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Old 14 November 2006, 04:27 PM
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Question An 8 Character Word that only uses 3 different letters

Get the grey matter working this afternoon.

What is it (or are there words out there longer than 8 characters using only 3 different letters) ?
Old 14 November 2006, 04:46 PM
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Bit of a tough one!
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Old 14 November 2006, 04:46 PM
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I will get the answer!
Old 14 November 2006, 04:49 PM
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Like Mississippi only uses 4?
Old 14 November 2006, 04:51 PM
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bananana these are slighly bigger then a Banana
Old 14 November 2006, 04:53 PM
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zooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooom

Old 14 November 2006, 04:53 PM
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9 letters - Seeresses
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8 letters - Greegree
Old 14 November 2006, 04:55 PM
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Originally Posted by davyboy
8 letters - Greegree
Old 14 November 2006, 04:58 PM
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an African amulet
Old 14 November 2006, 04:59 PM
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Its a "normalish" word.

Keep guessing

I stumbled across it as I was putting in a status for an action.

That's a clue
Old 14 November 2006, 05:03 PM
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ummmmm
Old 14 November 2006, 05:03 PM
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If you are using a dictionary that has the word "normalish", then I'm dropping out of this one thanks
Old 14 November 2006, 05:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Brendan Hughes
If you are using a dictionary that has the word "normalish", then I'm dropping out of this one thanks
Come on Brendan - this one's right up your street.

Think about actions you'd rather not do any time soon .
Old 14 November 2006, 05:06 PM
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wanking has loads!!
Old 14 November 2006, 05:11 PM
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Two of the letters are d and e.
Old 14 November 2006, 05:14 PM
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Phwooooooaaarrrrrrr (oopssssssss thatssssssss nnnnnnnnot riiiiiiiiight)

Damn stutter
Old 14 November 2006, 05:17 PM
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deseeded
Old 14 November 2006, 05:18 PM
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Word Matcher
Old 14 November 2006, 05:18 PM
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And F.
Old 14 November 2006, 05:19 PM
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a-deaded? (Does the hyphen count as a character? And am I allowed the Deep South mannerism?)
Old 14 November 2006, 05:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Brendan Hughes
a-deaded? (Does the hyphen count as a character? And am I allowed the Deep South mannerism?)
I shall have to defer judgement on that til the morning
Old 14 November 2006, 05:30 PM
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deferred

bugger that's 4

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Old 14 November 2006, 06:35 PM
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According to my link there is no 8 letter word with just D,E and F in??
Old 14 November 2006, 06:37 PM
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Referrer.
Old 14 November 2006, 06:44 PM
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No good Maz, he said the three letters were D,E,F
Old 14 November 2006, 06:57 PM
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I can only find defeeded, and that is used by folks who can't spell defeated
Old 14 November 2006, 07:08 PM
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deferrer
Old 14 November 2006, 07:13 PM
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OK, now count the number of letters in Deferrer

1) D
2) E
3) F
4) R

Old 14 November 2006, 07:39 PM
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Deseeded I win


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