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Q: What's a common English word that has three consecutive sets of double letters?
10 years 40 weeks ago in Teaching & Learning - China
"Subbookkeeper" is the only word found in an English language dictionary with four pairs of double letters in a row.
mississippi
JayKnox:
That was a good answer and I think the one he's looking for but I'd quibble with that question: 'Mississippi' is a common place name for (North) Americans (or fans of Blues music) but maybe not 'English Speakers' in general,
and,
Google says I'm right that its a Native American word (actually its says a French version) of Ojibwa (meaning 'Big River' in English)
99Silva:
yeah and the question was consecutive sets...mississippi does not even have consecutie sets of double letters. The i throws that way off.
The words bookkeeper or bookkeeping does. You have the double o's the double k's and the double e's. 
TedDBayer:
yeah and the question was consecutive sets...I was thinking Sssiiilllvvvaaa sss******xxx.
Sweettooth will be the only other one not already mentioned, besides bookkeepper or bookkeeping. That got me an A+ in high school, and I still remember the answer.
helloooo - this word is very common. I hear many times every day!
"Subbookkeeper" is the only word found in an English language dictionary with four pairs of double letters in a row.
