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homophones (words spelled differently but pronounced the same)longest
uncommon words: uncomplementarinesses => uncomplimentarinesses (21)
homophones with no removable prefix or suffix, longest
uncommon words: corespondent => correspondent (25)
most letters in list with no removable prefix or suffix
uncommon words: scissel & scissile & sicel & sisal & sisel & sissle & syssel (42)
longest phrase with no removable prefix or suffix
phrases: Grothendieck K-theory => growth-and-decay theory
most [7-107]
uncommon words: aer & air & are & ayer & ayr & e'er & ere & err & eyre & heir & ur (11)
longest with few letters in common [1-144]
uncommon words: shofar => chauffeur (3 out of 15)
uncommon words: ceresin => Saracen (2 out of 14)
uncommon words: cotter => Kadir (1 out of 11)
uncommon words: cough => Kaf (0 out of 8)
longest transposal [L97]
uncommon words: discreteness => discreetness (12)
matched homophones (a homophone pair whose transposals are also homophones) [2-118]
e.g. READ / REED => DEAR / DEER
confusing code words [5-168,6-164,26-249,46-154]
e.g. G as in GNU, K as in KNOT
see list Word That is a Confusing Code for Each Letter
punetic alphabet (letter names read as puns) [5-111,8-94,37-159,39-121]
e.g. A for 'orses, B for mutton, C for yourself
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