What are the word records for Morse code?
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What are the word records for Morse code? (Spelling / Letters Selected from Given Set / Entire Word) a. specific patterns of dots and dashes i. Morse code is entirely dots, longest v. Morse code is entirely dot-dot-dashes, longest b. sequence of repeated dots in Morse code, longest c. sequence of repeated dashes in Morse code, longest d. Morse code for each letter is 1 symbol, longest e. Morse code for each letter is 2 symbols, longest f. Morse code for each letter is 3 symbols, longest g. Morse code for each letter is 4 symbols, longest h. palindrome in Morse code, longest i. isomorse pair (same Morse code words if pauses are ignored) [6-187] i. longest well-mixed v. no two Morse sequences decode to same letter, longest list j. Morse code reversal pair (reversed Morse code words if pauses are ignored) i. longest k. iskot pair (reverse dots and dashes and ignore pauses in Morse code to form another word) [12-216] i. longest [ 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: [1-207,8-209,13-159]
a. specific patterns of dots and dashes
i. Morse code is entirely dots, longest
common word: sissies (7)
ii. Morse code is entirely dashes, longest
common word: motto (5)
uncommon word: motmot (6)
iii. Morse code is entirely dot-dashes, longest
common word: entente (7)
iv. Morse code is entirely dash-dots, longest
common word: tartar (6)
v. Morse code is entirely dot-dot-dashes, longest
common words: fetid, frena, erred (5-t)
uncommon word: fained (6)
vi. Morse code is entirely dot-dash-dots, longest
common word: retinae (7)
uncommon word: retinene (8)
vii. Morse code is entirely dot-dash-dashes, longest
common word: empty (5)
uncommon word: wayang (6)
viii. Morse code is entirely dash-dot-dashes, longest
common words: tempt, twang (5-t)
uncommon word: yeggman (7)
ix. Morse code is entirely dash-dash-dots, longest
common word: mate (4)
uncommon word: matata (6)
b. sequence of repeated dots in Morse code, longest
common word: hashishes (20)
uncommon words: bakhsheeshes, bakhshishes (24-t)
c. sequence of repeated dashes in Morse code, longest
common word: bottommost (15)
uncommon word: myomotomy (17)
d. Morse code for each letter is 1 symbol, longest
common word: tee (3)
uncommon word: teetee (6)
e. Morse code for each letter is 2 symbols, longest
common words: manana, mannan, minima (6-t)
uncommon words: anamnia, miamian (7-t)
f. Morse code for each letter is 3 symbols, longest
common word: woodworks (9)
phrase: sour gourds (10)
g. Morse code for each letter is 4 symbols, longest
common word: flyby (5)
h. palindrome in Morse code, longest
common word: intransigence (13)
i. isomorse pair (same Morse code words if pauses are ignored) [6-187]
i. longest well-mixed
common words: kibbles & travesties (10-t)
common words: blacking & blanketing (10-t)
common words: chagrins & chatterers (10-t)
common words: chillies & cheeriness (10-t)
common words: cocking & contenting (10-t)
common words: deceitful & dentifrice (10-t)
common words: greenwing & generating (10-t)
common words: krills & tendinitis (10-t)
common words: quaking & quantitate (10-t)
... and 23 others
uncommon words: eke & pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosises (47)
ii. longest measured in number of dots and dashes
common words: limberness & reimburses (25)
uncommon words: buckishly & thanklessly (31-t)
uncommon words: disspreading & bessemerizing (31-t)
uncommon words: highbinders & hephthalites (31-t)
uncommon words: eke & pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosises (31-t)
phrases: hand gallops & signature loans (34)
iii. longest list
common words: babe & bans & bath & begs & digs & duns & nips & bates & deans & death & dimes (11)
uncommon words: pah & prs & axes & emfs & pase & pedi & pens & prie & wers & wins & with & aneth & pedee & penie & petes & wease & weens & wites & ettins & weenie (20)
phrases: PA's & PAs & axs & pas & wus & Anas & Wide & anas & emus & pede & peni & pets & pree & weas & weri & wide & wit's & wits & wits' & emits & etnas & weets (22-t)
phrases: PRs & pah & prs & axes & emfs & pase & pedi & pens & prie & wers & wins & with & aneth & pedee & penie & petes & wease & weens & wites & at ease & ettins & weenie (22-t)
phrases: BLs & DUIs & ThDs & basi & beds & dels & dinh & nils & Benes & Bethe & bene s & benes & betis & deeds & deres & didie & dines & neids & teils & deedie & testis & testees (22-t)
iv. highest word to symbol ratio [8-171]
common words: d & ne & ti & tee (1.33)
uncommon words: bai & bed & del & did & dui & nil & bene & deed & dere & dine & neid & nied & teil & tiel & tsai & testee (2-t)
uncommon words: xi & nai & ned & tel & tid & tui & nene & teed & tine & titi & teene & teetee (2-t)
uncommon words: xis & nais & nasi & neds & tels & tids & tuis & tusi & nenes & telei & teres & terse & tines & tithe & titis & teenes & teethe & teetees (2-t)
uncommon words: pah & prs & axes & emfs & pase & pedi & pens & prie & wers & wins & with & aneth & pedee & penie & petes & wease & weens & wites & ettins & weenie (2-t)
hyphenated words: xi & nai & ned & tel & tid & tui & nene & teed & tine & titi & teene & tee-tee & teetee (2.16)
v. no two Morse sequences decode to same letter, longest list
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j. Morse code reversal pair (reversed Morse code words if pauses are ignored)
i. longest
common words: identical & internecine (11-t)
common words: preempted & intemperate (11-t)
common words: fracture & intertwined (11-t)
common words: shipping & antipathies (11-t)
common words: urgently & maintenance (11-t)
uncommon words: shiverings & settlednesses (13)
phrases: 3 & do something as though it were going out of fashion (42)
ii. longest measured in number of dots and dashes
common words: shipping & antipathies (24-t)
common words: shivering & wavinesses (24-t)
uncommon words: funiculars & secularized (30)
phrases: 3 & do something as though it were going out of fashion (108)
k. iskot pair (reverse dots and dashes and ignore pauses in Morse code to form another word) [12-216]
i. longest
common words: nostalgia & lamentation (11)
uncommon words: tent & pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosises (47)
ii. longest measured in number of dots and dashes
common words: nostalgia & lamentation (22)
uncommon words: goatsbeard & infamatory (25-t)
uncommon words: alarmedly & cornrowed (25-t)
uncommon words: tent & pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosises (25-t)
phrases: second banana & once upon a time (30)
-- Taxonomy of Wordplay, www.questrel.com
[ Editor: Morse code palindromes that keep the spaces between letters,
from the alt.anagrams/rec.puzzles thread "Other kinds of palindromes",
July 1995. ]
In article <3tujcm$m0e@news.service.uci.edu>, <mroozee@math.uci.edu>
wrote:
>Just thinking off the top of my head, but 'intransigence' is longer
>than either.
If this was a response to the Morse Code palindromes
.._. ___ ___ _ ... _ ___ ___ ._..
F O O T S T O O L
and my longer one:
._. . _... . ._.. .._. . ..._ . ._.
R E B E L F E V E R
then your submission 'intransigence' simply doesn't qualify. It's not
a Morse code palindrome. (Unless you totally disregard the space
between letters!)
.. _. _ ._. ._ _. ... .. __. . _. _._. .
I N T R A N S I G E N C E
-- Jim Waters <jwaters@az.com>