What are the word records for alternating?
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What are the word records for alternating? (Spelling / Structure / Subset of Word) a. two-cadence (letter repeated every two), longest [17-26,23-214] b. three-cadence (letter repeated every three), longest c. four-cadence (letter repeated every four), longest d. five-cadence (letter repeated every five), longest [ 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: [4-77,5-73,12-91]
a. two-cadence (letter repeated every two), longest [17-26,23-214]
common words: divisibility, visibilities (5-t)
uncommon word: humuhumunukunukuapuaa (8)
b. three-cadence (letter repeated every three), longest
common words: effervescence, inconveniencing, unexpectednesses (5-t)
hyphenated word: swelled-headednesses (6)
c. four-cadence (letter repeated every four), longest
common words: ineligibilities, inevitabilities (4-t)
phrases: binomial distribution, read between the lines (5-t)
d. five-cadence (letter repeated every five), longest
common words: collaboration, contamination, individualism, concatenation, preponderance, multiculturalism, insemination, corroboration, directionality, dimensionality, librarianship, bioengineering, nonfunctional, decontamination, registerable, underdevelopment, indecipherable, multitudinous, belligerence, ... and 81 others (3-t)
uncommon words: benzeneazobenzene, indecipherablenesses, noncontamination, recollectivenesses (4-t)
phrase: textured vegetable protein (5)
-- Taxonomy of Wordplay, www.questrel.com