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What are the word records for synonymous transposal, longest?

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What are the word records for synonymous transposal, longest?
(Meaning / Synonyms and Antonyms / synonymic and antonymic reversals and transposals [8-111])

[ 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. ]

common word: angered = enraged (7)
uncommon word: adulation = laudation (9)
uncommon word: amatorian = inamorata (9)
uncommon word: listerize = sterilize (9)

-- Taxonomy of Wordplay, www.questrel.com