Puzzles that play with the English language — anagrams, hidden meanings, letter tricks, and words that aren't what they seem.
What word begins with 'e', ends with 'e', and contains only one letter?
What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Rearrange the letters in 'LISTEN' to form another English word that describes what you do with your ears.
I am a six-letter word. If you remove one letter, I become a number.
What English word contains the vowels 'e', 'a', and 'u' but is pronounced as a single syllable?
I am a word of five letters. If you remove my first letter, I sound the same. If you remove my last letter, I also sound the same. Even if you remove my middle letter, I still sound the same.
I am the beginning of the end, and the end of time and space. I am essential to creation, and I surround every place.
This is a most unusual paragraph. It looks so ordinary you’d think nothing was wrong with it – and in fact, nothing is wrong with it. It is unusual though. Why?
I am a word of 5 letters and people eat me. If you remove the first letter I become a form of energy. Remove the first two and I’m needed to live. Scramble the last 3 and you can drink me.
Before any changes I’m a garlic or spice. My first is altered and I’m a hand-warming device. My second is changed and I’m trees in full bloom. The next letter change makes a deathly old tomb. Change the fourth to make a fruit of the vine. Change the last for a chart plotted with lines. What was I? What did I become? What did I turn out to be?
I can run but cannot walk, everywhere you go I am already there.
From the following list of clues, what is the same 4 letter word that is missing within each clue? HINT: Some say this word is blind. BE_ _ _ _D C_ _ _ _R G_ _ _ _S PUL_ _ _ _R
We are five little objects of an everyday sort you will find us all in the ladies’ court.
The beginning of eternity The end of time and space The beginning of every end, And the end of every place.
As a whole, I am both safe and secure. Behead me, and I become a place of meeting. Behead me again, and I am the partner of ready. Restore me, and I become the domain of beasts.
Three words all end in -gry. One is hungry, the other is angry. The third is one that you use every day, if you were paying attention I already gave you the answer.
I know a word of letters three. Add two and fewer there will be.
First think of the person who lives in disguise, Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies. Next, tell me what’s always the last thing to mend, The middle of middle and end of the end? And finally give me the sound often heard During the search for a hard-to-find word. Now string them together.
How do you make the number 7 even without addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division?
What word in the English language does the following: the first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four letters signify a great, while the entire word signifies a great woman.
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
What do you see once in June, twice in November, and not at all in May?
What five-letter word has one left when two letters are removed?
Spelled forwards I’m what you do every day, spelled backward I’m something you hate. What am I?
What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in 1,000 years?
What four-letter word can be written forward, backward, or upside down and can still be read from left to right?
What five-letter English word can be pronounced the same even with four of its letters removed?
What 5-letter word typed in all capital letters can be read the same upside down?
Two in a corner, one in a room, zero in a house, but one in a shelter.
Which five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
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