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On Mon, 25 Oct 2021 17:43:21 +0000, leflynn wrote:

On Monday, October 18, 2021 at 1:06:19 PM UTC-4, leflynn wrote:

Simple challenge to create a 26 word list where the starting and ending
letters are the same, with one word for each letter of the alphabet.
Your score is the total number of letters. If you skip a letter, your
score for that letter is 7. Can you get under 100 without consulting a
dictionary? Let's use the scrabble players' word list.
L. Flynn

Here are three lists. The first is made entirely of non-trivial
Palindromes (Score of 99). The second improves on it by including non-palindrome words of two or more letters (Score of 90). And the third allows words of a single letter (Score of 84). One-letter words are not
in the Scrabble dictionary. Note Collins Scrabble Words has rCLoorCY in it. AA 2 A
BIB 5
CIVIC 10 CHIC
DAD 13
EYE 16
------- 23 FIEF
GIG 26
HAH 29
------- 36 INTI I
------- 43
KOOK 47
LEVEL 52 LULL
MM 54
NUN 57
OHO 60 O
POP 63
QAJAQ 68
RADAR 73 ROAR
SIS 76
TAT 79
ULU 82
VAV 85
WOW 88
XEROX 93
YAY 96
ZZZ 99 90 84

Ob. Puzzle. Similar list to the first but the goal is to find the
longest palindrome words for each letter.

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Do we already have a list of Long or Longish Palindromic words (in
English)?


Rotator

Repaper

Deleveled

Racecar

Redivider

Detartrated === (Past tense of detartrate)
(to remove tartar, extremely rare
and mostly used for its palindromic property).

"Detartrated" is considered the longest palindromic English word by some sources, though itrCOs very uncommon in regular use.

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Was it a car or a cat I saw?


Madam, in Eden, IrCOm Adam


Step on no pets


No lemon, no melon


Never odd or even


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