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Think of a familiar 3-letter word that has two syllables. Add five letters
to it to get a common 8-letter word that only has one syllable. What word is
it? Hint: All the letters that are added go at the front or at the end.


I don't know the answer myself either...I wonder if it can be solved at all...

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Your crazy

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Your crazy

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what about my crazy ?

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i was thinking about 3 letter words and came up with "ion" .. now just to find 5 additional letters to slap in front of it ..

joe

ps -- someone told me that this CAN be solved..

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This could be some sort of distributed brain network...if we all work at this, we should be able to solve it!

some 3 letter, 2-syllable words:

via
boa
ado

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Hey y'all!

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Originally posted by ToolkiT
Think of a familiar 3-letter word that has two syllables.

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Here in South Carolina, every 3 letter word has two syllables...

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Anybody can think of a 8-letter word with only one syllable?

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Anybody can think of a 8-letter word with only one syllable?

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Anybody can think of a 8-letter word with only one syllable?

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Originally posted by Sideway
Anybody can think of a 8-letter word with only one syllable?

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smoothed, clutched, breathed ?, trounced, flounced, cleansed, glimpsed, clinched, sheathed, squeezed,

everything I think of ends in "ed."
Now I'm thinking of a few choice four-letter, one-syllable words for this puzzle ...

there's 'schmaltz' and 'schnapps' but with all those consonants they don't fit the other criteria.
straight?
Does it have to be an English word?

I've been dwelling on this riddle for too long today.
I have to go do something else.

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'syllable' is an eight letter word with one 'syllable'

trick question?

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No it doesn't! syll-a-ble.. oh wait.. you mean.. but ble isn't a word as I last checked.. THIS IS CONFUSING!

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'syllable' is an eight letter word with one 'syllable'
trick question?

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That's cute. I like it, but where would the "familiar 3-letter word that has two syllables" be? Because "All the letters that are added go at the front or at the end." *Sigh* I was hoping for an answer on this... I hate puzzles that I can't solve within a day - gives me headaches.

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Originally posted by ToolkiT
I don't know the answer myself either...I wonder if it can be solved at all...

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hmmm... if ToolKit doesn't know the answer and everyone else is making best guesses, how will anyone know if we solve it and come up with the correct answer?

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hmmm... if ToolKit doesn't know the answer and everyone else is making best guesses, how will anyone know if we solve it and come up with the correct answer?

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My bad

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Originally posted by narnia_77
That's cute. I like it, but where would the "familiar 3-letter word that has two syllables" be? Because "All the letters that are added go at the front or at the end." *Sigh* I was hoping for an answer on this... I hate puzzles that I can't solve within a day - gives me headaches.

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It seems as though any three-letter word with two syllables would have to have two vowel sounds in it?
Can anyone confirm or deny?

I agree with narnia_77 about puzzles ...

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They just had this puzzle on NPR today...but I only caught part of the answer. The 3 letter word is 'ole'

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Here are all the eight letter words with "ole" at the beginning or end, from the Merriam-Webster online dictionary (didn't see any one syllable ones, but I am a programmer, not an linguist. When I worry about syntax, it has to do with FOR..NEXT loops and where all my semi-colons are):

code:

oleander
oleaster
olefinic
amitrole
beanpole
blowhole
borehole
braciole
bunghole
cabriole
camisole
capriole
caracole
clodpole
coalhole
coalhole
diastole
escarole
flagpole
fumarole
girasole
hellhole
kneehole
knothole
loophole
monopole
ovariole
peephole
pesthole
picomole
porthole
posthole
seminole
sinkhole
slipsole
thiazole
turnsole
wormhole

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