Three completely different words. (No two words are alike.)
Each word has only two (2) letters.
The three words can mean, ‘very big’ or ‘very small’.
What are the three words?
And, I’m very curious to know if anybody has ever heard this riddle before, or seen it in print anywhere.
(It’s not that hard of a riddle IMHO, but if it looks like no one is able to solve it quickly, I do have a ‘hint’ that should steer y’all in the right direction.)
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?? The riddle conditions are that (1) all three words are distinct and not alike. These three all start with the same letter, making them “alike” in my book, although I’m not sure what “not alike” means for two-letter words. (2) How do they mean “very small” or “very big”?
As to the OP - does the three words can mean, ‘very big’ or ‘very small’ mean when the three words are put together in a phrase (as in the most excellent facetious answer given already by NineToTheSky)? Because as someone who knows all the 2-letter Scrabble words, plus a few that really should be on the list but aren’t (but are for other word games), I can’t see how any of them mean “very big” and/or “very small” on their own.
I, too, don’t know any two letter words that mean big or small (and I don’t think we for wee counts), so I think it must be along the lines of my answer.
I agree that “alike” is not clear. I’m not sure what it would mean other than “the same,” but if that’s the meaning then why not say “the same?” The words are similar in having two letters each, and likewise similar in beginning with “i” – so how similar is “alike?”. One’s a verb, one’s a noun, and one’s a preposition, so they’re quite unlike in that regard. I suspect the OP may have added “no two words are alike” for clarity, but it actually would have been clearer if simply left at “three completely different words,” or better yet rendered as “three different words.”
