12-Letter Palindromes

Twelve-letter palindromes are words exactly 12 letters long that read the same backwards as forwards. At this length they get rare and often obscure, so each one comes with a short meaning.

12-letter palindrome words

Word / PhraseCleanedLengthMeaning
tattarrattat tattarrattat 12 Coined by James Joyce in Ulysses (1922) for a knock at the door; longest palindromic entry in the Oxford English Dictionary.
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