Category: Word puzzles

Begins with e, ends with e and contains just a single letter (word puzzle)

Posted on 2 June 202331 May 2023 by thepuzzledbee

What word begins with ‘e’, ends with ‘e’, yet contains just a single letter?

Reveal solution

The word envelope. It starts with ‘e’ ends with ‘e’, and contains a single letter (a written message sent by post). Another answer could be the words ‘I’ and ‘eye’ (when pronounced they sound the same).

A great woman word puzzle

Posted on 24 May 202324 May 2023 by thepuzzledbee

What word in the English language has its first two letters signify a male, its first three letters signify a female, its first four letters signify a great man, and it’s whole signify a great woman?

Reveal solution

Heroine. The first two letters make ‘he’, the first three letters make ‘her’, and the first four letters make ‘hero’.

Forwards, backwards and upside down word puzzle

Posted on 19 May 202320 May 2023 by thepuzzledbee

It was midday and Honey the bee was flying along collecting nectar from the flowers. Suddenly Honey thought of a word. “This word reads the same forwards, backwards and upside down”, she exclaimed!

What word did Honey think of?

Reveal solution

Honey was thinking of the word ‘NOON’.