What are the word records for insertion?

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

  a.  hydration (more than one way to add letter to front to form another word), longest [6-198]
  b.  hospitable (insert letter anywhere to form another word), longest [4-171,23-134,M88]
  c.  hostile (cannot insert letter anywhere to form word), shortest length  3 [5-54,5-109]

[ 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.  hydration (more than one way to add letter to front to form another word), longest [6-198]
        common words: enunciation : denunciation & renunciation (0.11)
        uncommon words: evolutionists : devolutionists & revolutionists (0.13-t)
        uncommon words: athematically : mathematically & pathematically (0.13-t)
        uncommon words: irelessnesses : tirelessnesses & wirelessnesses (0.13-t)
b.  hospitable (insert letter anywhere to form another word), longest [4-171,23-134,M88]
        common words: ruse : cruse & reuse & russe & russe & ruses (4)
        uncommon words: cares : scares & chares & cadres & caries & carers & caress (5-t)
        uncommon words: curie : ecurie & courie & cuirie & curnie & curiae & curies (5-t)
        uncommon words: gamas : agamas & gramas & gammas & gambas & gamays & gamash (5-t)
        uncommon words: heres : theres & haeres & heares & herbes & herems & heresy (5-t)
        uncommon words: manes : emanes & meanes & magnes & mandes & manebs & maness (5-t)
        uncommon words: pates : spates & plates & pastes & patres & patels & patesi (5-t)
        uncommon words: sores : tsores & scores & soares & sordes & sorees & sorest (5-t)
c.  hostile (cannot insert letter anywhere to form word), shortest length  3 [5-54,5-109]
        common words: ahoy (4-t)
        common words: apex (4-t)
        common words: city (4-t)
        common words: coax (4-t)
        common words: cpus (4-t)
        common words: drew (4-t)
        common words: ebbs (4-t)
        common words: else (4-t)
        common words: espy (4-t)
        ... and 21 others

-- Taxonomy of Wordplay, www.questrel.com