🔤 Word Puzzles & Wordplay

Shifting away from riddles for this one, purely wordplay and anagrams instead, the kind of thing that is oddly satisfying once it clicks into place. 1. Rearrange the letters of "LISTEN" to get another common word. Answer: ▸ Show answer 2. What common English word has three consecutive double letters? Answer: ▸ Show answer 3. I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I? Answer: ▸ Show answer 4. What common English word contains all five vowels in order, exactly once each? Answer: ▸ Show answer 5. Rearrange "ASTRONOMER" to get another word connected to space. Answer: ▸ Show answer 6. What word starts and ends with the same three letters, in the same order? Answer: ▸ Show answer 7. Add two letters to "HEAR" to make a new word meaning the floor of a fireplace. Answer: ▸ Show answer 8. 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 person, while the entire word signifies a great woman. Answer: ▸ Show answer Try these before scrolling down, some of them take a minute to click but feel genuinely satisfying once they do.