16 Word Riddles For Adults With Answers

16 Word Riddles For Adults With Answers


1. Riddle: What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?

Answer: Short


2. Riddle: What begins with an “e” and only contains one letter?

Answer: An envelope


3. Riddle: A word I know, six letters it contains, remove one letter and 12 remains. What is it?

Answer: Dozens


4. Riddle: What would you find in the middle of Toronto?

Answer: The letter “o”


5. Riddle: You see me once in June, twice in November and not at all in May. What am I?

Answer: The letter “e”


6. Riddle: Two in a corner, one in a room, zero in a house, but one in a shelter. What is it?

Answer: The letter “r”


7. Riddle: I am the beginning of everything, the end of everywhere. I’m the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space. What am I?

Answer: Also the letter “e”


8. Riddle: What 4-letter word can be written forward, backward or upside down, and can still be read from left to right?

Answer: NOON


9. Riddle: Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?

Answer: The word “not”


10. Riddle: What is 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat and 2/4 goat?

Answer: Chicago


11. Riddle: I am a word of letters three; add two and fewer there will be. What word am I?

Answer: Few


12. Riddle: What word of five letters has one left when two are removed?

Answer: Stone


13. Riddle: What is the end of everything?

Answer: The letter “g”


14. Riddle: What word is pronounced the same if you take away four of its five letters?

Answer: Queue


15. Riddle: I am a word that begins with the letter “i.” If you add the letter “a” to me, I become a new word with a different meaning, but that sounds exactly the same. What word am I?

Answer: Isle (add “a” to make “aisle”)


16. Riddle: 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 world signifies a great woman. What is the word?

Answer: Heroine 

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