What are the word records for each once?

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What are the word records for each once?
(Spelling / Vowels / Subset of Word)

  a.  each vowel once, longest
  b.  each vowel including y once, longest [2-64]
  c.  each vowel once, shortest
  d.  each vowel including y once, shortest

[ 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: [L160, 23-214]

a.  each vowel once, longest
        common word: unsportsmanlike (15)
        uncommon words: entwicklungsroman, subpostmastership, unaccomplishments (17-t)
        phrases: bucking transformers, disjunct tetrachords (19-t)
b.  each vowel including y once, longest [2-64]
        common words: uncomplimentary, uncopyrightable (15-t)
        uncommon word: hydrometallurgists (18)
        phrase: florist's chrysanthemums (22)
c.  each vowel once, shortest
        common word: sequoia (7)
        uncommon word: eunoia (6)
d.  each vowel including y once, shortest
        common words: eukaryotic, buoyancies (10-t)
        uncommon words: oxyuridae, oxygeusia (9-t)

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