This is going to make you so MAD! There are three words in the English language that end in "gry". ONE is an

Language!!!

You will have realized by now that it's all a linguistic trick and the the third word in 'the English language' is of course 'language'. Just for completeness we ought to add that there are several other words that end in 'gry', not least 'gry' itself, although that does spoil the puzzle rather: Gry (noun) - The smallest unit in Locke's proposed decimal system of linear measurement, being the tenth of a line, the hundredth of an inch, and the thousandth of a (‘philosophical’) foot. For example, from 1679 John Locke's 'Letters to Boyle', 1679: "The longest ... was three inches and nine grys long, and one inch seven lines in girt." Gry (verb) - To rage or roar. For example, from Richard Crew's 'Tasso's Godfrey of Bulloigne', 1594: "The hearing this doth force the Tyrant gry, With threatfull sound." So, now you can give up the search and move on to more useful pastimes.

The third word in "the English Language" is "language."

Angry,Hungry,buggry

its not energy, because the order is specified at the very end, where the asker goes ____gry? --- so it HAS to be a word that ends in gry or the asker asked the question wrong and made a fool of themselves.

You are told wrong! There isn't one!

This 'riddle' has been circulating in email for years now, in various forms of words, and had appeared in print media before that. Dictionary and reference departments the world over have been plagued by questions about it. It seems to have originated as a trick question, but the wording has become so garbled in subsequent transmission that it is hard to tell what was originally intended.

The most probable answer is that, in the original wording, the question was phrased something like this:

Think of words ending in -gry. 'Angry' and 'hungry' are two of them. What is the third word in the English language? You use it every day, and if you were listening carefully, I've just told you what it is.

The answer, of course, is 'language' (the third word in 'the English language').

There are several other English words ending in -gry which are listed in the complete Oxford English Dictionary, but none of them could be described as common. They include the trivial oddities un-angry and a-hungry, and

aggry: aggry beads, according to various 19th-century writers, are coloured glass beads found buried in the ground in parts of Africa.

begry: a 15th-century spelling of beggary.

conyngry: a 17th-century spelling of the obsolete word conynger, meaning 'rabbit warren', which survives in old English field names such as 'Conery' and 'Coneygar'.

gry: the name for a hundredth of an inch in a long-forgotten decimal system of measurement devised by the philosopher John Locke (and presumably pronounced to rhyme with 'cry').

higry-pigry: an 18th-century rendition of the drug hiera picra.

iggry: an old army slang word meaning 'hurry up', borrowed from Arabic.

meagry: a rare obsolete word meaning 'meagre-looking'.

menagry: an 18th-century spelling of menagerie.

nangry: a rare 17th-century spelling of angry.

podagry: a 17th-century spelling of podagra, a medical term for gout.

puggry: a 19th-century spelling of the Hindi word pagri (in English usually puggaree or puggree), referring either to a turban or to a piece of cloth worn around a sun-helmet.

skugry: 16th-century spelling of the dialect word scuggery meaning 'secrecy' (the faint echo of 'skulduggery' is quite accidental!).

This is the (presumed) original version of the puzzle from 1975. The possible answers (if obsolete words, names, and hyphenated compounds of "angry" and "hungry" are allowed) are plentiful. Most of the 124 listed below were in the 1933 edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, and all have appeared in some major dictionary of English:

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The third word is language.

-Any set or system of such symbols as used in a more or less uniform fashion by a number of people, who are thus enabled to communicate intelligibly with one another.

language

OR:

aggry

Applied to a kind of variegated glass beads of ancient manufacture

ahungry

A Shakespearean variant of "hungry"

angry

Feeling or showing anger; incensed or enraged

hungry

Experiencing a desire or need for food.

puggry

A light scarf wound around a hat or helmet to protect the head from the sun [in India

What makes ME so mad is the number of times this same question has been posted!!