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What are the word records for bigrams or digrams?

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What are the word records for bigrams or digrams?
(Spelling / Structure / Subset of Word)

  a.  beginning, all 676 possible [B129,8-89,207,12-39]
  b.  ending, all 676 possible [B101,3-152,211,8-165,208,12-39,152,16-157]
  c.  start and end, all 676 possible
  i.  longest [4-45,195,5-15,6-186]
  d.  straddling hyphen, all 676 possible [14-199,15-16,18-90]
  e.  anywhere, all 676 possible [2-215,3-19,8-88,153,9-17,15-215,16-26]
  f.  double, triple, quadruple, all 676 possible [22-162]
  g.  long strings, all 325 possible [15-72,153,212]
  h.  five letter words, all 13000 possible [11-226,12-22]

[ 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.  beginning, all 676 possible [B129,8-89,207,12-39]
b.  ending, all 676 possible [B101,3-152,211,8-165,208,12-39,152,16-157]
c.  start and end, all 676 possible
        i.  longest [4-45,195,5-15,6-186]
        ii.  shortest [5-40,81]
d.  straddling hyphen, all 676 possible [14-199,15-16,18-90]
e.  anywhere, all 676 possible [2-215,3-19,8-88,153,9-17,15-215,16-26]
f.  double, triple, quadruple, all 676 possible [22-162]
g.  long strings, all 325 possible [15-72,153,212]
h.  five letter words, all 13000 possible [11-226,12-22]

-- Taxonomy of Wordplay, www.questrel.com