Are there any English words containing the same letter three times in a row?
by 
Mary Siever
ANSWERS: 3
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The usual rules of English spelling outlaw triple letters. Hyphens are inserted into words such as bee-eater, bell-like, chaff-flower, cretaceo-oolitic, cross-section, egg-glass, joss-stick, off-flavour, hostess-ship, puff-fish, toll-lodge, and zoo-organic. A person who flees is a fleer, and a person who sees is a seer (though to avoid confusion with seer meaning `foreteller', the forms see-er and seeër have been used). Nevertheless, we have encountered curious forms such as crosssection, and the complete Oxford English Dictionary does contain instances of frillless, bossship, countessship, duchessship, governessship, and princessship, and the county name Rossshire. Graphic representations of noises, such as brrr, shhh, and zzz, do not really count as proper words. The only other word with a triple letter is the invented word Amerikkkan, which is intended to symbolize the racist aspect of American society by including the initials of the Ku Klux Klan.
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Only two. Shelllike is one (may I have a word in your shelllike?) and tooold is the second (aren't you tooold to be making a complaint?).
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Doesn't answer your question, but I like the word syzygy...three y's...pretty cool.
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