Are there words in English that have three of the same letter in a row?

Answer 1

Ever heard of onomatopeia ??????

Maybe not. But once I explain it, you will recognize what the word stands for:)

And why, do you ask, does this strange word have anything to do with words that have 3 consecutive

letters????

Ever listen to a radiator giving off steam??

Ever taste something so totally yummy???

Ever get stuck in a pile of frozen snow????

What does the steam from a radiator sound like ???? If you were to mimic the sound it would be hzzzz

A hissing sound- it has 3 letters in a row

When something tastes yummy what sound do you make? Is it hmmm?

A sound that when you do it you know something is yummy

When you get stuck in something really cold what sound do you make??

Is it brrr ?

So the bottom line here is although the rules of English grammar don't accept 3-letter words,

if we use the device onomatopoeia, which means imitation of a sound, we can find 3-letter words

Go ahead- now you try it- a sound for silence??

Answer 2

English does not allow three letters in a row. When there are three letters in a row in a word it will be hyphenated. As an example bee-eater is a noun and a name of some sort of animal or insect most likely that eats bees. Normally a noun like this would be a single word spelled contiguously but because three "e's" occur in a row this noun becomes a hyphenated word.