Learn English – Is “princessship” a real word? Are there any other words which have the same letter 3 times consecutively

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One of my friends argues that princessship is the only word which has 3 identical letter comes together (s) ,but I think there is no word such as princessship.

Can anyone tell me whether this is a real word, and if there are any more English words which have 3 letters consecutively?

Best Answer

There is no word with three consecutive letters under the most narrow definition of "real word", but there are several words of the following types:

  1. There are many acronyms/initialisms that contain triple letters, like AAA, AIEEE, KKK, WWW, or Roman numerals like xviii.

  2. There are place names, like

    • Kaaawa, a place in Hawaii.
    • Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, a place in Wales.

  3. There are names of people with all sorts of unconventional spellings, like Minnnie, Annnora, or Diannne.

  4. There are interjections like mmm, hmmm, zzz, etc.

  5. There are archaic/poetic words with elided letters, like whenceeer (really, whencee'er from whenceever), wheree'er, etc.

  6. Finally, there are words which would probably be written with a hyphen whenever used, like frillless (mentioned by Dusty) which is really frill-less, similarly bulllike, gulllike, wallless, many words ending in -ss-ship like your princessship, bossship, goddessship, headmistressship, patronessship.

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