What are the word records for vicinal (each letter has an alphabetic neighbor in the word), longest?
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What are the word records for vicinal (each letter has an alphabetic neighbor in the word), 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: [M168, 16-176,220,17-28] common word: unreconstructed (15) uncommon word: reticuloendotheliums (20) phrase: lord chamberlain of the households (30) -- Taxonomy of Wordplay, www.questrel.com