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What Seven Letter Word
Hint: This word is heavy.
Weights.
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A Word With Two Meanings
Hint:
A tie.
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A Word I Know Riddle
Hint:
Dozens.
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Words And Letters Riddle
Hint:
What, Still, Occasionally, Later, Never, Happily
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Longest Word In English Riddle
Hint:
Smiles. There’s a mile between the beginning and end.
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A Word Referring To Women Riddle
Hint:
Aunt
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Common English Word Riddle
Hint:
Shorter
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11 Letter Word Riddle
Hint:
Incorrectly!
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Name A Word Riddle
Hint:
Firetruck
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The 6 Letter Word Riddle
Hint:
Prince + ss = princess
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Five Letter Words Riddle
Hint:
Short.
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The 9 Lettered Word
Hint:
‘Startling’ is the word. Begin by removing ‘l’, which makes it ‘starting’, then take away the ‘t’, making it ‘staring’, and so on — string; sting; sing; sin; in; and, I.
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Pronounced Words Riddle
Hint:
Wrong!
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What Word In The English Language Is Always Spelled Incorrectly
Hint:
Incorrectly
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The Mixed Words Riddle
Hint:
Scrambled eggs
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Which of the following words don’t belong in the group and why?
CORSET, COSTER, SECTOR, ESCORT, COURTS
What word contains all of the twenty six letters?
Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not.
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There is a word in the English language in which the first two letters
signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four
signify a great man, and the whole word, a great woman.
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We hurt without moving.
We poison without touching.
We bear the truth and the lies.
We are not to be judged by our size.
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What English word has three consecutive double letters?
I know a word of letters three. Add two, and fewer there will be.
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What word is right when pronounced wrong, but is wrong when
pronounced right?
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What is one thing that all wise men,
regardless of their politics or religion,
agree is between heaven and earth?
One word in this sentence is misspelled. What word is it?
Which word that begins with the letter I, and by adding the letter A,
becomes another word that is pronounced the same?
Which word in the English language becomes shorter when it is lengthened?
Two words, my answer is only two words. To keep me, you must give me.
What has five eyes, but cannot see?
What word doesn’t belong in this group?
That, hat, what, mat, cat, sat, pat, or chat?
What 11-letter English word does everyone pronounce incorrectly?
I am the beginning of the end, and the end of time and space.
I am essential to creation, and I surround every place.
What is at the end of a rainbow?
What common English word has the 3 letter consecutive sequence, «XOP»?
Granny looked up from her rocking chair and said:
As far as I can tell, there is only one anagram of the word trinket.
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1. Riddle: What has 18 legs and catches flies?
Answer: A baseball team.
2. Riddle: The poor have me; the rich need me. Eat me and you will die. What am I?
Answer: Nothing.
3. Riddle: What has 13 hearts but no other organs?
Answer: A deck of cards.
4. Riddle: Four jolly men sat down to play and played all night, ’til the break of day. They played for cash and not for fun, with a separate score for everyone. When it came time to square accounts, they’d all had made quite fair amounts. Not one had lost and all had gained, so tell me how. Can you explain?
Answer: The men were in a band.
5. Riddle: I have branches but no fruit, trunk, or leaves. What am I?
Answer: A bank.
6. Riddle: What word contains all of the twenty-six letters?
Answer: Alphabet.
7. Riddle: What do you get when you mix lemons with gun powder?
Answer: Lemonades.
8. Riddle: What is the longest word in the English language?
Answer: Smiles – Because there’s a ‘mile’ between the two S’s
9. Riddle: What five-letter word can be read the same upside down or right side up?
Answer: Swims.
10. Riddle: Which word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly?
Answer: Incorrectly.
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11. Riddle: You are walking down a road and come to a fork. One path leads to certain death; the other leads to eternal happiness. You don’t know which is which. In the middle of the fork, you come across two brothers who know which road is which. One brother always tells the truth and the other always lies. You can only ask them one question. How would you determine which road to take?
Answer: Ask each brother, “if you were your brother, which road would you say leads to eternal happiness?” Both brothers should give you the same answer. You would take the opposite path.
12. Riddle: What has a head and a tail, but no body or legs?
Answer: A coin.
13. Riddle: What color can you eat?
Answer: Orange.
14. Riddle: What do you call a three-humped camel?
Answer: Pregnant.
15. Riddle: Which word is the odd one out—stun, ton, evil, letter, mood, bad, snap, straw?
Answer: Letter. If you read each word backward, letter is the only one that does not make another valid word.
16. Riddle: I am a solitary word, 5 letters long. Behead me once, I am the same. Behead me again, I am still the same.
Answer: Alone
17. Riddle: What is one thing that all wise men, regardless of their politics or religion, have to agree is between heaven and earth?
Answer: The word “and.”
18. Riddle: Which is correct to say: “the yolk of the egg are white” or “the yolk of the egg is white?”
Answer: Neither! Yolks are yellow.
19. Riddle: What has many words but never speaks?
Answer: A book.
20. Riddle: You’ll often find us on a line. When we’re together, it’s a crime. What are we?
Answer: Crows. A group of crows is called a “murder.”
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21. Riddle: If I am holding a bee, what do I have in my eye?
Answer: Beauty. Beauty is in the eye of the bee-holder.
22. Riddle: They come at night without being called and are lost in the day without being stolen. What are they?
Answer: Stars.
23. Riddle: What word, describing a job title, has three consecutive double letters?
Answer: Bookkeeper
24. Riddle: I touch the earth and I touch the sky, but if I touch you, you’ll likely die. What am I?
Answer: Lightning.
25. Riddle: If there are five apples and you take away three, how many apples do you have?
Answer: Three.
26. Riddle: What four-letter word can be written forward, backward or upside down, and can still be read from left to right?
Answer: NOON.
27. Riddle: I am lighter than air, but a hundred people cannot lift me—I’m too fragile. What am I?
Answer: A bubble.
28. Riddle: You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?
Answer: An ear of corn.
29. Riddle: Pronounced as one letter and written with three, two letters there are and two only in me. I’m double. I’m single. I’m black, blue, and gray. I’m read from both ends, but the same either way. What am I?
Answer: Eye.
30. Riddle: If you throw me out the window, you’ll leave a grieving wife, but drop me in the middle of a door, and you might just save a life. What am I?
Answer: The letter N.
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1. A single word that is versatile, it can be a letter, unknown to the problem, a variable, a target, a love, an intercept, and a type of chromosome. What am I?
Answer: X.
2. Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday?
Answer: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.
3. Find an English word that is singular, add an “s” and it becomes plural, and add another “s” until it becomes singular again. What is it?
Answer: There are actually 3 correct answers: Caress. Princess. Brass.
4. Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
Answer: The word Ton.
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5. Granny looked up from her rocking chair and said: As far as I can tell, there is only one anagram of the word trinket. What is it?
Answer: The word knitter.
6. I am a fruit. If you take away the first letter of my name I become a crime. Take away the first two letters of my name I become an animal. Take away the first and last letter of my name and I become a form of music. What am I?
Answer: Grape.
7. I am a rock group that has 4 members, all of whom are dead, one of which was assasinated. What am I?
Answer: Mount Rushmore. Get it, rock group?
8. I am six letters. When you take one away I am twelve. What am I?
Answer: The word Dozens.
9. I have one, you have one. Take away a letter and a bit remains. If you remove the second, the bit still remains. After much trying, you might be able to remove the first one also, but it remains. What’s the word?
Answer: Habit! Remove the ‘H’, and it’s ‘a bit’. Remove the ‘A’, and it’s ‘bit’. Remove ‘B’, and it’s ‘it’.
10. I know a word of the letters three. Add two, and fewer there will be. What is it?
Answer: The word “Few”.
11. I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. What am I?
Answer: A barber
12. I’m found in socks, scarves, and mittens; and often in the paws of playful kittens. What am I?
Answer: Yarn
13. I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for five minutes. What am I?
Answer: Your breath
14. I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
Answer: A candle
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15. If you’re running in a race and you pass the person in second place, what place are you in?
Answer: Second place
16. If you’ve got me, you want to share me; if you share me, you haven’t kept me. What am I?
Answer: A secret
17. It belongs to you, but other people use it more than you do. What is it?
Answer: Your name
18. It is a 5 letter word if you take away the first letter it is something you get from sun if you remove the second letter you will get something to eat, if you remove the third letter you get a word you use in pointing at and if you remove the fourth letter you get something to drink. What is it?
Answer: Wheat.
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19. Name an English word of more than 2 letters that both begins and ends with the letters “he” in that order, there are two possible answers. What is it?
Answer: Headache or Heartache.
20. One word in this sentence is misspelled. What word is it?
Answer: MISSPELLED. It isn’t spelled wrong, the one word in this sentence IS “misspelled.”
21. There is a word in the English language in which the first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four signify a great man, and the whole word, a great woman. What is the word?
Answer: Heroine.
22. There’s a one-story house in which everything is yellow. Yellow walls, yellow doors, yellow furniture. What color are the stairs?
Answer: There aren’t any—it’s a one-story house.
23. Two words, my answer is only two words. To keep me, you must give me. What am I?
Answer: “Your word”.
24. We hurt without moving. We poison without touching. We bear the truth and the lies. We are not to be judged by our size. What are we?
Answer: Words.
25. What 11-letter English word does everyone pronounce incorrectly?
Answer: Incorrectly!
26. What 4-letter word can be written forward, backward or upside down, and can still be read from left to right?
Answer: NOON.
27. What 5 letter words typed in all capital letters can be read the same upside down?
Answer: SWIMS.
28. What 7-letter word is spelled the same way backward and forwards?
Answer: Racecar.
29. What 8-letter word can have a letter taken away and it still makes a word. Take another letter away and it still makes a word. Keep on doing that until you have one letter left. What is the word?
Answer: The word is starting! starting, staring, string, sting, sing, sin, in, I. Cool, huh?
30. What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?
Answer: A promise
31. What can you catch, but not throw?
Answer: A cold
Word Puzzle Questions, Brain Teasers With Answers
32. What can you hold in your left hand but not in your right?
Answer: Your right elbow
33. What can you keep after giving to someone?
Answer: Your word
34. What common English word has the 3-letter consecutive sequence, “XOP”?
Answer: Sa-xop-hone.
35. What English word has three consecutive double letters?
Answer: Bookkeeper.
36. What English word retains the same pronunciation, even after you take away four of its five letters?
Answer: Queue.
37. What familiar word starts with IS, ends with AND, and has LA in the middle?
Answer: ISLAND.
38. What goes up and down but doesn’t move?
Answer: A staircase
39. What is the longest word in the dictionary?
Answer: Smiles (there is a mile between the two S’s)
40. What word contains all of the twenty-six letters?
Answer: Alphabet.
41. What word doesn’t belong in this group? That, hat, what, mat, cat, sat, pat, or chat?
Answer: What. It’s pronounced differently; all of the others rhyme.
42. What word is right when pronounced wrong, but is wrong when pronounced right?
Answer: The answer is wrong to think about it.
43. What word of five letters has only one left when two letters are removed?
Answer: Stone Remove ‘St’ and you’re left with ‘One’
44. Which of the following words don’t belong in the group and why? CORSET, COSTER, SECTOR, ESCORT, COURTS.
Answer: Courts. All of the others are anagrams of each other.
45. Which word in the English language becomes shorter when it is lengthened?
Answer: Short.
46. Which word is the odd one out: First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth?
Answer: Forth, is incorrectly spelled. It should be the Fourth.
47. Which word that begins with the letter I, and by adding the letter A, becomes another word that is pronounced the same?
Answer: Isle and Aisle.