What are the word records for roller-coaster (word with letters that alternate between going forward and...
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What are the word records for roller-coaster (word with letters that alternate between going forward and backward in alphabet), longest? (Spelling / Alphabetical Order / Entire Word) [ 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: [22-175,239] common words: decriminalization, parameterizations (17-t) uncommon word: decontextualizations (20) hyphenated phrase: through-and-through coal (21) -- Taxonomy of Wordplay, www.questrel.com