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What is the shortest word that is spelled the same forward and backward?

More than one letter, please.

Posted - February 15, 2017
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  • 3907

    Hello Chief:

    A, as in "a" thing..

    excon

      February 15, 2017 7:17 AM MST
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  • 44604
    Dang...I should have written it as a more than one letter word.
      February 15, 2017 7:22 AM MST
    1

  • 3907
    Hello again, Chief:

    You can't change the rules in the middle of the game..  I WIN!

    excon
      February 15, 2017 7:29 AM MST
    0

  • 44604
    Alright...only because you are a Jew and a shipmate.
      February 15, 2017 7:38 AM MST
    0

  • Eye?
      February 15, 2017 7:21 AM MST
    7

  • 44604
    Nay.
      February 15, 2017 7:24 AM MST
    1

  • I.
      February 15, 2017 8:06 AM MST
    0

  • 34253
    There are two. A and I.
    Oops I didn't see the more than one letter requirement.

    OO.     This post was edited by my2cents at February 15, 2017 7:31 AM MST
      February 15, 2017 7:25 AM MST
    1

  • "BB"



      February 15, 2017 7:36 AM MST
    6

  • 44604
    Awesome
      February 15, 2017 7:39 AM MST
    1

  • Aw shucks. 'Tweren't nothin'.
      February 15, 2017 7:44 AM MST
    1

  • 5451
    Yay!

    All the ones I can think of:

    bib
    bob
    dad
    did
    dud
    gag
    gig
    mam
    mom
    mum
    non
    pop
    pup
    tat
    tit
    tot
    wow
      February 15, 2017 4:34 PM MST
    2

  • 3523
    Hey, you stole my answer.  What about bub as in, "What's all the hubbub, Bub?"
      February 15, 2017 7:25 PM MST
    0

  • 3523
    Aha!
      February 15, 2017 7:26 PM MST
    0

  • Can something onomatopoeiac also be a palindrome? I was thinking of 'Zz' because a two-lettered one must be rarer than a single or three-lettered one.
      February 15, 2017 10:58 PM MST
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