What are the word records for letter product (multiply together positions of letters in alphabet)?

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What are the word records for letter product (multiply together positions of letters in alphabet)?
(Spelling / Alphabetical Order / Entire Word)

  a.  subtransposition (words with same letter product), longest well-mixed [M183, 13-25,15-18]
  b.  closest to one million
  c.  closest to two million
  d.  closest to three million
  e.  closest to four million
  f.  closest to five million
  g.  word with unique letter product, shortest

[ 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. ]

a.  subtransposition (words with same letter product), longest well-mixed [M183, 13-25,15-18]
        common words: psychotherapists & phosphodiesterase (17-t)
        common words: multiconductor & manufacturability (17-t)
        common words: personalization & microencapsulated (17-t)
        common words: procrastination & anachronistically (17-t)
        common words: thermoregulation & neuropharmacology (17-t)
        common words: crystallographer & paternalistically (17-t)
        common words: respectfully & postbaccalaureate (17-t)
        uncommon words: reithrodontomyses & pseudosaccharomycetaceae (24)
        phrases: creatine phosphokinases & as different as chalk and cheese (27-t)
        phrases: methyldihydromorphinones & hormone replacement therapies (27-t)
        phrases: topological transformations & dynamic spatial reconstructor (27-t)
b.  closest to one million
        common word: curing (1000188)
        uncommon words: typey, teaette (1000000-t)
c.  closest to two million
        common words: ingrain, cuffing, curbing, raining (2000376-t)
        uncommon word: teethy (2000000)
d.  closest to three million
        common word: peyote (3000000)
e.  closest to four million
        common words: brining, braining, girding, luring, ruling, uncurl (4000752-t)
f.  closest to five million
        common words: juicing, coining (5000940-t)
g.  word with unique letter product, shortest
        common words: a (1-t)
        common words: c (1-t)
        common words: k (1-t)
        common words: q (1-t)
        common words: r (1-t)
        common words: u (1-t)
        common words: v (1-t)
        common words: w (1-t)
        common words: y (1-t)
        ... and 3 others
        uncommon words: kg (2-t)
        uncommon words: qi (2-t)
        uncommon words: wu (2-t)
        phrases: HQ (2-t)
        phrases: CQ (2-t)

-- Taxonomy of Wordplay, www.questrel.com