9 Letter Word Riddle

What nine letter word in the English language is still a word when each of the nine letters is removed one by one? Take a few minutes to try and come up with a nine letter word that fits the bill, then watch the video.

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• words
• riddle
• puzzle
• think
• mindteaser

[aliluvstoflip]

i posted this first! u can even check!

[laurencelauren]

who the f**k cares. This is on other sites, too. Get a life!

[puma0713]

You can do the same thing with prickling:



prickling, pricking, picking, piking, piing (yes, it's a word), ping, pin, in, I.

[lonestarsound]

there's 60 seconds of my life I'll never get back

[emoscum11]

what about startling, starting, stating, sating, sting, sing, sin, in, i?

[livloveshorses1403]

That's good

[TheZoey102ful]

Its quite clever!

[GeneWeber]

Without viewing the solution in the video, I came up with three solutions:

1) stringers, stingers, stinger, singer, singe, sing, sin, in, I

2) shinglers, shingler, shingle, single, singe, sing, sin, in, I

3) splatters, platters, platter, latter, later, late, ate, at, a

[HockeyMan1040]

real nice how the thumbnail was a picture of the word

[invictusheart92]

@SkatingAtHome I thought the same thing. Top Gear ftw.

[paulandtal]

@FluffyBunny97s cerial lol did he kill tony the tiger or a crunchy nut its serial u nut

[gotatochigs314]

Here's one with 10 letters: strappings, strapping, trapping, rapping, raping, aping, ping, pin, in, I

[gotatochigs314]

@PRussell303 "Scrapings" is closer to meeting that requirement in that you never have to remove a letter from anywhere in the middle of the word (but you do have to take some from the beginning): scrapings, scraping, craping, raping, aping, ping, pin, in, I.

[neoge3k]

... And then you remove the 'I' and you're left with GAY!!!