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What are the word records for spelling graphs (draw line from letter to letter looping back for repeated...

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What are the word records for spelling graphs (draw line from letter to letter looping back for repeated letters)?
(Spelling / Structure / Entire Word)

  a. eodermdrone (spelling graph cannot be drawn in the plane without crossing lines), shortest

[ 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: [M41, 13-131,141,14-23,89,251]

a. eodermdrone (spelling graph cannot be drawn in the plane without crossing lines), shortest
        uncommon word: metasomatoses (13)

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