What are the word records for for each letter?
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What are the word records for for each letter? (Etymology / Words with unusual origins / metanalysis or affix-clipping or folk etymology (words formed by moving a letter to or from a frequent companion word)) [ 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 "Word Formed by Borrowing or Lending Letters to Frequent Companions, Beginning with Each Letter" below
Word Formed by Borrowing or Lending Letters to Frequent Companions, Beginning with Each Letter
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a common word: accomplice (a complice = accomplice)
common word: adder (a naddre = an addre)
common word: apple (a napple = an apple)
common word: apron (a napron = an apron)
common word: auger (a nauger = an auger)
common word: aught (a naught = an aught)
uncommon word: auncel (lancelle = l'auncelle)
uncommon word: aventail (la ventaille = l'aventaille)
hyphenated word: aitch-bone (a nachebon = an achebon)
b common word: broil (amb-ustulare = am-bustulare)
c uncommon word: cunette (lacunetta = la cunetta)
d uncommon word: dab (adept = a dab)
e uncommon word: emony (anemone = an emony)
uncommon word: eyas (a neyas = an eyas)
f ?
g uncommon word: guglia (l'aguglia = la guglia)
h uncommon word: haberdine (labordean = l'abordean)
i common word: ingot (lingot = l'ingot)
j ?
k ?
l common word: lone (alone = a lone)
uncommon word: lamantin (la manati = lamanti)
uncommon word: lierre (l'ierre = lierre)
m ?
n common word: newt (an ewt = a newt)
common word: nickname (an ekename = a nekename)
common word: nonce (then anes = the nanes)
common word: notch (an otch = a notch)
common word: nother (an other = a nother)
uncommon word: nain (mine ain = my nain)
uncommon word: nidget (an idiot = a nidiot)
uncommon word: nope (an owpe = a nowpe)
o common word: orange (a naranj = an aranj)
common word: ouch (a nouche = an ouche)
p uncommon word: precle (l'aprecle = la precle)
q ?
r uncommon word: rouse (drink carouse = drink a rouse)
s slope (aslope = a slope)
t common word: tone (thet on = the tone)
uncommon word: tother (thet other = the tother)
u common word: umpire (a noumpere = an oumpere)
v ?
w uncommon word: wis (iwis = i wis)
x ?
y ?
z uncommon word: zamia (azaniae = a zaniae)
-- Taxonomy of Wordplay, www.questrel.com