What are the word records for overlapping words?

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What are the word records for overlapping words?
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  a.  crash list (word list with matching letters in some positions)
  i.  longest symmetric [11-230]
  b.  chain (list of overlapping words) [15-93,212]
  c.  circle or ring (list of overlapping words that loops back to the first word) [B23,1-215,9-161,10-189,11-215,18-167]
  d.  compasses [23-54]

[ 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. ]

a.  crash list (word list with matching letters in some positions)
        i.  longest symmetric [11-230]
                see "Crashing Words" article
        ii.  one-crash [19-146,215]
        iii.  pan-crash [8-112,15-186,211]
        iv.  non-crash, longest [B71,5-107,174,6-67,156,15-95,151,19-91]
b.  chain (list of overlapping words) [15-93,212]
c.  circle or ring (list of overlapping words that loops back to the first word) [B23,1-215,9-161,10-189,11-215,18-167]
d.  compasses [23-54]

-- Taxonomy of Wordplay, www.questrel.com