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What are the word records for consonym (words with same consonant pattern), longest?

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What are the word records for consonym (words with same consonant pattern), longest?
(Spelling / Vowel-Consonant Patterns / Entire Word)

[ 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: [11-42]

e.g., BeTRay = oBiTuaRy
common words: macroevolutionary & microevolutionary (17-t)
common words: spectrophotometer & spectrophotometry (17-t)
common words: indistinguishable & indistinguishably (17-t)
common words: interdependences & interdependencies (17-t)
uncommon words: diphenylaminechlorarsine & diphenylaminechloroarsine (24-t)
uncommon words: electroencephalographs & electroencephalographies (24-t)
uncommon words: microspectrophotometres & microspectrophotometries (24-t)
uncommon words: polytetrafluorethylenes & polytetrafluoroethylenes (24-t)
uncommon words: stereophotomicrographs & stereophotomicrographies (24-t)
phrases: transmission electron microscopes & transmission electron microscopies (32)

-- Taxonomy of Wordplay, www.questrel.com