double letter
Repeated alphabetic symbol
A double letter is a letter that appears twice in immediate succession within a word: the double t in "letter," the double s in "possess." English spelling frequently uses double consonants to indicate a short vowel in the preceding syllable, though the rules are notoriously inconsistent.
In word games like Scrabble, tiles landing on double-letter squares score twice their face value.
- bookkeeperFinancial records maintainer
- geminationConsonant sound prolongation
- yellowHue between green and orange
- digraphTwo letters, one sound
- ligatureCord for binding
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- Scrabbletiles, board, rack, blank, triple word
- game board spacesstart, finish, go, jail, free parking
- Misspellingsmisspelling, typo, spelling error, mistype, teh
- text errorstypo, misspelling, misprint, spelling mistake, punctuation error
- typostypo, misspelling, misprint, transposition, duplication
- word propertiesprefix, suffix, root, syllable, vowel