The premise itself is wrong. There are more than three such words. aggry - a glass bead found buried in the earth in Ghana. puggry - a light scarf wound around a hat or helmet to protect the head from the sun meagry - of meager appearance. mawgry - being regarded with displeasure. Of course, if you meant to post this as the famous trick question, you've worded it improperly: "Think of words ending in -gry. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everybody uses everyday. If you have listened carefully , I've already told you what it is" If this is the case, then the answer is "language", because it is the third word in "the English language".

This 'riddle' has been circulating in email for years now, in various forms of words, and had appeared in print media before that. Dictionary and reference departments the world over have been plagued by questions about it. It seems to have originated as a trick question, but the wording has become so garbled in subsequent transmission that it is hard to tell what was originally intended. The most probable answer is that, in the original wording, the question was phrased something like this: Think of words ending in -gry. 'Angry' and 'hungry' are two of them. What is the third word in the English language? You use it every day, and if you were listening carefully, I've just told you what it is. The answer, of course, is 'language' (the third word in 'the English language'). There are several other English words ending in -gry which are listed in the complete Oxford English Dictionary, but none of them could be described as common. They include the trivial oddities un-angry and a-hungry, and aggry: aggry beads, according to various 19th-century writers, are coloured glass beads found buried in the ground in parts of Africa. begry: a 15th-century spelling of beggary. conyngry: a 17th-century spelling of the obsolete word conynger, meaning 'rabbit warren', which survives in old English field names such as 'Conery' and 'Coneygar'. gry: the name for a hundredth of an inch in a long-forgotten decimal system of measurement devised by the philosopher John Locke (and presumably pronounced to rhyme with 'cry'). higry-pigry: an 18th-century rendition of the drug hiera picra. iggry: an old army slang word meaning 'hurry up', borrowed from Arabic. meagry: a rare obsolete word meaning 'meagre-looking'. menagry: an 18th-century spelling of menagerie. nangry: a rare 17th-century spelling of angry. podagry: a 17th-century spelling of podagra, a medical term for gout. puggry: a 19th-century spelling of the Hindi word pagri (in English usually puggaree or puggree), referring either to a turban or to a piece of cloth worn around a sun-helmet. skugry: 16th-century spelling of the dialect word scuggery meaning 'secrecy' (the faint echo of 'skulduggery' is quite accidental!). http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutwords/gry?view=uk

There is no 3rd word ending in ....gry. This is an old riddle. Go here for more info: http://www.fun-with-words.com/word_gry_angry_hungry.html

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How's about Viagry?

The way I'd heard it was on the radio as: "There are three words in the English language that end in g, r, y. There's hungry and angry. If you've been listening rather carefully, you already know the answer." And the answer was in the last letters of three of the words in the question. "If you've been listeninG ratheR carefullY ..."

The -Gry Puzzle is a popular puzzle that asks for the third English word, other than "angry" and "hungry," that ends with the letters "gry." Aside from words derived from "angry" and "hungry," there is no stand-alone word ending in "gry" that is in current usage. Both Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (Merriam-Webster, Inc., 2002, ISBN 0-87779-201-1) and the Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition (Oxford University Press, 1989, ISBN 0-19-861186-2) contain the compound word "aggry bead." To find a third word ending in -gry that is not part of a phrase, you must turn to archaic, obsolete, or uncommon words, or personal or place names, a comprehensive list of which is given at the end of this article. This puzzle has no good answer, yet it has become the most frequently asked word puzzle.

It's GRY, meaning one tenth of a line.

There's a similar riddle that goes "I hope you won't deny this fact, but there is only one word in English that ends in e-n-y. What is it?" That always bothered me, because not only do they hand you the answer ('deny'), they're wrong. They seem to have forgotten the word "progeny", meaning offspring. I wouldn't be surprised if there were more.

The third word is "what". You said so yourself - you said, "What is the third word?" It's an old riddle, LOL. I didn't figure it out on my own.

You said There are only three words in "the English language". The third word in that group of three is "language".

oh, close. but, no cigar.

the winner is MagentaStudios! oh, i forgot to mention by stupid computer won't let me post comments. so i have to post comments as answers. when life hands you lemons make beef stew.

This is a riddle which has many outcomes, Hundreds in fact. see http://www.fun-with-words.com/word_gry_angry_hungry.html but it still got me thinking. Great fun

language.

trick question... there are many words that end in gry in the english language but none are common example: gry, puggry and aggry

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Asked and answered at http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/16733

Boring, trivial, able to be solved with Google.

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Aww, your riddle got cut off.

This riddle has been asked hundreds of times, and usually correctly. This is an exception. The word in the phrase "the English language" that people use every day is "language." Unless you go to archaic or obsolete words, there are no other words that end in -gry in English.

Language :)

The third word in "the English language" is "language."

hungry angry Can't remember the third.

there are only two

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, five words in the English language end in -gry. In addition to the common angry and hungry: aggry, a glass bead found buried in the earth in Ghana. puggry, a light scarf wound around a hat or helmet to protect the head from the sun, and meagry, of meager appearance. http://www.ipl.org/div/farq/gryFARQ.html

Hungry Angry The third which I cannot remember is obsolete "gry"