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What are the word records for eight letter?

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What are the word records for eight letter?
(Spelling / Vowel-Consonant Patterns / Entire Word)

  a.  one vowel, all eight possible [5-26]
  b.  six vowels, all 28 possible [3-213]

[ 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.  one vowel, all eight possible [5-26]
b.  six vowels, all 28 possible [3-213]

-- Taxonomy of Wordplay, www.questrel.com