585+ Words With Double Letters

If you really sit and think about it, how many words with double letters can you think of from your memory alone? Double-letter words are words that contain at least one set of letters used twice consecutively to make a certain sound, usually used in the emphasized syllable in the word containing them.

Double-Letter Words Are Common

You may not realize it, but to this point, you've already read nine double-letter words since you started reading this article. Does that make you happy, or do you simply think it's silly? After realizing just how common they can be, you'd probably be surprised to see the list of words you use in your everyday communication that have double letters.

Double-Letter Words With 3 Letters

Even though three-letter words are very short, they can definitely be words that have two identical letters in a row. There are a surprising number of words with three letters that feature double letters.

add	all	app
ass	bee	boo
cee	coo	ebb
eek	eel	egg
ell	err	fee
foo	gee	goo
hee	hmm	ill
inn	lee	née
odd	off	oof
roo	see	tee
too	wee	zoo

Double-Letter Words With 4 Letters

Among the many, many four-letter words in the English language, quite a few of them feature double letters.

ball	bass	been
beep	beer	beet
bell	book	boom
boot	buff	bull
butt	call	cell
cook	cool	coon
coop	coot	deed
deem	deep	deer
dell	doff	doll
doom	door	eddy
fall	feed	feel
feet	fell	food
fool	foot	full
fuss	gaff	gall
guff	gull	hall
heed	heel	hell
hill	hood	hoof
hoop	hoot	hull
jeep	keel	keen
keep	knee	less
mall	mood	need
pall	pass	peed
peek	peel	pill
poll	poof	pool
poor	reed	reef
reel	roll	rood
roof	room	root
sass	seed	seek
seem	seen	seep
seer	sell	sill
soon	soot	tall
teed	teem	teen
tell	toll	tool
wall	watt	weed
week	weep	well
yell

Double-Letter Words With 5 Letters

There are lots of five-letter words that include double letters. Some, such as latte, are heavily influenced or created solely by other languages. Some are simply a plural form of four-letter words that include double letters, like weeks or tools.

abyss	achoo	added
addle	agree	allay
amass	annex	array
atoll	baggy	balls
betta	bless	bliss
bluff	bossy	bunny
chess	chill	class
cliff	comma	crass
daily	dizzy	dolly
dress	drill	dwell
fizzy	floor	floss
fluff	fully	funny
gabby	gloss	gooey
grass	grill	gross
happy	heeled	hello
henna	hurry	igloo
inner	kazoo	knoll
kooky	latte	leers
lolly	lotto	melee
messy	missy	offer
patty	penne	piggy
posse	press	puree
quell	quill	rummy
runny	rupee	scoff
scuff	shall	silly
sissy	skiff	skill
skull	small	smell
spell	spoon	spree
staff	stall	steel
stiff	still	stuff
sunny	swell	tabby
taboo	taffy	three
tools	trees	trill
troll	tummy	weeks
wheel	whoop	yahoo

Double-Letter Words With 6 Letters

So many six-letter words contain double letters in the English language, largely because of the fact that, in most cases, a six-letter word requires at least two vowels in order for the word to work.

accept	across	addle
affair	affect	annual
appeal	appear	arrive
asleep	assess	assume
attack	baboon	bamboo
battle	beeped	beetle
better	boogie	breeze
bubble	button	called
cannot	cheese	choose
cocoon	coffee	common
cookie	cooler	cotton
creepy	degree	doodle
esteem	feeble	feeder
ferry	follow	fooled
frilly	gallop	geezer
gloomy	goggle	goober
grabby	granny	groove
heeded	heeler	hookah
indeed	juggle	keeper
killed	lagoon	latter
letter	litter	loofah
manner	mutter	needle
noodle	pepped	rabbit
really	school	screen
seeded	seemed	shrill
smooth	speech	spooky
stalls	street	summer
teepee	tennis	toffee
unless	vacuum	valley
weeded	weekly	weenie
wiener	wheels	yellow

Longer Double-Letter Words

With so many prefixes and suffixes in the English language, turning a simple six-letter word into a much longer word with double letters becomes quite easy. For instance, the word communicate is a double-letter word that can be made significantly longer by adding a prefix and a suffix to make a different word, like excommunication. Of course, some double-letter words are simply lengthy on their own.

account	accused	address
alleged	appealing	applied
arranged	arrival	assault
assumed	assumption	assured
attempt	attract	baggies
beekeeper	between	billion
blossom	bookkeeper	bubbles
bunnies	business	calling
channel	classic	collection
command	comment	commentator
communicate	communication	current
disagree	discuss	dressage
excommunicate	express	feelings
filling	fitness	follower
freedom	funnies	glitter
goggled	goggles	grasshopper
greetings	illness	installation
killing	littler	massage
message	mission	missionary
moonlight	noodles	passage
passenger	passing	proceed
processing	procession	rubbish
session	shelled	shuffle
shuffled	shuffles	spaghetti
starring	steeled	supposed
tresses	tummies	village
warring	weekend	wheedle
willing	witness	written

Words That Start With Double Letters

There's something fun about a word that starts with double letters. While there aren't a ton of them in the English language, these are a few.

aardvark	eerie	eek
eel	llama	oodles
oogenesis	ooh	oomph
oops	ooze	oozing

Words That End With Double Letters

While it isn't a full list, we'll share our list of words that end with double letters.

abyss	access	across
agree	amass	amiss
assess	bamboo	bass
befall	bill	boss
brass	buff	bungee
buzz	bypass	caress
cell	chaff	chess
cross	cuckoo	cuff
cull	cutoff	decree
degree	dill	dress
dull	duress	egress
emcee	enroll	entree
excess	fess	fill
flee	free	fuzz
gall	gee	ghee
gill	glass	glee
grill	guess	harass
hiss	jazz	jinn
kill	kiss	knell
krill	lass	layoff
levee	loss	lull
melee	mess	mill
miss	morass	moss
mutt	null	pall
pass	payee	payoff
poll	puff	pull
puree	purr	putt
quell	quill	recall
recess	refill	riff
runoff	scoff	scroll
sniff	snuff	spill
stiff	still	stress
stroll	tariff	tattoo
tell	thee	thrall
thrill	tiff	till
too	toss	tree
troll	truss	twill
unwell	uphill	voodoo

Words With 2 Sets of Double Letters

Double the double-letter fun with these words that have two sets of double letters.

aggression	aggressive	balloon
bassoon	bitterness	bittersweet
buffoon	buttress	cappuccino
coffee	commission	commissioner
coolly	decommission	embarrass
foodstuff	foolishness	football
fricassee	fuzzball	happiness
lessee	mattress	millennium
misspell	misspelled	misspelling
mollycoddle	riffraff	sappiness
settee	sloppiness	suffragette
taffeta	teepee	toffee

Words With 3 Sets of Double Letters

Believe it or not, there are even some words that contain three sets of double letters (including the U.S. state of Mississippi).

addressee	aggressiveness	barrenness
bookkeeper	bookkeeping	cheerlessness
committee	greenness	heedlessness
keenness	possessiveness	sleeplessness
stubbornness	subcommittee	suddenness
sullenness	unsuccessfully	whippoorwill

Word Size Doesn't Matter

Because of the different phonetic sounds made by every letter in the English alphabet (the Spanish alphabet has its own sets of double letters to pronounce certain sounds, like “aa” and “ll”), double letters are necessary to emphasize certain sounds within words and to ensure the word is pronounced correctly. For example, if the word letter only had one “t”, it would sound like a completely different word that has a completely different meaning.

There is no size requirement for a word to contain a double-letter sequence, or limit to how large a word can be.
Words with double letters in the English language can range from three letters to any amount of letters.
In fact, the larger the word, the better chance you'll have of seeing at least one double-letter pairing.

Recognizing Double-Letter Words

Now that you have had the frequency of these words brought to your attention, you can see just how often they occur in your daily communication and why they're important to the phonetics of the English language. Words with double letters are some of the most frequently used and seldom noticed types of words that people use in everyday speech, whether the communication is written or expressed verbally.

Try to take note, for one full day, of all the words you use that contain double letters. Chances are, you'll be surprised. While you’re thinking in twos, move on to explore examples of words with multiple meanings.