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Are there any words with the same letter repeated three times in a row.?
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- SarahLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
Actually a number of English words have three of the same letter in sequence. The Oxford English Dictionary contains several:
Aaadonta - A type of snail. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaadonta
Cavaticovelia aaa (a Hawaiian water bug) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavaticovelia_aaa
Goddessship
Headmistressship
Willless
Bulllike
Frillless
Offfall
You can even have "offfalllike" and there's the archaic "agreeeth" (third person singular present tense of the verb to agree). The word "tweeer" (comparative adjective of the qualifier twee meaning infantilely kitsch) and even things like "cryptooology" (if "cryptozoology" is the study of hidden animals and "oology" is the study of eggs then "cryptooology" would be the study of hidden eggs).
There are also many possessives ending in ss's such as in the word "actress's".
Not forgetting place names such "Rossshire" and "Invernessshire" (both in Scotland), The Welsh town "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrob
wllllantysiliogogogoch" which contains the letter l four times in a row (though technically 2 Welsh digraph in a row) and "Kaʻaʻawa" in Hawaii.
And none of this is even taking into account the numerous words that contain 3 letters in a row which can be hyphenated!
Source(s): English Language and Linguistics student. I'm not making any of it up lol. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_words_with_un... - TrapezoidLv 61 decade ago
There are hyphenated terms like cross-section and off-flavor, but as for being a single word, I'm not positive of any (that exist in modern standard English anyway).
- Anonymous1 decade ago
lol, there's a user in YA called Vsssarma if that helps.
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
"There are not enough o's to make this smooth" Col Potter