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Question: f-f-freezing doesn't count

Pants! — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:24:42 -0800

Tariff: Are there any other words in English that include two Fs next to each other?

By: wenestvedt

wenestvedt — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:30:10 -0800

offal

By: zippy

zippy — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:30:26 -0800

truffle

By: bink

bink — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:30:29 -0800

Traffic, giraffe, iffy, ruffle...there are zillions of them. Ending with ff? Off. Naff. Starting with ff is tougher, but Irish names like ffrench and ffolkes are out there.

By: Sticherbeast

Sticherbeast — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:30:57 -0800

Traffic. Coffee.

By: rentalkarma

rentalkarma — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:32:20 -0800

Sheriff

By: fiercecupcake

fiercecupcake — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:33:36 -0800

Taffy.

By: randomination

randomination — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:33:47 -0800

I eat toffee in the office -- I'm affluent, because I won an official raffle.

Really, there are lots of these, aren't there?

By: skynxnex

skynxnex — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:34:00 -0800

There are a lot, here's a pastbin dump of running grep ff linux.words (that is, on the Unix word dictionary). There are some effective duplicates (it has both affair and affairs for example), and some are names, but it's a pretty decent list nonetheless.

By: Pater Aletheias

Pater Aletheias — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:34:05 -0800

I'm baffled by this question. Off to quaff some beer.

By: Penelope

Penelope — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:34:18 -0800

Offer, proffer.

By: fiercecupcake

fiercecupcake — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:34:50 -0800

Gaffe? The Great Taffy Gaffe of Ought-Eight?

By: roger ackroyd

roger ackroyd — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:34:50 -0800

You can generate a complete list of words on OneLook with the search term *ff*. Narrowing the search to "Common Words" is probably more useful.

By: cgg

cgg — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:35:46 -0800

The obvious - off?

By: Mach5

Mach5 — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:39:35 -0800

Your search for *ff* matched 1670 words in this word list

By: DWRoelands

DWRoelands — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:39:46 -0800

offend
offensive
efficient
efficiency
affable

So, you know, squillions. :)

By: piedmont

piedmont — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:40:24 -0800

Someone not have enough caffeine this morning?

By: box

box — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:41:33 -0800

This question mad me a little huffy, but the feeling went away in a jiff. And then I went away in a skiff to smoke a spiffy spliff.

By: Citrus

Citrus — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:42:40 -0800

I wonder if maybe someone hasn't put in that much effort thinking about it. :)

By: box

box — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:43:07 -0800

'Made,' not 'mad,' but what's the difference?

By: ormondsacker

ormondsacker — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:46:04 -0800

Are there any other words in English that include two Fs next to each other?

Affirmative.

By: pixlboi

pixlboi — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:51:50 -0800

What a strange kerfuffle over words.

By: ludwig_van

ludwig_van — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:55:17 -0800

Skiffle, piffle, sniffle.

By: chan.caro

chan.caro — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:56:52 -0800

Quaff, stiff, ruffle...

By: trip and a half

trip and a half — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:57:12 -0800

"iff" itself is a playable word in Scrabble. It means "if and only if".

By: millipede

millipede — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:57:21 -0800

mastiff.

By: zamboni

zamboni — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:58:12 -0800

$ grep ff /usr/share/dict/words | wc -l

    1734

At least 1733 others.

By: Johnny Assay

Johnny Assay — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:00:48 -0800

For more unusual double letters, check out this page (it's long, so do a "Find in Page" for "double letters".) Examples of more uncommon ones are bathhouse, hajj, vacuum, savvy, glowworm, and piyyut.

By: trip and a half

trip and a half — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:01:42 -0800

bookkeeper

By: cmiller

cmiller — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:10:50 -0800

$ grep ff /usr/share/dict/american-english |wc -l
972

http://pastebin.com/f16535c0e

By: weapons-grade pandemonium

weapons-grade pandemonium — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:11:39 -0800

WTFF? There are about 3800 of them.

By: weapons-grade pandemonium

weapons-grade pandemonium — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:13:47 -0800

Well, that's including compound phrases.

By: lester

lester — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:16:12 -0800

personally i think this question is chaff filter.

By: BobbyDigital

BobbyDigital — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:16:33 -0800

Coffee.

Good use of your question.

By: electroboy

electroboy — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:28:26 -0800

Duff, doff and toff.

By: gingerbeer

gingerbeer — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:30:36 -0800

FFS, people!

By: dizziest

dizziest — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:30:58 -0800

Though the question's long been thoroughly answered, I can't resist: effect/affect.

Related to Johnny Assay's answer above, there's a store near my house called Saavy, which was clearly meant to be called Savvy. It makes me crazy.

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:37:39 -0800

I don't know if you'll be miffed or chuffed when I say this question should be snuffed.

By: Thorzdad

Thorzdad — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:50:17 -0800

Enough words to make it worth the time and effort of ye olde type setters cut ff ligatures.

By: numinous

numinous — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:51:29 -0800

Bailiff. Plaintiff. Etcff.

By: leotrotsky

leotrotsky — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:01:37 -0800

Suffolk

By: oneironaut

oneironaut — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:03:57 -0800

Pfft.

By: Memo

Memo — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:04:01 -0800

Tiffany.

By: craven_morhead

craven_morhead — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:14:51 -0800

this is an effing easy question.

By: mce

mce — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:31:12 -0800

On the topic of other letter combinations - a little scripting and /usr/share/dict/words gave me the following:

qq:%0.00181491497123 jj:%0.00362982994247 yy:%0.00725965988493 vv:%0.0217789796548 uu:%0.0471877892521 ww:%0.10345015336 kk:%0.127044047986 hh:%0.134303707871 aa:%0.215974881577 zz:%0.490027042233 ii:%0.760449372947 bb:%1.67516651845 dd:%1.87299225031 gg:%2.05811357738 cc:%2.76593041616 ff:%3.15069239006 mm:%3.65705366704 pp:%3.66612824189 nn:%4.33038712136 tt:%5.83313671754 rr:%6.57906677072 ee:%7.21610192562 oo:%8.4792827456 ll:%20.6464727128 ss:%26.1565545654

55099 total matches from 234937 words.

By: liketitanic

liketitanic — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:25:21 -0800

staff?

By: amicamentis

amicamentis — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:42:51 -0800

Or stuff...

By: liketitanic

liketitanic — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:46:11 -0800

Effusive. Effluvia. Effervescent.

By: liketitanic

liketitanic — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:46:25 -0800

Scoff!

I like this game.

By: Dec One

Dec One — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:54:21 -0800

Huffing and puffing.

By: schwab

schwab — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:10:59 -0800

Buffalo! yay me

By: Cobalt

Cobalt — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:53:18 -0800

Ruffian!

By: amro

amro — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:34:11 -0800

Muffin. Cuff. Tuffet. Buff. Duff. Guffaw. Huff. Kerfuffle. Puff. Puffin.

Did you really think that there was only one?

By: box

box — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:32:56 -0800

Nah, he probably just figured he could sit on his duff while somebody else did the effort.

By: box

box — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:53:00 -0800

Whuffles.

By: ob

ob — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:55:57 -0800

Ineffable.

By: tractorfeed

tractorfeed — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:50:09 -0800

Man, I thought with 50+ comments, surely someone would have mentioned 'effigy' by now.

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:58:26 -0800

Mmmmmm waffles.

By: kirkaracha

kirkaracha — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:38:16 -0800

Muff.

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:12:14 -0800

Muff.

Buffoon!

By: owtytrof

owtytrof — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:53:59 -0800

Sincerely, this question leaves me baffled.

By: thatguyryan

thatguyryan — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:08:46 -0800

does this count?

sorry :(

By: zippy

zippy — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:58:54 -0800

morewords.com followup - words with two 'ff's

Your search for *ff*ff* matched 4 words in this word list

* chiffchaff
* chiffchaffs
* riffraff
* riffraffs

None with three or more.