Top 50+ Fun And Challenging Spelling Bee Riddles For Kids & Adults

Top Riddles to Challenge Your Spelling Bee Skills

I start with a P, end with an E, and have thousands of letters. What am I?
Answer: Post Office

I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
Answer: A joke

I have keys but open no locks. I have space but no room. I have a face but no eyes. What am I?
Answer: A keyboard

What word is spelled incorrectly in every dictionary?
Answer: Incorrectly

What has words but never speaks?
Answer: A book

I am a word of letters three, add two and fewer there will be. What am I?
Answer: Few

What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
Answer: A teapot

I go in hard, come out soft, and am never the same. What am I?
Answer: Chewing gum

I have many teeth but cannot bite. What am I?
Answer: A comb

I am a 4-letter word; if you take away my first letter, I still sound the same. What am I?
Answer: Queue
What English word has three consecutive double letters?
Answer: Bookkeeper
I have wings and I can fly, I can be found in the classroom, what am I?
Answer: A fly (as in the insect)
I jump when I walk and sit when I stand. What am I?
Answer: A kangaroo
What is full of holes but still holds water?
Answer: A sponge
I have branches, but no fruit, trunk, or leaves. What am I?
Answer: A bank
I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released. What am I?
Answer: Pencil lead
I go all around the world but never leave the corner. What am I?
Answer: A stamp
I am found in the sea, I am caught and never thrown. What am I?
Answer: A fish
I can fly without wings. I can cry without eyes. Whenever I go, darkness flies. What am I?
Answer: A cloud

I am a word that starts with N and ends with E, yet I can make students fidget with glee. What am I?
Answer: Nerve
I’m tall when I’m young, and short when I’m old. What am I?
Answer: A candle
What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
Answer: A stamp
I contain two U’s, one R, and two T’s. What am I?
Answer: A future
I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest man can’t hold me for long. What am I?
Answer: Breath
What can you catch but not throw?
Answer: A cold
I have a neck but no head. What am I?
Answer: A bottle
You can hold me in your hand, but I can fill a room. What am I?
Answer: A light bulb
I can sizzle like bacon, I am made with an egg, I have plenty of backbone but I lack a body. What am I?
Answer: A snake
What creates a time but has no hand?
Answer: A calendar

I am what you do whenever you learn something new. What am I?
Answer: Study
I can be long, short, up, down, or even round. What am I?
Answer: A line
I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
Answer: A joke
What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age
I am found in the sky, but I am not a bird. What am I?
Answer: A cloud
You see me once in June, twice in November, but not at all in May. What am I?
Answer: The letter “e”
What is as light as a feather, yet even the world’s strongest man couldn’t hold it for long?
Answer: Breath
What begins with an E but only contains one letter?
Answer: An envelope
What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Answer: Silence
What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
Answer: A piano

I’m found in the ocean, but never get wet. What am I?
Answer: A map
I’m light and can fall, but I have no weight. What am I?
Answer: A feather
I can fill a room, but I take up no space. What am I?
Answer: Light
What has 13 hearts but no other organs?
Answer: A deck of cards
I have a face and two hands, but no arms or legs. What am I?
Answer: A clock
I’m taken from a mine and shut up in a wooden case. What am I?
Answer: Pencil lead
I am full of holes, but still I hold water. What am I?
Answer: A sponge
What begins and has no end, yet ends all things?
Answer: Death
I have branches, yet I have no leaves. What am I?
Answer: A bank
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Answer: Footsteps

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