What are the word records for alternating vowel/consonant?

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Problem

What are the word records for alternating vowel/consonant?
(Spelling / Vowel-Consonant Patterns / Entire Word)

  a. longest
  b. longest including y

[ 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: [L169,23-161]

a. longest
        common words: verisimilitude, rehabilitative (14-t)
        uncommon word: diketopiperazines (17)
        phrases: morituri te salutamus, political executives (19-t)
b. longest including y
        common word: generalizability (16)
        uncommon word: honorificabilitudinity (22)

-- Taxonomy of Wordplay, www.questrel.com