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Word Oddity (6) Some have 6 (Posted on 2007-12-10) Difficulty: 1 of 5
The following list of twelve common English words have at least one other thing in common. What is it?

strengths        angstrom       birthplace   dumbstruck
eighths          heartthrob     warmths      lengths
postscript       thumbscrew     witchcraft   twelfths

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Solution Puzzle Solution Comment 6 of 6 |
Each of the 12 words precicely 5 consonants in a row.
These are succinctly depicted hereunder as follows:
 
Word                    String containing 5                       
                            repeated consonants                        
--------                   -----------------------------------                   
strengths                   ngths
eighths                      ghths
postscript                  stscr    
angstrom                  angst
heartthrob                  rtthr
thumbscrews           mbscr
birthplace                  rthpl
warmths                    rmths
witchcraft                  tchcr
dumbstruck              mbstr
lengths                       ngths
twelfths                      lfths

Edited on July 19, 2022, 11:00 pm
  Posted by K Sengupta on 2022-07-19 22:56:34

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