palindromic
adjective, noun
palindromic is an adjective meaning “Of, relating to, or being a palindrome” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-A-L-I-N-D-R-O-M-I-C, and it appears about once in every 17 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does palindromic mean?
adjective
- 1
Of, relating to, or being a palindrome.
"Madam I'm Adam" is a palindromic phrase.
- 2
Beginning and ending in a similar way.
palindromic rheumatism
noun
- 1
A palindromic polynomial.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce palindromic?
- General-American
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-palindromic.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of palindromic
- palindromics plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is palindromic?
Palindromic appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 125,655th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does palindromic come from?
From palindrome + -ic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).