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What are the word records for homophones with no removable prefix or suffix, longest?

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What are the word records for homophones with no removable prefix or suffix, longest?
(Pronunciation / homophones (words spelled differently but pronounced the same))

[ 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. ]

uncommon words: corespondent = correspondent (25)

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