What are the word records for deletion and insertion?

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Problem

What are the word records for deletion and insertion?
(Spelling / Relations to Other Words / Entire Word)

  a.  charitable and hospitable, longest [5-54,8-109]
  b.  stingy and hostile, shortest [5-54]

[ 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: [9-161]

a.  charitable and hospitable, longest [5-54,8-109]
        uncommon words: bets : ets & bts & bes & bet & abets & beets & beats & betas & betsy (4-t)
        uncommon words: bits : its & bts & bis & bit & obits & baits & bints & bites & bitsy (4-t)
        uncommon words: abas : bas & aas & abs & aba & babas & abbas & abbas & abacs & abase (4-t)
        uncommon words: agas : gas & aas & ags & aga & magas & aigas & agbas & agals & agast (4-t)
        uncommon words: ared : red & aed & ard & are & bared & acred & arced & aread & aredd (4-t)
        uncommon words: amia : mia & aia & ama & ami & bamia & aemia & amnia & amiga & amias (4-t)
        ... and 15 others
b.  stingy and hostile, shortest [5-54]
        common words: idly (4-t)
        common words: razz (4-t)
        common words: ugly (4-t)

-- Taxonomy of Wordplay, www.questrel.com