What is a Palindrome? | Vocabulary Lesson

A palindrome is a word, phrase, number, or sequence of characters that reads the same forward and backward, ignoring spaces, punctuation, and capitalization. For example, “racecar” and “madam” are simple palindromic words, while phrases like “A man, a plan, a canal, Panama” and “Able was I, ere I saw Elba” are more complex examples. Palindromes have fascinated linguists, mathematicians, and artists for centuries due to their symmetry and unique structure. They also appear in names, like “Hannah”