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boughs, coughs, roughs
They all have 3 letters, but "red" and "tan" have exactly 3 letters.
There is no word that can consist of 7 consonants and only have 3 letters. Consonants are letters.
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The initials SLO refer to the Olympic country code for the country of Slovenia. The first three letters are used to identify a country with a unique 3 letter code. In some cases the code may not be the first three letters but a subset of letters in the country's name.
The letters represent the initials of the months: January, February, March, etc. That being so, the next 3 letters would be SON (Sept, Oct, Nov).
How can the word be 3 letters long if "sand" alone is 4? .
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fly? bug?
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26^3. There are 26 possible letters, so that is why we multipy by 26. Because there are 4 positions, and the first is taken with "A", that only leaves 3 positions left. As there are 26 possible letters in each position, you multiply by 26 three times, or, 26 to the third power.
The longest words are only 3 letters long: add, aid, bad, bid, dab, dad, did, and
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The longest words with these letters are only 4 letters long: data and tidy. The 3-letter words are add, aid, dad, day, did, and tad.