What 8 letter word has 3 sets of double letters?
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.
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.
The original article sought to find examples of words with two double letters (but ignoring the very difficult combinations JJ, QQ, VV and XX)words such as dumbbell (double B and double L), buccaneer (double C and double E) and razzmatazz (two occurrences of double Z).
The only word in the English language with three consecutive double letters is "bookkeeper." You know about bookkeeping and related words (including casebookkeeper, scrapbookkeeper, sketchbookkeeper), including the winner of the prize in the category of ordinary words: subbookkeeper.
PS: "Bookkeeper" , "bookkeeping" and "sweet-toothed" have three consecutive sets of double letters.
- addressee. one to whom something is sent.
- aggressiveness. a feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack.
- barrenness. the quality of yielding nothing of value.
- bookkeeper. someone who records the transactions of a business.
- Chattahoochee. ...
- cheerlessness. ...
- committee. ...
- greenness.
They all appear in at least one English dictionary, but usually as an old spelling or rare variant: AAADONTA, FLYING JIBBBOOM, PEEENT, FREEER, FREEEST, ISHIII, FRILLLESS, WALLLESS, LAPAROHYSTEROSALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY, BRRR, GODDESSSHIP, COUNTESSSHIP, duch*eSSSHIP, GOVERNESSSHIP, HOSTESSSHIP, VERTUUUS, UUULA, and YAYYY.
- Silent K – know, knee, knife.
- Silent H – honor, heir, honest.
- Silent P- psychology, psalm, receipt.
- Silent B -lamb, debt, subtle.
- Silent L- talk, should, salmon.
- Silent S- debris, aisle, island.
- Silent T- ballet, buffet, listen.
- Silent W- write, answer, sword.
A play that covers two DWS is doubled then re-doubled (i.e. the score for the word is 4 times its face value) and is sometimes referred to as a "double-double." Similarly, a play covering two TWS is tripled then re-tripled ("triple-triple.").
Step-by-step explanation: Ballons is your answer because it is 7 letter word and also it has 2 double letters I.e ll , it can fly also like bird or plane . and kids love it .
What is the longest word with 15 letters?
The longest examples are uncopyrightable and subdermatoglyphic. An uncopyrightable song, for example, would not be eligible for copyright. This word has fifteen letters, but one other word without repeated letters is longer—subdermatoglyphic.
| Word | Letters |
|---|---|
| methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylalanyl...isoleucine | 189,819 |
| methionylglutaminylarginyltyrosylglutamyl...serine | 1,909 |
| lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsano...pterygon | 183 |
| pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis | 45 |
7. Subdermatoglyphic. At 17 characters, this is often considered the longest isogram, a word in which every letter is used only once, and refers to the underlying dermal matrix that determines the pattern formed by the whorls, arches, and ridges of our fingerprints.
Euouae, at six letters long, is the longest English word consisting only of vowels, and, also, the word with the most consecutive vowels. Words with five consecutive vowels include cooeeing and queueing.
#SentenceFact: 'Queueing' is the only word with five consecutive vowels (five vowels in a row).
Literary or poetic alliteration is often described as the repetition of identical initial consonant sounds in successive or closely associated syllables within a group of words.
- The most frequent double-letter combinations are ee, ll, ss, oo, tt,ff, rr, nn, pp, and cc.
- The double letters that occur most commonly at the end of words are ee, ll, ss, and ff.
Strengths, at nine letters long, is the longest word in the English language with only one vowel.
Double consonants are frequently found in words that have a suffix added to them. I dropped the heavy bags to the floor. Even though there's only one syllable “dropt,” the word is written as if it had two syllables. When adding certain endings such as -ed, -ing, -er, and -est to words, we sometimes double consonants.
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word entered in the most trusted English dictionaries.
What's a word that has all the letters in the alphabet?
Pangrams are words or sentences containing every letter of the alphabet at least once; the best known English example being A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog . As well as containing some rather amusing gems, the pangrams in languages other than English can be occasionally useful for designers of all sorts.
| Order Of Frequency Of Single Letters | E T A O I N S H R D L U |
|---|---|
| Most Frequent Three-Letter Words | the, and, for, are, but, not, you, all, any, can, had, her, was, one, our, out, day, get, has, him, his, how, man, new, now, old, see, two, way, who, boy, did, its, let, put, say, she, too, use |
The word "zebra" has a silent letter 'Z'.
But as Merriam-Webster Dictionary points out, one unusual letter is never silent: the letter V.
The word ' thumb ' has a silent letter, that is to say the letter, ' b. ' In the case of other words, its pronunciation will be affected if any other letter is removed, making the word sound different.
