Spelling Riddles: 30 Letter and Word Riddles with Answers

Which letter of the alphabet is full of salty water, waves and fish?

Which letter can you see with?

Which letter is always asking a question?

I start with A and end with Z, and I have 26 letters. What am I?

I start with E, I end with E, and I usually have only one letter inside. What am I?

What’s at the end of a rainbow?

Which letter is written at the start of “knee,” “knot” and “knight,” but you never hear it?

I sound exactly like a pretty thing that grows in the garden, but you bake cakes and bread with me. What am I?

There’s no honey and no stinger, but kids line up on a stage and spell words out loud one letter at a time. One wrong letter and you sit down. What am I?

Which two letters sit right in the middle of the word “middle”?

I’m the most-used letter in English. I appear twice in “letter” and three times in “eleven.” Which letter am I?

How many letters are in the alphabet?

How do you spell “cow” using thirteen letters?

Three words sound exactly the same. One means “in that place,” one means “belonging to them,” and one is short for “they are.” Spell all three.

“Racecar,” “kayak,” “level” and “noon” are all examples of me, because they read the same forward and backward. What am I?

Rearrange the letters of “listen” to make a word for how you should be in a library.

Rearrange the letters of “earth” to make a body part that beats all day and all night.

I’m the only number whose name has the same number of letters as the number itself. What number am I?

I’m the little mark that shows where letters are missing, like in “don’t,” “it’s” and “I’m.” What am I?

Why is the letter A like a flower?

Which word has three double letters in a row?

I’m a nine-letter word that starts with F and contains the vowels A, E, I, O and U exactly once each, in alphabetical order. What am I?

I’m a nine-letter word. Take away one letter at a time and I stay a real word at every step, all the way down to a single letter. I begin with “start.” What am I?

I’m a five-letter word. Take away my last four letters and I still sound exactly the same. What am I?

I’m the only number whose letters are in alphabetical order when you spell it out. What number am I?

Which word is spelled incorrectly in every dictionary?

I’m a common six-letter word with no A, E, I, O or U. Drummers and dancers have to keep me. What am I?

I’m an eight-letter word, but I have only one vowel, and it’s an E. Weightlifters spend hours building me. What am I?

I start with IS, end with AND, and have LA in the middle, but my S is silent. What am I?

Many grown-ups misspell me because I have a double C and a double M. Hotels do me for their guests. What word am I?