What are the word records for ratio letters with ascenders to those without, highest?

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What are the word records for ratio letters with ascenders to those without, highest?
(Spelling / Letter Appearance / Subset of 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. ]

common words: killifish, hillbilly (0.88-t)
hyphenated word: fifty-fifth (0.9)

-- Taxonomy of Wordplay, www.questrel.com