What are the word records for sumword (word converted to the sum of the frequency of its letters per...
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What are the word records for sumword (word converted to the sum of the frequency of its letters per thousand words in normal text)? (Spelling / Frequency Order / Entire Word) a. most infrequently used letters, for each length b. most frequently used letters, for each length c. sumgram pair (words with same sumword sum), highest [ 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: [23-43,45]
a. most infrequently used letters, for each length
see list "Word with the Most Infrequently Used Letters for Each Length" below
b. most frequently used letters, for each length
see list "Word with the Most Frequently Used Letters for Each Length" below
c. sumgram pair (words with same sumword sum), highest
common words: disinterestedness & lightheartednesses (13.26)
uncommon words: intercomprehensibilities & pseudointernationalistic (16.74-t)
uncommon words: pseudointernationalistic & tetraiodophenolphthalein (16.74-t)
phrases: neither fish nor flesh nor good red herring & terminating building and loan association (23.59)
hyphenated phrases: non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus & peoples' commissiariat of internal affairs (23.92)
Word with the Most Infrequently Used Letters for Each Length
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2 common word: by (37)
uncommon word: xx (8)
3 common word: jug (54)
uncommon word: zzz (3)
4 common word: buzz (50)
5 common word: fuzzy (73)
uncommon word: buzzy (70)
6 common word: dybbuk (128)
uncommon word: kumbuk (125)
hyphenated word: jug-jug (108)
7 common word: pizzazz (180)
uncommon word: zyzzyva (134)
8 common word: buzzword (241)
uncommon word: kukukuku (160)
9 common word: buckyball (292)
uncommon word: kukukukus (226)
hyphenated word: mucky-muck (224)
10 common word: humbugging (356)
uncommon word: xyloglyphy (319)
hyphenated word: fuzzy-wuzzy (145)
11 common word: quizzically (396)
uncommon word: bumfuzzling (331)
12 common word: piggybacking (456)
uncommon word: zygophyllums (421)
hyphenated word: wibbly-wobbly (380)
13 common word: swashbuckling (573)
uncommon word: brachyphyllum (496)
hyphenated word: high-mucky-muck (414)
14 common word: unscrupulously (624)
uncommon word: brachyphyllums (562)
hyphenated word: high-muck-a-mucks (540)
phrase: milky way galaxy (536)
15 common word: polymorphically (693)
uncommon word: chylophyllously (637)
hyphenated word: high-muckety-muck (623)
phrase: roxbury waxworks (605)
16 common word: psychophysiology (740)
uncommon words: psychophysically, hydroxylammonium (720-t)
hyphenated word: high-muckety-mucks (689)
phrase: burkwood viburnum (644)
17 common word: cryptographically (830)
uncommon word: hydroxylammoniums (786)
phrases: dum vivimus vivamus, dum vivimus, vivamus (683-t)
18 common word: psychopharmacology (864)
uncommon word: sphygmographically (808)
hyphenated phrase: black-backed jackals (788)
19 common word: psychophysiological (948)
uncommon word: hydrodesulphurizing (929)
phrase: quillback carpsucker (844)
hyphenated phrase: ch'ung-ch'ing, chungking (816)
20 common word: psychopharmacologist (1073)
uncommon word: psychobiographically (961)
phrase: quillback carpsuckers (910)
Word with the Most Frequently Used Letters for Each Length
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2 common word: et (209)
uncommon word: ee (236)
3 common word: tee (327)
4 common word: tees (393)
uncommon word: tete (418)
5 common words: tenet, eerie (486-t)
uncommon word: teene (513)
6 common words: testee, settee (602-t)
uncommon word: teetee (654)
7 common word: entente (672)
uncommon word: entetee (722)
8 common word: teetered (748)
uncommon word: teaettes (773)
9 common words: teensiest, reiterate (808-t)
uncommon word: theetsees (835)
hyphenated word: tete-a-tete (916)
10 common word: sententiae (890)
uncommon word: teentsiest (899)
hyphenated word: tete-a-tetes (982)
11 common word: leatherette (976)
uncommon word: tennesseean (979)
hyphenated word: tetes-a-tetes (1048)
12 common word: serenenesses (1050)
uncommon word: teetertotter (1125)
13 common word: earnestnesses (1103)
uncommon word: tetraacetates (1118)
hyphenated word: teeter-totters (1191)
14 common word: entertainments (1137)
uncommon word: enterocenteses (1212)
hyphenated word: teeter-tottered (1277)
15 common word: attentivenesses (1242)
uncommon word: heterogeneratae (1267)
hyphenated word: teeter-tottering (1285)
16 common word: relentlessnesses (1291)
uncommon word: regeneratenesses (1353)
17 common word: reinterpretations (1335)
uncommon word: inattentivenesses (1382)
phrase: interest lotteries (1420)
18 common word: representativeness (1413)
uncommon word: interrelatednesses (1454)
phrase: set one's teeth on edge (1508)
19 common word: disinterestednesses (1510)
uncommon word: tenderheartednesses (1541)
phrase: neither here nor there (1563)
20 common word: internationalization (1450)
uncommon word: representativenesses (1597)
hyphenated word: testament-testamentar (1642)
-- Taxonomy of Wordplay, www.questrel.com