Palindrome & anagram checker

How it works

Both checks strip everything except lowercase letters and digits before comparing - the palindrome check reverses that cleaned string and compares it to itself, and the anagram check sorts each cleaned string's characters alphabetically and compares the two sorted strings.

FAQ

Does 'A man, a plan, a canal: Panama' count as a palindrome here?

Yes - spaces, commas, colons, and capitalization are all stripped before comparing, so classic phrase-palindromes like that one register correctly, not just single words.

Do 'listen' and 'silent' count as anagrams even though the letters are in a different order?

Yes - anagram checking here sorts each word's letters alphabetically first, so any two words made of exactly the same letters will match, regardless of their original order.