# The third "-gry" word, revisited **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [May 16, 2025, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-third-gry-word-revisited/1018455 "2025-05-16T19:01:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2026, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-third-gry-word-revisited/1018455/21 "2026-04-02T17:34:54Z")
“Gryphon”. You didn’t specify which end. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2026, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-third-gry-word-revisited/1018455/22 "2026-04-02T17:42:49Z")
As has already been stated, deliberately poor communication is seldom “clever”. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2026, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-third-gry-word-revisited/1018455/23 "2026-04-02T17:43:09Z")
To which the obvious response is [![](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/words_that_end_in_gry.png) ](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/words_that_end_in_gry.png) ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2026, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-third-gry-word-revisited/1018455/24 "2026-06-11T15:41:42Z")
I may be missing something here, but isn’t the third ‘gry’ word [puggry](https://www.google.com/search?q=puggry&rlz=1C5CHFA_enCA1162CA1163&oq=puggry&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIICAEQABgKGB4yCggCEAAYgAQYogQyBwgDEAAY7wUyCggEEAAYgAQYogTSAQg5NjYwajBqNKgCALACAQ&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8)? ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2026, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-third-gry-word-revisited/1018455/25 "2026-06-11T16:13:47Z")
It’s hard to find the original formulation of the question, but some of the ones I’ve heard include the word “common” in them, like this one from the Wikipedia page on it: “There are three words in the English language that end with ‘gry’. Two of these are angry and hungry. The third word is a very common word, and you use it often. If you have read what I have told you, you will see that I have given you the third word. What is the third word? Think very carefully.” > **[\-gry puzzle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-gry_puzzle)** > > The -gry puzzle is a popular word puzzle that asks for the third English word that ends with the letters -gry other than angry and hungry. Specific wording varies substantially, but the puzzle has no clear answer, as there are no other common English words that end in -gry. Interpretations of the puzzle suggest it is either an answerless hoax; a trick question; a sincere question asking for an obscure word; or a corruption of a more straightforward puzzle, which may have asked for words co The u... ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2026, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-third-gry-word-revisited/1018455/26 "2026-06-12T02:03:37Z")
I believe that the answer is small and insignificant. Which, I think, just happens to be the definition of “gry”. What a coincidence. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2026, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-third-gry-word-revisited/1018455/27 "2026-06-12T02:35:05Z")
When I get frustrated and annoyed trying to solve puzzles I step back and realize that compared to most of the world my problems are merely gry and I feel much better. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-third-gry-word-revisited/1018455.md?page=1)