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Are there any words with the same letter repeated three times in a row.?

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  • Sarah
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    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...
  • 1 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).

  • Jman
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    No. That would be incorrect in the English language.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    lol, there's a user in YA called Vsssarma if that helps.

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  • 1 decade ago

    other than kashyyyk from star wars, i got nothing

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    "There are not enough o's to make this smooth" Col Potter

  • 1 decade ago

    no....

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