What are the word records for balance points?
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What are the word records for balance points? (Spelling / Alphabetical Order / Entire Word) a. word balances about some position, longest b. word balances about central position, longest c. ratio balance point to length, leftmost d. ratio balance point to length, rightmost [ 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. ]
Sources: [M186,2-37,31-11]
e.g., STEAD balances at T: 1 * S(19) = 1 * E(5) + 2 * A(1) + 3 * D(4))
a. word balances about some position, longest
common words: consubstantiation, unintelligibility, thoughtlessnesses (17-t)
uncommon word: polytetrafluoroethylenes (24)
phrase: gilles de la tourette's syndrome (27)
b. word balances about central position, longest
common words: consubstantiation, unintelligibility, thoughtlessnesses (17-t)
uncommon word: microspectrophotometric (23)
phrase: rotational quantum numbers (24)
c. ratio balance point to length, leftmost
common word: wrongheaded (0.36)
d. ratio balance point to length, rightmost
common word: aces (0.87)
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