What Is The Longest Word With Horizontal Symmetry

A word with horizontal symmetry is one whose letters are a mirror image of themselves. If you drew a horizontal line across the word and folded it over, it would overlap on itself. For example, EXCEEDED and ICEBOX have horizontal symmetry, but VERTICAL and SIMPLE do not.

What is the longest word with horizontal symmetry?

CHECKBOOK.

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4 Comments on "What Is The Longest Word With Horizontal Symmetry"


winnie the pooh says
May 11, 2015 @ 18:36

interesting, I want a sentence made out of horizontal symmetry words though


Jason says
April 12, 2019 @ 15:04

Sentence (this was really hard to even come up with this much)(Some letters to need to be capitalized to be symmetric): It Killed the chick.


Jason says
April 12, 2019 @ 15:10

Though, technically thats a sentence fragment.


Paul E says
October 27, 2020 @ 15:04

The proper noun “OKEECHOBEE” (Florida lake) is one letter longer than “CHECKBOOK”.


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