English Word with Three Consecutive Double Letters
What English word has three consecutive double letters?
Bookkeeper (or bookkeeping). An alternate, tricky, answer could be Woollen (where W is a “double u”).
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jerrod says
June 30, 2018 @ 21:34
Woolly, adj. – Having a fluffy character or appearance appears to fit PHONETICALLY when spelled “double U, double O double L, Y”
Wayne says
October 12, 2018 @ 20:05
Bookkeeper
Catharine Carpenter says
December 3, 2018 @ 22:29
TATTOOEE is another, and it doesn’t need to have any hyphens removed!
Rebecca says
April 24, 2019 @ 11:03
Balloonning is also correct, right?
Chris C says
May 5, 2019 @ 11:44
Narcoossee, FL
pheelix says
May 15, 2019 @ 22:00
The word “tattooee” is listed at en.wiktionary.org and http://www.yourdictionary.com. It is defined as one who receives a tattoo. A “tattooer” is the one who does the tattoos.
It is the shortest English word with three consecutive double-letters.
xteven tyler says
May 28, 2019 @ 10:29
how about “aggressiveness”,”addressee”, “barrenness”, “Chattahoochee” (a river in northern Georgia), “heedlessness”, “committee”, and the great favourite “Mississippi”, but all this word playing looking for triple letters and triple doubles has led to my “sleeplessness”, but my “stubbornness” drives me ever on either “unsuccessfully” or “successfully” there’s a few triple doubles in that lot and triple letter words belllike crosssection godessship headonessship those are often hyphenated but triple letters none the less.theres lots of sesquipedalian words i adore too . enjoy..
xteven tyler says
May 28, 2019 @ 10:59
my last list i forgot you wanted consecutive triple letters so ok try “Kallooppara” The land of Kallooppara was previously known by the name of Perumbranadu, or Vellooppara is a small village place in the Kollam District of Kerala, but how about SUBBOOKKEEPER theres 4 doubles there , or sweettoothed or is that sweet-toothed hyphenated
Moupran Hazarika says
July 15, 2019 @ 10:31
Mississippi is also correct
Dan says
July 16, 2019 @ 09:26
Nope, it doesn’t have any consecutive double letters (the “i” separates them).
Carol Keem says
November 21, 2019 @ 00:15
Tennessee, Committee, Mississippi,Aggressiveness. I didn’t know that “tattooee” ever existed in the English vocabulary
Dan says
November 21, 2019 @ 07:53
@Carol None of those words have three consecutive double letters.
T says
December 2, 2019 @ 06:35
Tattooee is not actually in the dictionary sadly. Wiki is not a reliable source considering anyone can add or discard things there.
AD says
March 2, 2020 @ 10:53
Tattooee – Not a word
All the other examples are either misspelled (like “balloonning” which is actually ballooning) or not CONSECUTIVE which is what makes bookkeeper unique.
Obviously “Woolen” (with its double U) is a play on words and therefore invalid.
Samprince says
March 13, 2020 @ 15:39
All those tattooee are wronged….
Piglet says
March 23, 2020 @ 06:32
Committee
Lyn Flack says
April 13, 2020 @ 10:34
Not sure where ‘o’ comes before ‘k’ and ‘e’ in the English alphabet if the question is asking for consecutive double letters?
Dan says
April 14, 2020 @ 08:34
@Lyn Not sure why you are talking about the alphabet. Are you confusing consecutive with alphabetical?
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