What do you think of a word like committee? So many double letters. How do these words come about? There are common words that have these repetitions. Here are a few: addressee sweettooth aggressiveness barrenness cheerlessness greenness heedlessness keenness possessiveness rottenness sleeplessness whippoorwill
I found the all-time extensive list HERE - formal names, regular words, referencing places and languages from around the globe. This list seems strange. For example, the very first word is Aallaakh - it is a town in Russia. And then the dialectic Norwegian word "aassaa" - couldn't that be a girl's name and the boy would be named Otto.
I find the words hard to read and understand - it is quite the challenge with all those double letters.
Somehow, word dictionaries thin there is only one word with four consecutive double letters - subbookkeeper. I don't buy that there is such a word as this - an assistant is an assistant. But it is fun to type.
The supposed words with four consecutive double letters includes these:
AARRGGHH exclamation of extreme frustration. [‘Urban Dictionary’ (Net)] Shorter forms ‘aarrgh’ and ‘aarrghh’ are allowed in Scrabble. BELLEEKKEEPER someone in charge of a Belleek porcelain collection. (C) BOOTTOOLLESS lacking a BOOTTOOL. (C) COUNTERROOMMOOD acting against the ROOMMOOD. (C) DOUAR LAASSAASSA town in Morocco. (Geo) FISHHOOKKEEPER = HOOKKEEPER. (C)
There are supposed Fives as well:
BABOONNOOKKEEPER zoo worker in charge of the baboon enclosure. (C) BEERROOMMEET meeting in the BEERROOM bar. (C) BOOBBOOKKEEPER an incompetent bookkeeper; person in charge of the BOOBBOOK network. (C) FLOODDOORROOM room with a FLOODDOOR. (C)
You can see what I mean. The list extends to sixes and finishes with sevens. Here are the Sevens words: i have dopy and pasted these - I am not typing them out given spellcheck's aggressiveness:
FLOODDOORROOMMEET meeting in a FLOODDOORROOM. (C) MOONNOONNOOKKEEPER one who keeps house in a nook on the moon at noon. (Language on Vacation, D Borgmann, 1965) WOOLLOOMMOOLLOO early spelling of WOOLLOOMOOLOO used twice in Description of a View of the Town of Sydney, New South Wales, by Robert Burford, 1829. (Net)
All I can say is poor folk who live in New South Wales - those would be big road signs.
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