🔤 Word riddles and letter riddles with answers

These riddles play with spelling, letters and sounds. Say the words out loud and look at how they are written.

1. What word is spelled wrong in every dictionary?

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   Read the question very literally.

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   "Wrong"

2. What starts with T, ends with T, and has T in it?

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   The "tea" goes inside.

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   A teapot

3. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?

   💡 Hint

   Look at the letters, not the time.

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   The letter M

4. What five-letter word gets shorter when you add two letters to it?

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   The answer is in the question.

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   "Short" - add "er" and you get "shorter."

5. What is at the end of a rainbow?

   💡 Hint

   Spell "rainbow."

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   The letter W

6. What begins with E, ends with E, and has only one letter in it?

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   You mail a letter in it.

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   An envelope

7. What word contains all 26 letters?

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   It doesn't spell them all - it holds them all.

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   "Alphabet"

8. I'm a word of letters three. Add two more, and fewer there will be. What word am I?

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   The answer is in the last line.

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   "Few" - add "er" and you get "fewer."

9. What is the longest word in English?

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   Look for a distance inside a word.

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   "Smiles" - there's a mile between the first and last letters!

10. Which letter asks a question?

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    Say each letter out loud.

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    Y (why?)

11. Forward I'm heavy, but backward I'm not. What word am I?

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    Spell me backward.

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    "Ton" - backward it spells "not."

12. I'm a time of day, and I'm spelled the same forward and backward. What word am I?

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    It's when you eat lunch.

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    "Noon"