bee, dee, gee, jay, kay, ess, tee, you, vee, why, zee
Answers1) The word FIVE is a 4-letter word. Take away the 3 letters 'F', 'I' and the 'E', and you are left with 'V' which is the Roman numeral for the number five.2) The word ZERO is a 4-letter word, Take away the letters Z,E and R, and you are left with O, which is zero!Other words with similar characteristicsThere is a 5-letter word that, when you take four letters away, still has the same meaning: aitch -> hThere is also a 5-letter word that, when you take four letters away, still has the same sound: queue -> qThis is a three letter word, take two letters away and it sounds the same: why -> yAnd, last by no means least, there are two 3-letter words which, when you take two letters away, mean the same thing: zee (US) -> z, zed (UK) -> z.
a post man or a post office
aitch, queue
Take away the f and the e. That leaves IV, the Roman numeral for "four."
Startling. Take away the L and you get starting. Take away the second T and you get staring. Take away the A and you get string. Take away the R and you get sting. Take away the T and you get sing. Take away the G and you get sin. Take away the S and you get in. Take away the N and you get I.
The answer is the word empty. Take away the e and you have the letters mpty. Take away the p and you have the letters mty. Take away the y and you have the letters mt.
Weights- take away the 'w' and 's' and you get 'eight'- weights
A postman or postwoman (mail- if you are from the US). I am over 60, and this one was ancient when I was a kid!
Sixty... when u take 2 letters away you are left with 'six'
The second A has a long A sound. In the homophone "aweigh" it is the EIGH or more specifically the EI that has the long A sound.
Queue. Take away the four letters UEUE and you are left with Q.