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Standard practice for alphabetization in English is that if one word is longer than another but the shorter word forms the start of the longer one, the longer one comes after the shorter one. For example:

"alphabet" precedes "alphabetical"

"luck" precedes "lucky"

and so on.

One way to think of this is to consider the shorter word to be padded on the right with spaces. Rules of alphabetization consider a space to come before any letter; e.g. if ^ stands for a pad space,

CAR^^^ comes before CARPET ("CAR" matches, ^^^ comes before "PET")

just like

CARPET comes before CARTON ("PET" comes before "TON")

The simply rule is that 'nothing' comes before something.

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