What are the word records for digital word (letters replaced by their alphabetical positions as decimal...
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What are the word records for digital word (letters replaced by their alphabetical positions as decimal numbers)? (Spelling / Alphabetical Order / Entire Word) a. numberdrome (digital word palindrome), longest b. digital charade pair (digital words the same ignoring separations between numbers), longest well-mixed c. digital reversal pair, longest d. numbergram (digital transposal set), largest [22-177] e. numbergram (digital transposal set), largest all words of different length [22-51] [ 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: [22-51,177,23-175]
e.g., WORD = (23, 15, 18, 4)
a. numberdrome (digital word palindrome), longest
e.g., HAIR = (8, 1, 9, 18)
common word: insulins (8)
hyphenated word: abba-dabba (9)
b. digital charade pair (digital words the same ignoring separations between numbers), longest well-mixed
e.g., ABOVE = (1, 2, 15, 22, 5), LOVE = (12, 15, 22, 5)
common words: craving & crabbing (8)
c. digital reversal pair, longest
e.g., ABULIA = (1, 2, 21, 12, 9, 1), SULU = (19, 21, 12, 21)
common words: debug & gabbed (6-t)
common words: hovel & bobber (6-t)
uncommon words: jararaca & maharaja (8)
d. numbergram (digital transposal set), largest [22-177]
common words: nows & owns & snow & sown & axiom & clods & colds & exams & maxes & melds & mused & odium & scold & wanes & weans & caused & clades & decals & licked & mailed & medial & sauced & scaled & dieback (24)
uncommon words: cours & holms & howks & kymri & marys & merls & merus & milor & mirky & mures & muser & roumi & rumes & scour & serum & sowar & symar & syrma & yarms & abmhos & abohms & acrasy & almehs & ambers & aumrie & brames & breams & brecks & carbos & carles & carobs & caroli & caryas & causer & cesura & cholas & clares & clears & coarbs & cobras & corail & corial & elmira & embars & erucas & hambos & hamels & himalo & holmia & huacos & kawrie & kowhai & lacers & licker & lorica & maholi & mailer & myaria & olchas & recals & remail & rickle & sarcel & sarcle & saucer & scaler & schola & sclera & shacky & uremia & acholia & baciroa & hamelia (73)
hyphenated words: no-show & owners & resown & rowens & synroc & wenros & worsen & boronic & bromine & carneys & cedrols & censure & chounse & coaxers & cobiron & coenuri & cohunes & colders & coursed & crenels & demures & die-work & dyermas & embrion & erineum & ermelin & erodium & hounces & melders & moldier & nochels & nourice & onychas & redowas & resumed & scenary & scolder & scoured & sombred & sourced & unireme & weaners & woaders & amberoid & anerobic & aneuches & awardees & boehmian & bohemian & brocades & carbeens & carbenes & cedrelas & cenobiar & chelonia & cheneaus & cinereal & coalshed & cordiale & daycares & declares & deer-lick & embreads & halidome & hieleman & necrobia & raceline & reliance & remailed & remedial & rescaled & saucered & shawanee & bridecake & abecedaria (75)
phrases: Marys & Mures & Remus & Sumer & cours & holms & howks & kymri & marys & merls & merus & milor & mirky & mures & muser & roumi & rumes & scour & serum & sowar & symar & syrma & yarms & Elmira & Mailer & Oshawa & abmhos & abohms & acrasy & almehs & ambers & aumrie & brames & breams & brecks & carbos & carles & carobs & caroli & caryas & causer & cesura & cholas & clares & clears & coarbs & cobras & corail & corial & elmira & embars & erucas & hambos & hamels & himalo & holmia & huacos & kawrie & kowhai & lacers & licker & lorica & maholi & mailer & myaria & olchas & recals & remail & rickle & sarcel & sarcle & saucer & scaler & schola & sclera & shacky & uremia & acholia & baciroa & hamelia (80)
phrases: no show & no-show & owners & resown & rowens & synroc & wenros & worsen & air wood & boronic & bromine & carneys & cedrols & censure & chounse & coaxers & cobiron & coenuri & cohunes & colders & con brio & coursed & crenels & demures & die-work & dyermas & embrion & erineum & ermelin & erodium & hounces & melders & moldier & nochels & nourice & onychas & red elms & redowas & resumed & scenary & scolder & scoured & sombred & sourced & unireme & weaners & woaders & wood ash & Bohemian & amberoid & anerobic & aneuches & awardees & bar codes & beni amer & boehmian & bohemian & brocades & carbeens & carbenes & cedrelas & cenobiar & chelonia & cheneaus & cinereal & coalshed & cordiale & day cares & daycares & declares & deer lick & deer-lick & due cares & embreads & halidome & hieleman & in a creel & necrobia & raceline & red scale & reliance & remailed & remedial & rescaled & saucered & shawanee & bridecake & abecedaria (88)
e. numbergram (digital transposal set), largest all words of different length [22-51]
common words: dropouts & peasantry & pasteboard & breakfasted (4-t)
common words: stormy & mastery & cathouse & aerobatic (4-t)
common words: moult & amulet & tamable & backbeat (4-t)
common words: snouts & tinkles & beatniks & databases (4-t)
common words: mount & toucan & tackled & backdate (4-t)
common words: outrow & coulter & latchkey & traceable (4-t)
common words: snout & unseat & beatnik & database (4-t)
common words: immunity & militancy & vaccinates & dialectical (4-t)
common words: wanton & untamed & bandmate & backdated (4-t)
... and 23 others
uncommon words: plymouths & breastplow & factorially & bicarpellate & acetabulifera (5-t)
uncommon words: mossgrown & mongrelism & meadowgrass & greenbackism & cardiomegalia (5-t)
uncommon words: splintwoods & functionless & nickelization & allodification & pseudoadiabatic (5-t)
uncommon words: tryworks & carryouts & carrytales & hackbuteers & halobacteria (5-t)
uncommon words: pinworks & unprosaic & lampshades & amphisbaena & ascalaphidae (5-t)
uncommon words: unstony & unousted & unjellied & dealbation & abalienated (5-t)
... and 19 others
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