What are the word records for Telephone keypad?
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What are the word records for Telephone keypad? (Spelling / Letters Selected from Given Set / Entire Word) a. isotel pair (word spells out same telephone number as another word) [8-227,11-215] i. longest well-mixed b. spelled with consecutive letters on adjacent keys, longest for each letter c. spelled with even phone keys, longest d. spelled with odd phone keys, longest e. spelled using all phone keys, shortest f. spelled using phone keys in groups, 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. ]
a. isotel pair (word spells out same telephone number as another word) [8-227,11-215]
i. longest well-mixed
common words: rearrested & reasserted (10-t)
common words: comprising & conspiring (10-t)
uncommon words: compurgator & constrictor (11-t)
uncommon words: reimbursing & reincurring (11-t)
uncommon words: ungossiping & uninspiring (11-t)
ii. isotel pair with no letters in common, longest
common words: astride & brushed (7-t)
common words: amounts & contour (7-t)
common words: damaged & ecocide (7-t)
common words: hotbeds & invader (7-t)
uncommon words: amoebids & bondager (8-t)
uncommon words: acacetin & cacafugo (8-t)
uncommon words: jingling & khoikhoi (8-t)
b. spelled with consecutive letters on adjacent keys, longest for each letter
see list "Longest Word with Consecutive Letters Adjacent on Phone Keypad, Beginning with Each Letter" below
c. spelled with even phone keys, longest
common words: contamination, communicating, communication, contaminating (13-t)
uncommon words: monocontaminating, monocontamination (17-t)
d. spelled with odd phone keys, longest
common word: selflessly (10)
uncommon words: perplexedly, reexpressed, preferredly, sleeplessly, derepressed, expressless, pepperweeds, skysweepers, welldresser, ... and 2 others (11-t)
hyphenated words: self-perplexed, well-expressed (13-t)
e. spelled using all phone keys, shortest
common words: idolatry, keypunch, playtime, enthalpy, dilatory, foxtails, adroitly, gunwales, haylofts, uneasily, unfairly (8-t)
f. spelled using phone keys in groups, longest
common word: irredeemably (12)
uncommon word: zoometrically (13)
Longest Word with Consecutive Letters Adjacent on Phone Keypad, Beginning with Each Letter
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a common word: anticoagulants (14)
uncommon word: antichristianly (15)
b common word: bechamel (8)
uncommon word: bicentricity (12)
phrase: block and block (13)
c common words: councilman, clothbound, councilmen (10-t)
uncommon word: christocentricity (17)
d common words: downcourt, doltishly (9-t)
uncommon word: downthrusts (11)
e common words: entitlements, enchantments (12-t)
ERROR: enchaicnements
f common word: flagstick (9)
uncommon word: flagsticks (10)
g common word: ganciclovir (11)
phrase: game of chance (12)
h common words: halothane, humanlike (9-t)
uncommon word: hustlements (11)
phrases: hail columbia, handle blanks (12-t)
hyphenated phrase: half-Christian (13)
i common word: icebound (8)
uncommon word: ileocolitis (11)
j common words: joviality, jealously (9-t)
uncommon words: jovicentric, jumblements (11-t)
phrase: justice courts (13)
k common word: kilovolts (9)
uncommon words: kamchadale, kamchadals (10-t)
hyphenated word: kana-majiris (11)
l common word: luxuriantly (11)
phrase: lots to blanks (12)
m common word: maladjustment (13)
uncommon word: multicentricity (15)
n common words: nunchaku, nuptials (8-t)
uncommon word: neothalamus (11)
o common word: obelisks (8)
uncommon word: obliviality (11)
p common words: phlebitis, planeload, plantlike (9-t)
uncommon words: phleboliths, pilpulistic, ptolemaists (11-t)
r common word: rustlike (8)
uncommon word: rhadamanthus (12)
phrase: rice christian (13)
s common word: shantytown (10)
uncommon words: silicicolous, stylistician (12-t)
phrase: silence cloths (13)
t common words: triviality, thumbnails (10-t)
uncommon words: trivialists, thricecocks, tylenchulus (11-t)
phrase: triple blocks (12)
u common word: unchristian (11)
uncommon word: unchristianlike (15)
v common words: virulently, visibility (10-t)
w common word: wouldn (6)
uncommon word: wolvishly (9)
x common word: x (1)
uncommon word: xoana (5)
phrase: x virus (6)
y common word: yokels (6)
uncommon word: yokelish (8)
-- Taxonomy of Wordplay, www.questrel.com