What are the word records for for each letter?

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What are the word records for for each letter?
(Etymology / Acronyms, anagrams, portmanteaus [17-210,23-19,37] / portmanteau word (word formed by mixing two other words))

[ Editor: question framed by the editor from the headings of the Taxonomy of Wordplay. ]

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[ Editor: from the Taxonomy of Wordplay, www.questrel.com, retrieved 28 Oct 2026. Classes (common, uncommon, hyphenated words, phrases), scores, ties (-t) and the source codes in brackets are explained in language/english/word.records.introduction. ]

see list "Portmanteau Beginning with Each Letter" below

Portmanteau Beginning with Each Letter
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a       anecdotage (anecdote, dotage)
b       brunch (breakfast, lunch)
c       chortle (chuckle, snort)
d       dramedy (drama, comedy)
e       edutainment (education, entertainment)
f       flunk (flinch, funk)
g       gerrymander (Gerry, salamander)
h       hokum (hocus-pocus, bunkum)
i       immittance (impedance, admittance)
j       jolt (joll, jot)
k       knurl (knur, gnarl)
l       lidar (light, radar)
m       motel (motor, hotel)
n       nickelodeon (nickel, melodeon)
o       Oxbridge (Oxford, Cambridge)
p       prissy (prim, sissy)
q       quiddle (quiddity, fiddle)
r       ruckus (ruction, rumpus)
s       smog (smoke, fog)
t       transceiver (transmitter, receiver)
u       umpteen (umpty, -teen)
v       volumeter (volume, -meter)
w       wistful (wistly, wishful)
x       xeriscape (xeric, landscape)
y       Yinglish (Yiddish, English)
z       zillionaire (zillion, millionaire)

-- Taxonomy of Wordplay, www.questrel.com