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Anadrome vs Palindrome - What's the difference?

anadrome | palindrome |

As nouns the difference between anadrome and palindrome

is that anadrome is a word which forms a different word when spelled backwards while palindrome is a word, phrase, number or any other sequence of units which has the property of reading the same forwards as it does backwards, character for character, sometimes disregarding punctuation, capitalization and diacritics.

anadrome

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A word which forms a different word when spelled backwards.
  • ''"desserts" and "stressed" are believed to be the longest common English anadromes
  • An anadromous fish.
  • See also

    * palindrome * anagram * semordnilap ----

    palindrome

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A word, phrase, number or any other sequence of units which has the property of reading the same forwards as it does backwards, character for character, sometimes disregarding punctuation, capitalization and diacritics.
  • Level, madam and racecar are examples of single word palindromes .
  • A poetic form in which the sequence of words reads the same in either direction.
  • Rise to vote sir'' is an example of a sentence that is a palindrome .
  • (genetics) A stretch of DNA in which the sequence of nucleotides on one strand are in the reverse order to that of the complementary strand
  • Derived terms

    * (genetics) massive palindrome

    See also

    * palindromicable * * * aibohphobia * anagram * semordnilap ----