Check string for palindrome

Question

A palindrome is a word, phrase, number or other sequence of units that can be read the same way in either direction.

To check whether a word is a palindrome I get th

Answer 1

private static boolean isPalindrome(String word) {

        int z = word.length();
        boolean isPalindrome = false;

        for (int i = 0; i <= word.length() / 2; i++) {
            if (word.charAt(i) == word.charAt(--z)) {
                isPalindrome = true;
            }
        }

        return isPalindrome;
    }