emirp

Not valid in Scrabble

It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
11
Letters
5

Definition of emirp

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A prime number that becomes a different prime when its decimal digits (or digits in some specified other base) are reversed.
    “The sequence of emirps begins: 13, 17, 31, 37, 71, 73, 79, 97, 107, ...”
    “The first few emirps in base 12 (using the convention T for ten and E for eleven) are: 15, 51, 57, 5E, 75, E5, 107, ...”
    “Therefore we do not yet know whether the general emirps go on forever or whether they too eventually end with a largest emirp of all.”

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Etymology

prime spelled backwards.

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