Two Letters!
Language brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
Which is the only word in the English language to be comprised of two letters, each used three times?
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redraptor50   
Dec 29, 2005
|  thought it was something else.........alas brainster you did it again ti me  BUT.......I will be watching  |
brainster 
Dec 29, 2005
| sure redraptor, anytime! |
WJSMama
Dec 29, 2005
| great one! u got me |
iamawesome
Dec 30, 2005
| this one was good...i would have never guessed...  |
Rowsdower
Jan 10, 2006
| Nice teaser, I went through about 403,212 words of my vocabulary before I just had to peek at the answer. It was like: 'Of' Nope. 'Off' Nope. and so on...  |
Brainy_1
Jan 10, 2006
| Good one!  And I learned something new!!  |
brainster
Jan 12, 2006
| Thanks guys, glad you all liked it! |
GebbieRose
Aug 21, 2006
| That's a toughie! |
utnative
Aug 21, 2006
| i'm glad to see that i was the only one that it was hard. a great teaser, makes you think, sorry my brain is still on vacation   |
utnative
Aug 21, 2006
| i meant to say i was not the only one sorry |
bluehawk
Aug 21, 2006
| You stumped me brainster, yet again!
Good one. Keep them coming.
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rajeshvt
Aug 21, 2006
| I was trying to use two & three , failed miserably
good one |
lmurray  
Aug 21, 2006
| I'M SURPRISED SO FEW PEOPLE DIDN'T KNOW THE ANSWER. WE LEARNED THAT IN ENGLISH CLASS. |
OldChinaHand
Aug 21, 2006
| Hummm, a real thinker...the a.m. shift might need that extra cup of joe for this one. And there no failure or discredit for missing this one. It's may seem simple but... A Good One. |
Badger
Aug 21, 2006
| And just when I had my daily streak going again! Hadn't missed since Pac-Man ate me up 8 teasers ago. Great Job! |
Badger
Aug 21, 2006
| Oh, and the Chimera beast before that (another Brainster one) Thanks Brainster!  |
bradon182001
Aug 21, 2006
| Got me, too. Must be I was sleeping in English class the day they taught that.  |
shawneeo
Aug 21, 2006
| I no get it! I mean, I get it, but I didnt GET the answer.
I went through the vowels, becoz there would have to be a vowel, with every letter, "ababab, acacac, cacaca, dada, addad", but, deeded just didn't occur to me when I did the "eb, ec, eded, efeef", altho, at the end, I did kinda start to think that there would probably be a double vowel, which would narrow it down to "ee, oo", but, for all my wonderful organized thinking, I still didn't GET IT! And, like the other person here, I don't think I ever would have guessed it unless I wrote every possible combination down. Then maybe after 2000 combination, maybe, maybe...
Thanks for the great teaser! |
iet2004
Aug 21, 2006
| Does the fact that I wasn't even sure "deeded" was a real word mean that I have to relinquish my Braingle membership? |
Pizzazz2u
Aug 21, 2006
| This is a very outstanding teaser, although I came up with the answer right away  My mind was in gear, this morning. This does get you to test ALL possibilities. Thank you, Brain! |
locutus13ds
Aug 21, 2006
| I don't feel so bad about not getting it.  |
iteachkids
Aug 21, 2006
| Fun one, Brainster! I didn't have the time to try like some of the overachievers here ... SHAWNEEO! I plan to use this as a teaser when I'm at camp this week! |
cherokeerose
Aug 21, 2006
| I did not get it but it was cool to see the answer.... |
FeaerFactorY666
Aug 21, 2006
| Very nice! |
composer
Aug 21, 2006
| I wasn't even sure "deeded" was a real word either, so I looked it up. It does not exist in the Oxford Dictionary © 1998, but it is in the American Heritage Dictionary © 1978. |
kman613
Aug 21, 2006
| Wow! That was a tough one! Couldn't get it, but had fun trying to figure it out. Keep em' coming! |
brainster
Aug 21, 2006
| Thanks all! And I see lmurray is back in style! *shrugs crazy commenting person off her mind* |
heyman
Aug 21, 2006
| Great choice! |
largo40
Aug 21, 2006
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Just a real puzzle. Great job!!!
Enjoyed thinking about it but sure came no where near solving it. |
blondebookworm
Aug 21, 2006
| way clever. I had no idea what it was. |
Wingsfan
Aug 21, 2006
| Good one!! |
jenny_lee
Aug 21, 2006
| Great teaser! |
coachpisco
Aug 21, 2006
| Man, how did you come up with that one????? |
bennal
Aug 21, 2006
| La-la-la. |
jabdr
Aug 21, 2006
| NBen...I kept coming back to lalala too! Great teaser. Worked and worked and still didn't get it. Thanks, Brainster. |
vlerma
Aug 21, 2006
| That's why she's the Brainster.
Made me feel dumb since I am a licensed assessor - should know something about deeds. Like the old assessor's joke - how high is an awning? Give up? It's just a shade above the ground. Thanks Brainster, keep them coming. |
RRAMMOHAN
Aug 22, 2006
| Great teaser! Though the use of the word 'deeded' is uncommon in my country, I could still get it after some effort. I WAS excited! Thanks . Would like to see more such teasers! |
Qrystal
Sep 15, 2006
| I was just too curious about the answer to keep looking for it myself. I'm glad I gave up quickly .... it could've potentially bothered me all day, but instead I get to move on to another teaser before my coffee is finished.
Good morning! |
MalcolmReynolds
Nov 21, 2006
| No, no you are wrong. Clearly the only reasonable answer is "nanana!" |
SPUTNIK2
May 29, 2007
| woould keeper have worked? I looked up needed, I guess theres no such word..ya got me! |
SPUTNIK2
May 29, 2007
| I get it now brainster, that was really a tough one once I really understood the teaser, GOOD ONE! |
leftclick
Aug 22, 2009
| Please prove that this is the *only* such word. |
doehead
Aug 22, 2009
| HAHAHA |
patiencewithaP
Aug 22, 2009
| Good one! I never would've gotten it...thanks for posting! |
auntiesis
Aug 22, 2009
| the closest I came was to banana, unfortunately it had 3 letters. Deeded eluded me as it did so many others. |
UptheHill
Aug 22, 2009
| Laugh it up, Doehead!!! |
unctarheel
Aug 22, 2009
| i got it |
brainster
Aug 23, 2009
| Thanks for the comments all! The only way I could think of proving this leftclick, was to use an online anagram solver. It didn't give me any other option except the word "deeded"! |
avonma
Aug 24, 2009
| Very good!
I kept thinking of words with repeated letters, but there was always a THIRD letter lurking in there! I just couldn't come up with only two different letters! I kept thinking of Mississippi, banana, rococo, Bimini until I just got lost in all the letters. Never even thought of a word with "e's" - That is really bad - with all the "e's" in words!
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plus2
Sep 19, 2009
| @composer
I've never even heard anyone use the word before, so.... XD
nice teaser, by the way |
Babe
Aug 23, 2012
| This would take way too much time to figure out so I did not even try, but you all liked it so that makes it a good teaser. |
quads84
Aug 23, 2012
| I definitely didn't get this one. It was a real thinker!! Unfortunately, I couldn't get past "cocoon.....No. It ends with an 'n'...........cocoon....No....."
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jaycr
Aug 23, 2012
| A tough one, yes in deed. |
katamaster
Aug 23, 2012
| Would dedeeded by a word? To remove a deed from somebody. That would be something. |
braniannd
Aug 28, 2012
| I guessed hahaha |
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