What Do the Words Racecar, Civic and Wow Have in Common?

The words "racecar," "civic," and "wow" are examples of palindromes. A palindrome is a word, phrase, number, or other sequence of characters that reads the same forward and backward (ignoring spaces, punctuation, and capitalization). In each of these words, when you reverse the order of the letters, you get the same word. Here's how it looks:

• "racecar" spelled backward is "racecar"
• "civic" spelled backward is "civic"
• "wow" spelled backward is "wow"

Palindromes are often found interesting because of this symmetrical property, making them enjoyable linguistic curiosities.

Here are some more examples of palindromic words:

1. Madam
2. Level
3. Deified
4. Rotator
5. Repaper
6. Reviver
7. Malayalam
8. Refer
9. Rotator
10. Redder
11. Dewed
12. Detartrated
13. Racecar
14. Tenet
15. Radar
16. Eve

And here are some palindromic phrases:

1. "Madam, in Eden, I'm Adam"
2. "A man, a plan, a canal: Panama"
3. "Was it a car or a cat I saw?"
4. "Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live"
5. "A Toyota's a Toyota"

Source: Some or all of the content was generated using an AI language model