A palindrome is a word or phrase that can be correctly (and identically) read in either direction - Dr. Doolittle's "Push-me-pull-you" was perhaps a palindromedary - or perhaps a camelemac...
Phrase palindromes come in two types - "perfect" palindromes, where spaces and punctuation form part of the palindrome text (as in "Able was I ere I saw Elba"), and "imperfect" palindromes, where punctuation and spaces must be ignored or adjusted when changing from one direction of reading to the other (as in "Madam I'm Adam").
Single-word palindromes are rare, and most are only three or four letters - we intend to find them all and include them in our "list of lists".
For now, here are just a few (we are NOT going to count single-letter words such as "I", although we might include acronyms such as AEA):
bib
dad
deed
did
dud
eke
ere
ewe
exe (a river)
eye
gag
gig
hah, heh, huh
mam, mom, mum
naan
nan
noon
nun
oxo
pap
pip
poop
pop
pup
radar
refer
rotor
sus
tat
tit
tot
toot
tut
wow
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