You want to know if a word or a whole phrase is a palindrome, but spaces, punctuation and capital letters get in the way of a simple comparison.
This checker normalizes your text the way you choose and compares it forwards and backwards using grapheme-aware reversal, so accented and non-English letters are handled correctly.
How to use Palindrome Checker
- Type or paste a word or phrase to check.
- Toggle Ignore spaces and punctuation and Ignore case to match how you want to compare.
- Read the Yes or No result, with the normalized and reversed text shown.
What you can do with it
- Check whether a phrase is a palindrome.
- Test if a name reads the same both ways.
- Verify that a sequence of characters is symmetric.
Good to know
Reversal is grapheme-aware, so accented letters, non-English scripts and emoji are reversed as whole units rather than broken. Ignore spaces and punctuation keeps only letters and numbers, and ignore case folds capitals before comparing.
Frequently asked questions
Does it ignore spaces?
Yes, when the toggle is on. It then keeps only letters and numbers, so a phrase like one with spaces can still be a palindrome.
How does it handle accents or non-English text?
Correctly. It compares grapheme clusters, so accented and non-Latin letters are not dropped the way an ASCII-only check would.
Are numbers allowed?
Yes. With ignore punctuation on, both letters and numbers are kept, so numeric sequences can be checked too.