Riddle of the Day

[Gizmokid2005]

What do the words DEFT, CANOPY and STUN have in common? HINT: It is one common characteristic and has nothing to do with the number of letters, vowels, consonants or syllables in any of the words.

ANSWER (Congrats acoustikarl): The common thing, is each word has three letters in consecutive alphabetical order:

DEFt
caNOPy
STUn

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