What are the word records for letters in alphabetical place or alphabet crashes?
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What are the word records for letters in alphabetical place or alphabet crashes? (Spelling / Alphabetical Order / Subset of Word) a. letters in alphabetical place without shifting alphabet, containing most b. letters in alphabetical place with shifting alphabet, containing most c. no letters in alphabetical place, longest d. last letter invariant, for each letter [4-96] e. first letter reverse invariant, for each letter [4-91] [ 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: [5-133,140,206,12-59]
a. letters in alphabetical place without shifting alphabet, containing most
common word: archetypical (5)
phrase: archegonial chambers (6)
b. letters in alphabetical place with shifting alphabet, containing most
common words: inoperative, cooperatively, neighborlinesses (6-t)
phrases: adenosine monophosphate, archiepiscopal staves, cyclic adenosine monophosphate, filiform apparatus, ... and 4 others (7-t)
c. no letters in alphabetical place, longest
common word: deinstitutionalization (22)
uncommon words: floccinaucinihilipilifications, trinitrophenylmethylnitramines (30-t)
phrases: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, commissioners standard ordinary table, erasable programmable read only memory, fractional orbital bombardment system, ... and 6 others (34-t)
d. last letter invariant, for each letter [4-96]
e. first letter reverse invariant, for each letter [4-91]
-- Taxonomy of Wordplay, www.questrel.com