What are the word records for transaddition (add one letter and rearrange to form another word)?

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What are the word records for transaddition (add one letter and rearrange to form another word)?
(Spelling / Relations to Other Words / Entire Word)

  a.  cannot add a letter and transpose to form word, shortest [4-109]
  b.  alphabetic [4-115,248,5-105,13-102,17-37,83]

[ 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.  cannot add a letter and transpose to form word, shortest [4-109]
                common words: hazy (4-t)
                common words: jinx (4-t)
                common words: jury (4-t)
                common words: razz (4-t)
                common words: waxy (4-t)
        b.  alphabetic [4-115,248,5-105,13-102,17-37,83]
                common words: tier : irate & tribe & trice & tried & retie & refit & tiger & their & trike & tiler & miter & inter & petri & trier & tiers & trite & uteri & rivet & write (19)
                uncommon words: te : eat & bet & tec & ted & tee & fet & get & the & tie & jet & ket & let & met & net & toe & pet & tre & set & tet & tue & vet & wet & ext & yet & tze (25-t)
                uncommon words: rase : areas & baser & acres & dears & saree & fares & gears & rheas & arise & rejas & saker & seral & reams & earns & arose & rapes & rears & sears & stare & ureas & versa & swear & raxes & years & razes (25-t)
                uncommon words: seer : saree & beers & ceres & redes & resee & frees & serge & sheer & siree & jeers & reeks & reels & meres & sneer & erose & perse & qeres & serer & seers & trees & reuse & verse & sewer & sexer & eyres (25-t)
                uncommon words: ates : aetas & beast & cesta & sated & tease & feats & gates & haste & iteas & tajes & stake & slate & steam & nates & aotes & spate & stare & easts & teats & saute & vesta & waste & texas & yeast & zetas (25-t)
                phrases: At : ata & tab & cat & dat & eat & aft & tag & hat & ati & taj & kat & lat & mat & ant & oat & apt & qat & art & sat & tat & tau & vat & twa & tax & yat & AZT (26-t)
                phrases: T & As : atas & bats & cats & stad & teas & fast & stag & hats & atis & tajs & task & slat & mats & tans & oats & spat & qats & rats & asts & atts & taus & vats & twas & xats & stay & AZTs (26-t)

-- Taxonomy of Wordplay, www.questrel.com