Word Riddles

If you are a fan of languages and are especially interested in the peculiarities of English, then these word riddles with answers are perfect for you. Expect some serious head-scratching and brace yourself for some fun wordplay. Knowing that the solution to these word puzzles lies somewhere in their wording doesn’t mean they’re any easier to solve. Quite the opposite! Get ready to decipher meanings, untangle letters, and unravel the mysteries of these riddles!

62 Word Riddles With Answers

What will emerge from combining a cat with a tree trunk?

Answer: A cat-a-log.

I have one, you have one. If you remove the first letter, a bit remains. If you remove the second, the bit still remains. If you remove the third, it still remains.

Answer: Habit

The alphabet goes from A to Z but I go Z to A. What am I?

Answer: A zebra.

Forward I’m heavy, but backward I’m not. What am I?

Answer: Ton

How many E’s are in the 4th of July?

Answer: How many E’s are in the 4th of July?

A seed am I, three letters make my name. Take away two and I still sound the same.

Answer: Pea

What word, describing a job title, has three consecutive double letters?

Answer: Bookkeeper.

What do call a criminal landing an airplane?

Answer: Condescending

What can break, but never fall? What can fall, but never break?

Answer: Day and night

There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches tall, and he wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh?

Answer: Meat.

What letter should replace the ? at the end: M M L J A R C C G E P C ?

Answer: T

My first is in chocolate but not in ham, my second's in cake and also in jam, my third at tea-time is easily found, my whole is a friend who's often around. What am I?

Answer: A cat.

If the end of the year is December 31st, what is the end of Christmas?

Answer: The letter 's'.

A grandfather, a father, and a son go fishing. Each gets one fish but there is only one fish how is this?

Answer: It is only one person. He is a son of his father, he is a father to his son and he is a grandfather to his grandchild.

What kind of nut is empty at the center and has no shell?

Answer: Doughnut

I know a word with three letters. Add two, and fewer there will be.

Answer: The word “Few“

There’s only one word in the dictionary that’s spelled wrong. What is it?

Answer: The word “wrong" - W-R-O-N-G.

What did Santa need when he sprained his ankle?

Answer: A candy cane

I'm a cheese that is made backwards. What am I?

Answer: Edam.

What is the longest word in the English language?

Answer: Smiles – Because there’s a ‘mile’ between the two S’s

What starts with "e," ends with "e," and contains one letter?

Answer: Envelope

My first is twice in apple but not once in tart. My second is in liver but not in heart. My third is in giant and also in ghost. Whole I’m best when I am roast.

Answer: Pig

Who won the neck decorating contest?

Answer: It was a tie.

Why was the cat thrown out of the card game?

Answer: Because he was a Cheetah!

There is a pink single-story house and everything in it is pink. The doors are pink, the windows are pink and the TV is pink. What color are the stairs?

Answer: There are no stairs in a single-story house.

What is orange and sounds like a parrot?

Answer: A carrot.

What band never plays music?

Answer: Rubber band

I was framed, yet I didn't commit a crime, and the person who framed me committed no crime. How is this possible?

Answer: I am a picture, and I was put in a picture frame

Which is the most curious letter?

Answer: Y.

Three little letters. A paradox to some. The worse that it is, the better it becomes.

Answer: Pun

What has many words but never speaks?

Answer: A book.

Here are six clues to six words: capital of France, snake, headache tablet, single article, twisted ankle, coarse file, equally. When arranged in the correct order, each word is an anagram of the previous word with a letter removed.

Answer: Aspirin, sprain, Paris, rasp, asp, as, a

What English word retains the same pronunciation, even after you take away four of its five letters?

Answer: Queue.

A woman and a man go on a date. While on their date, the woman shoots the man, drowns the man, and hangs the man. The next night, the same man and woman go on a date and both of them are 100% fine. How is this possible?

Answer: The woman shoots a picture of him, drowns the picture to develop it, then she hangs the picture.

A word I know, six letters it contains. Subtract just one and twelve remains

Answer: The word Dozens

What fruit never wants to be alone?

Answer: A pear.

Name a word that starts with “f” and ends with “u-c-k”?

Answer: Firetruck!

You see a boat filled with people, yet there isn’t a single person on board. How is that possible?

Answer: They are all married.

I am pronounced as one letter, but written with three. Two letters there are, and two only in me: I`m double, I`m single, I`m black, blue and gray. Reverse me and I read the same either way. What am I?

Answer: An eye.

What did the pirate say on his 80th birthday?

Answer: Aye matey

It starts with the letter “P” and ends with “O.R.N”. It plays a major role in the film industry. What is it?

Answer: Popcorn.

Which bus could cross the ocean?

Answer: Columbus.

What should do you do with a dead Chemist?

Answer: Barium!

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.

Two mothers and two daughters went fishing one day. They were there there the whole day and only caught 3 fish. One mother said: "That is enough for all of us, we will have one each." How can this be possible?

Answer: There was the mother, her daughter, and her daughter's daughter. This equals 2 mothers and 2 daughters.

When does Friday come before Thursday?

Answer: In the dictionary.

How many apples grow on an apple tree?

Answer: All of them

What role in baseball does a cat play?

Answer: The Cat-cher.

I act like a cat, I look like a cat, yet I am not a cat. What am I?

Answer: A kitten.

I'm the beginning of existence and the end of time, I'm the beginning of everything and the end of space. What am I?

Answer: The letter E.

These word riddles with answers make use of all the tricks in the dictionary to create fun but also demanding challenges for those bent on finding their solution. Wordplay, sound play, double entendres, puns, everything is valid. Some are intended as purely funny riddles while others can take a more serious approach and turn into hard riddles, but one thing is certain: they are always a pleasant challenge that will prompt a few chuckles even when they take a dark turn. Can you solve them all?

Last Updated: Friday, December 20, 2024