What are the word records for consecutive letters in alphabet?

[ 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.  containing most [L168,4-10,144,5-22,11-36,108,12-169,15-77,151,154,212,16-156]
        common words: disenfranchising, goldfinches, lightfaced (7-t)
        uncommon words: perquisition, preconquest, prequalifications, propinquities, sesquiterpenoid, appropinquates, appropinquations, appropinquities, benzoxyacetanilide, ... and 23 others (8-t)
        hyphenated word: quasi-complimentary (10)
        phrases: knight of st john of jerusalem, knights of st john of jerusalem, quos deus vult perdere prius dementat (11-t)
b.  containing most, for each letter
        see list "Word Containing Most Consecutive Letters in the Alphabet after Each Letter" below
c.  consecutive alphabetic letters in left-to-right order
        i.  containing most
                common words: reconstructive, redistributive, absconded (5-t)
        ii.  containing most, for each letter [L168,4-207,7-62,88,188]
                see list "Word Containing Most Consecutive Letters in Order after Each Letter" below
d.  consecutive alphabetic letters in order consecutively, containing most [L168]
        common words: overstuffed, understudy (4-t)
e.  consecutive runs of consecutive alphabetic letters, containing most
        common words: damndest, sophist, catastrophist (3-t)
        uncommon word: echinoders (4)
f.  ratio of consecutive alphabetic letters to length, highest
        common words: backed, braced, cabled, quarts, squirt (0.83-t)
        uncommon word: klompen (0.85)
g.  consecutive alphabetic letters in reverse order consecutively, containing most
        common words: environmental, transponder, federation, exponential, nutshell, weaponry, proponent, responder, deutsche, respondent, federally, preponderance, correspondingly, jihad, unresponsive, environmentalism, confederation, exponentiation, gutsy, ... and 81 others (3-t)
        hyphenated words: bouts-rimes, weapon-maker (4-t)
h.  consecutive run up and down, longest
        common word: overstuffed (7)
        phrase: overstuffed chair (8)

Word Containing Most Consecutive Letters in the Alphabet after Each Letter
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a        common words: feedback, fabricated, backfield, obfuscated, biofeedback, bifurcated, barefaced, backfilled, backfired, boldface, prefabricated (6-t)
        uncommon word: blackfigured (7)
        hyphenated word: right-about-faced (9)
b        common words: feedback, fabricated, backfield, obfuscated, biofeedback, objectified, bifurcated, barefaced, backfilled, backfired, boldface, prefabricated (5-t)
        uncommon words: fredericksburg, blackfigured (6-t)
        hyphenated word: right-about-faced (8)
c        common words: disenfranchising, goldfinches, lightfaced (7-t)
        phrase: floodlight projector (8)
d        common words: foreshadowing, dogfighter, grandfathering, eightfold, featherbedding, flighted, foresighted, dehumidifying, delightful, disenfranchising, dogfishes, farsighted, farsightedness, figurehead, freighted, frightened, goldfinches, goldfishes, lightfaced, ... and 6 others (6-t)
        phrase: floodlight projector (7)
e        common words: refreshing, spaceflight, foreshadowing, firefight, nightlife, preflight, freewheeling, angelfish, safelight, dogfighter, fletching, reshuffling, firelight, gunfighter, motherfucking, featherweight, filmographies, fishmonger, grandfathering, ... and 81 others (5-t)
        uncommon word: jetfighter (6)
        phrases: knight of st john of jerusalem, knights of st john of jerusalem (11-t)
f        common words: fishing, finishing, flashing, refreshing, insightful, dogfight, spaceflight, infighting, shoplifting, foreshadowing, firefight, nightlife, furnishing, downshifting, fortnightly, preflight, filmography, gunfight, freewheeling, ... and 81 others (4-t)
        uncommon word: jetfighter (5)
        hyphenated word: half-joking (7)
        phrases: knight of st john of jerusalem, knights of st john of jerusalem (10-t)
g        common words: straightjacket, highjack, hijacking (5-t)
        uncommon words: jacklight, kjeldahlizing (6-t)
        phrases: knight of st john of jerusalem, knights of st john of jerusalem (9-t)
h        common words: straightjacket, hijinks, highjack, hijack (4-t)
        uncommon words: jacklight, jakhalsbessie, kjeldahlization, kjeldahlize, ... and 5 others (5-t)
        phrases: checkbook journalism, jamaica honeysuckle, knight of st john of jerusalem, knights of st john of jerusalem, ... and 3 others (8-t)
i        common words: kilojoules, jailbreak, jaywalking, jellylike, jerkily, jokingly, killjoy (4-t)
        uncommon word: jasminelike (6)
        phrase: Kilimanjaro (7)
        phrase: pack journalism (8)
j        common word: lumberjack (4)
        uncommon word: jasminelike (5)
        phrase: Kilimanjaro (6)
        phrases: japanese hemlock, pack journalism (7-t)
k        common words: unsportsmanlike, sportsmanlike, kleptomaniac, lymphokines (6-t)
l        common words: implementation, compilation, manipulation, computational, compliance, compliant, predominantly, deployment, polynomial, developmental, promotional, incompatibility, amplification, multiprocessing, simplification, recompiling, paranormal, counterexample, comprehensible, ... and 81 others (5-t)
        uncommon words: plasmoquin, plasmoquine, sphenosquamosal (6-t)
        hyphenated word: quasi-complimentary (10)
        phrase: quos deus vult perdere prius dementat (11)
m        common words: implementation, compilation, manipulation, optimization, computational, compliance, experimentation, compliant, uncompressed, predominantly, deployment, polynomial, developmental, misconception, promotional, optimizing, decompression, incompatibility, amplification, ... and 81 others (4-t)
        uncommon word: prosequendum (7)
        hyphenated words: quasi-complimentary, quasi-important (9-t)
        phrase: quos deus vult perdere prius dementat (10)
n        common word: quadraphonic (5)
        uncommon words: perquisition, preconquest, prequalifications, propinquities, sesquiterpenoid, appropinquates, appropinquations, appropinquities, equiparations, ... and 19 others (8-t)
        phrases: equivalent evaporations, previous question, private notice question, quality point averages, ... and 8 others (9-t)
o        common word: quasiperiodic (5)
        uncommon words: perquisition, quasiperiodicity, preconquest, perquisitor, prequalifications, propinquities, sesquiterpenoid, appropinquates, appropinquations, ... and 42 others (7-t)
        hyphenated words: quasi-productive, quasi-provocative (8-t)
p        common words: pratiques, perquisite, quasiparticle, picturesque, prerequisite, quadruplets (6-t)
        uncommon words: preacquisitive, superequivalent, superinquisitive (7-t)
        hyphenated phrase: quarter-wave plates (8)
q        common word: ventriloquism (6)
        hyphenated word: quasi-interviewed (7)
r        common word: liverwurst (6)
s        common word: liverwurst (5)
t        common words: overwrought, liverwurst (4-t)
u        common words: purview, waveguide, unwavering, overwrought, unswerving, liverwurst, unreviewed, housewives (3-t)
v        common words: whatsoever, overview, overwrite, shortwave, overwhelmingly, waveform, waiver, overwritten, disavow, vaporware, worldview, viewfinder, giveaway, overblown, heavyweight, viewable, whosoever, purview, midwives, ... and 81 others (2-t)
        hyphenated words: ex-servicewoman, grave-wax (3-t)
        phrases: downy false foxglove, extraordinary wave, yellow foxglove (4-t)
w        common words: taxiway, expressway, waxy (3-t)
        phrase: waxy maize (5)
x        common words: explicitly, homosexuality, sexuality, extensively, proximity, epoxy, externally, oxymoron, expectancy, expressly, toxicity, exponentially, bisexuality, experimentally, heterosexuality, exemplary, orthodoxy, exploratory, carboxylase, ... and 81 others (2-t)
        uncommon words: benzoxyacetanilide, parahydroxybenzoic (8-t)
y        common words: recognizably, recognizability (5-t)
        uncommon word: brazenfacedly (8)
        hyphenated phrase: gazelle-faced wallaby (9)
z        common words: cannibalized, carbonized, bureaucratized (6-t)
        uncommon word: brazenfaced (7)
        phrase: exchange stabilization fund (10)

Word Containing Most Consecutive Letters in Order after Each Letter
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a        common word: absconded (5)
b        common words: backside, backwardness, subcode, backgrounded, backslide, absconded, biocides, backdate, blockaders, backslidden, backslider, backhanded, barricade, blockade, brocade, ... and 7 others (4-t)
        hyphenated word: backside-front (5)
c        common word: schadenfreude (4)
        phrases: children of light, code flag (5-t)
d        common words: debriefing, defaming, videoconferencing, defogger, defrag, defecting, defusing, defecating, diversifying, indefatigable, underfunding, detoxifying, understaffing, deflowering, demystifying, denitrifying, defragged, decalcifying, misidentifying, ... and 35 others (4-t)
        hyphenated word: dead-freight (5)
e        common words: spaceflight, preflight, refight, overflight, prizefighter (4-t)
        uncommon word: reflectographies (5)
f        common word: flagship (4)
g        common words: graphical, pornographic, demographic, graphing, cryptographic, typographical, geophysical, oceanographic, glutathione, typographic, geophysics, ghosting, cartographic, topographic, toughie, cryptographically, topographical, gunship, spectrographic, ... and 81 others (3-t)
        phrase: laughing jackass (5)
h        common words: hijinks, highjack, hijack (4-t)
i        common words: straitjacket, straightjacket, hijinks, highjack, hijack (3-t)
        uncommon word: rijksdaalder (4)
j        common words: jackal, jerkily, jokingly (3-t)
        phrase: jack salmon (5)
k        common word: kleptomaniac (4)
        uncommon word: kilmarnock (5)
l        common words: culmination, flamenco, supplementation, luminosity, eliminator, plasminogen, illuminator, delamination, lamination, fulminations, luminiferous, lymphadenopathy, leguminous, elimination, filamentous, flamingo, illumination, lamentation, luminous, ... and 10 others (4-t)
        uncommon words: aluminotype, alimentotherapy, aluminography, helminthosporia, helminthosporin, helminthosporium, helminthosporoid, laminograph, laminography, ... and 25 others (5-t)
m        common words: minicomputer, menopause, misanthrope, misanthropy, acetaminophen, magnetosphere, immunosuppression, immunotherapy, menopausal, immunocompromised, aminopeptidase, immunoprecipitation, mentorship, gymnosperms, immunosuppressant, maintop, ... and 3 others (4-t)
        uncommon word: semnopitheque (5)
n        common words: newsgroup, censorship, entropy, synopsis, uncompressed, incompatibility, unopened, interoperability, francophone, anthropologist, unstoppable, introspection, inoperative, neoprene, anthropological, underdeveloped, synopses, xenophobia, notepad, ... and 81 others (3-t)
        uncommon words: nonopaque, semnopitheque (4-t)
        phrases: animis opibusque parati, antelope squirrel (5-t)
o        common words: opaqueness, opaque (3-t)
        uncommon word: opaquers (5)
p        common words: prequel, pique, applique, parquet, epoque, pratique, piquant, palanquin, paraquat, piquet, perquisite, prequalifying, opaqueness, picaresque, opaque, physique, picturesque, plaque, prerequisite, ... and 10 others (2-t)
        uncommon words: piqueros, pulquerias, opaquers, appliquers, picqueters, piquerias, piqueurs (4-t)
q        common word: aquarist (4)
r        common words: reconstructive, redistributive (5-t)
s        common words: reconstructive, constitutive, obstructive, nondestructive, deconstructive, constructivism, redistributive, stimulative, nonconstructive, distributivity, constructive, destructive, destructiveness, distributive, instructive, ... and 3 others (4-t)
        phrase: distributive law (5)
t        common words: intuitive, turnover, intrusive, truelove, trouve, obtrusive, antediluvian, reconstructive, constitutive, obstructive, nondestructive, retributive, triumvirate, deconstructive, constructivism, redistributive, stimulative, intrusiveness, intersubjective, ... and 26 others (3-t)
        phrases: distributive law, intrusive growth, turn over a new leaf (4-t)
u        common words: purview, unreviewed (3-t)
v        common words: overview, overwrite, overwritten, disavow, vaporware, viewfinder, giveaway, overblown, heavyweight, viewable, purview, previewed, viewings, interviewee, rearview, overwrote, overdrawn, viewership, overwrought, ... and 81 others (2-t)
        hyphenated word: grave-wax (3)
w        common word: waxy (3)
        phrase: waxy maize (4)
x        common words: explicitly, homosexuality, sexuality, extensively, proximity, epoxy, externally, oxymoron, expectancy, expressly, toxicity, exponentially, bisexuality, experimentally, heterosexuality, exemplary, orthodoxy, exploratory, carboxylase, ... and 81 others (2-t)
        uncommon word: oxygenizable (5)
y        common words: synchronization, hybridization, polymerization, proselytization, symbolization, stylization, systemization (3-t)
        uncommon words: hypnotizability, hypnotizable, unhypnotizable, etymologizable, hydrolyzable, oxygenizable, photolyzable, polymerizable, pyrolyzable, ... and 2 others (4-t)
z        common words: recognizable, customizable, unrecognizable, recognizably, squeezable, cognizable, zaibatsu, zabaglione, recognizability, memorizable, sizable, sizeable (3-t)
        uncommon words: mozambican, mozarabic, zambuck (4-t)

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