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Name two English words that possess five occurrences of the letter “s”.
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I assume you don't mean something like George and Harry?
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How about: assesses
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Mississippi's?
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Mississippi's?
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How about 6 s's...
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Senselessness
....and just found one with 7 s's...
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ChrisGreaves wrote:Name two English words that possess five occurrences of the letter “s”.
Is it too late for me to post the answer? :scratch:
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You're not satisfied with the solutions provided?
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I rather liked
POSSESSIONLESSNESSES (9 s's)
and
STRESSLESSNESSES (8 s's).
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Nasty! :bow:

(Can those actually be pluralized?)

EDIT: I can't even beat 9 with:

Supercalifragilisticexpialidociouslessness :drop:
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And words that don't contain an "s" suffer from multiple S-POSSESSIONLESSNESSES :groan:
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Rudi wrote:Nasty! :bow:

(Can those actually be pluralized?)

EDIT: I can't even beat 9 with:

Supercalifragilisticexpialidociouslessness :drop:
I would agree that these words push the bounds of intelligibility.
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HansV wrote:You're not satisfied with the solutions provided?
I'm speechless (3)! :flee:
I came across "possessions" and the like and was curious.
Once we get to 10-esses i think we should stop and leave something for the youngsters coming along behind us ...
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