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Complete the word puzzles challenge you to spot missing letters and patterns, helping to sharpen problem-solving skills and build vocabulary in a fun way.

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Fascinating Fact:

The word facetious is unusual because it uses all the vowels in order a e i o u.

In 11 Plus Verbal Reasoning, complete the word activities test logical thinking and vocabulary knowledge. Pupils practise filling in missing letters to form correct and meaningful words.

Key Terms

Verbal reasoning: A type of test that uses words and language to check thinking skills.
Vocabulary: The collection of words a person knows and understands.
Puzzle: A problem designed to test knowledge or intelligence, often in a fun way.

For more insight into exam style, see our guide on 11 Plus sample questions for parents.

Frequently Asked Questions (Click to see answers)

What are complete the word puzzles?

Complete the word puzzles give you part of a word with missing letters. You must use your knowledge of spelling and vocabulary to fill in the blanks correctly.

How do complete the word puzzles help in the 11 Plus?

These puzzles build problem-solving skills and strengthen vocabulary, which are both useful for 11 Plus exams that test verbal reasoning and understanding of language.

What strategies can I use to solve complete the word puzzles?

Look for familiar word patterns, think about possible prefixes and suffixes, and check if the completed word makes sense in English.

Try These Related Quizzes

1 .

Our first few examples each offer you a choice of liquids ...

Pick the three-letter word which would complete the word in CAPITALS so it makes better sense.
Tea usually tastes best if you make it with fresh BING water.

TEA

OIL

INK

TAR

The water should be bOILing ... but then you need to let it brew, and cool, before drinking any

2 .

Pick the three-letter word which would complete the word in CAPITALS so it makes better sense.
The first railway engines and farm tractors were all powered by SM.

OAK

OIL

TEA

TAR

They were sTEAm engines, although of course their fireboxes also produced smoke (but that isn't spelt sm-OAK, unfortunately)

3 .

Pick the three-letter word which would complete the word in CAPITALS so it makes better sense.
I could tell you about certain places where you pay good money, yet the tea or coffee is almost always UNDRABLE.

TEA

POT

OIL

INK

'If all the sea were paper and all the sea were ink,
And all the trees were bread-and-cheese,
What should we have to drINK?'

4 .

Pick the three-letter word which would complete the word in CAPITALS so it makes better sense.
The heaviest thing I was carrying after my trip to the market was a great big fresh CABE.

POT

BAG

HIT

LAP

For once, the BAG is in the cabBAGe ... rather than the other way round!

5 .

Pick the three-letter word which would complete the word in CAPITALS so it makes better sense.
Once you've had a little practice at skating, you should find you glide along quite NLY.

FOG

ICE

RAT

FLY

No skater would get very far without some ICE (so that they slip along nICEly)

6 .

Pick the three-letter word which would complete the word in CAPITALS so it makes better sense.
According to the police, a surprisingly large number of people were involved in PTING the crime.

ROB

LIE

LOT

TEN

Yes, there were a LOT of pLOTters

7 .

Pick the three-letter word which would complete the word in CAPITALS so it makes better sense.
When pet owners go away on holiday there are usually COMPLIIONS.

PET

CAT

DOG

OWL

Trust the CAT to get involved in the compliCATions

8 .

Pick the three-letter word which would complete the word in CAPITALS so it makes better sense.
If the animal is STY, it is presumably either a tiger or a zebra.

PIG

HOG

SOW

RIP

You may have been put-off by the suggestion of a pigsty, but the animals mentioned in the Question are both stRIPy

9 .

Pick the three-letter word which would complete the word in CAPITALS so it makes better sense.
This magnificent boar looks likely to be the CPION at the Farmers' Show next week.

HOG

HAM

SOW

PIG

He may be a magnificent beast and potential cHAMpion ... but we can all guess what the butcher will make of him eventually, however sadly.
(Apologies to any readers who prefer, on whatever point of principle, to avoid the meat of pigs in any shape or form ... )

10 .

Pick the three-letter word which would complete the word in CAPITALS so it makes better sense.
They have made a COMMENLE effort to get the big new building to blend into its surroundings.

RAY

COD

DAB

MAN

The effort was commenDABle ... and so has yours been, we hope!

Author: Ian Miles (Linguist, ESL and RE Quiz Writer & Tutor)