What word has 3 double letter in it?

An old riddle asks, “Can you name a word with three consecutive double letters?” One possible answer is WOOLLEN - 'double U, double O, double L, …' A more satisfying solution is BOOKKEEPER (or BOOKKEEPING), the only common words with a consecutive triple double.

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What word has 3 of the same letters?

From Oxford Dictionaries: The answer is not really, because the usual rules of English spelling outlaw triple letters. We put hyphens in words that contain three of the same letters in a row, so as to break the letters up, e.g. bee-eater, bell-like, cross-section, cross-subsidize, joss-stick, and shell-less.

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Is there a word with 4 double letters?

Subbookkeeper is the only word in the English language with 4 consecutive double letters.

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Is there a 2 letter Z word?

About the Word:

ZA is the most played word containing the letter Z (and the only playable two-letter word with the letter Z) in tournament SCRABBLE play.

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What word has 2 V in it?

flivver /ˈflɪvɚ/ (fli-vr) is an outdated American slang term used for a small car that gave a rough ride. divvy /ˈdɪvi/ (div-ee) is a slang term meaning “to divide”. Derived expressions are “divvies”, “divvying”, and “divvied”.

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What English word has three consecutive double letters ?

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Which 3 letter word has 645 meanings?

One three-letter word does much of the heavy lifting in the English language. The little word "run" — in its verb form alone — has 645 distinct meanings.

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Is there a word with 3 letters in a row?

English does not allow three letters in a row. When there are three letters in a row in a word it will be hyphenated. As an example bee-eater is a noun and a name of some sort of animal or insect most likely that eats bees.

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What word has 3 consecutive triple letters?

Anyway, the word is “bookkeeper”. bookkeeper; however, if u are asking for three consecutive same letters u will only find them in noise-representing words, such as “shhh”. Other than those words, I am uncertain of any words that possess 3 consecutive same letters.

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What is the3rd longest word in the world?

3. pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. Appearing in the Oxford English Dictionary, this 45-letter word for a disease is the longest English word that is defined in a major dictionary. It's a technical word referring to the lung disease more commonly known as silicosis.

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Which English word has all 5 vowels?

EUNOIA is the shortest word in English which has all five vowels.

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What is 3 times in a word?

three times; thrice; threefold.

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What word has 3 letter A?

The 3 Letter Words Starting with A are ant, act, ant, ate, air, ask, arc, art, aid, ago, are, aim, add, etc.

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Is love a 3 letter word?

Love is a three letter word, Not a four letter word.

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What word has 3y?

Syzygy. Amazingly, the only English word with three Ys also happens to describe a rare astronomical event involving three heavenly bodies. A syzygy is the alignment of three celestial bodies in a straight line, commonly the Earth, the sun, and the Moon.

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Is there a 36 letter word?

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (36 letters)

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What is the hardest 3 letter word?

The hardest three-letter hangman words. “Sly” is particularly… well, sly. Running the program, we can see that the hardest three-letter word is “xxv”, which would take 22 guesses (20 of them wrong!) to get.

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What are the 3 B words?

3 letter words that start with B
  • baa.
  • bad.
  • bae.
  • bag.
  • bah.
  • bai.
  • bal.
  • bam.

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Is there a 32 letter word?

Another known long word is konstantynopolitańczykowianeczka (32 letters), "a daughter of a man who lives in Constantinople" and pięćdziesięciogroszówka (23 letters), "a 50 groszy coin".

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How do you spell 3 in English?

We can write numbers in words with the help of English Alphabets. Therefore, you can read 3 as “Three” in English.

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What is 3x a year called?

triannual (not comparable) Happening three times each year.

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What is the word for 3x a year?

Definition of triannual

done, occurring, issued, etc., three times a year. triennial. a triannual publication, contest, etc.

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What is every 3 years called?

tri·​en·​ni·​al (ˌ)trī-ˈe-nē-əl. : occurring or being done every three years. the triennial convention. : consisting of or lasting for three years.

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Which is the shortest word?

The shortest word is a. Some might wonder about the word I since it consists of one letter, too. In sound, a is shorter because it is a monophthong (consists of one vowel), while I is a diphthong. Both do consist of one letter in the English writing system, and in most fonts I is the narrowest letter.

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