence of symbols that reads the same backwards as forwards, such as madam or racecar, the date "22/02/2022", or the sentence "A man, a plan, a canal – Panama". The 19-letter Finnish word saippuakivikauppias is the longest single-word palindrome in everyday use, while the 12-letter term tattarrattat is the longest in English.

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