Missing Letters Game

How this list was compiled: Own work, written for this site on 2026-09-19. Runs of four or five letters of the English alphabet with one or two letters left out: 26 runs of capital and small pairs (Aa Bb Cc), 26 runs of small letters, and 24 runs of five with two gaps. Wrong choices are nearby letters and look-alikes that are not already showing in the run. Checked: every right choice completes a run that is found in ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ, and no wrong choice does. Licence: own work

How this list was compiled: Own work, written for this site on 2026-09-19: 120 everyday words of three letters (consonant, vowel, consonant) with a clue written for each. Most have a short vowel, as in cat, bed, six, dog and sun; a few have a vowel followed by r (car, jar, tar, fir, fur). No pattern, such as _ u g or m a _, is used more than 3 times. Every question was tested on 2026-09-19: each of the four choices was put in the gap, and exactly one may spell a word. A wrong choice may not spell anything found in (1) web2, the list of Webster's Second International Dictionary of 1934 that ships with BSD and macOS, about 235,000 entries (its README, https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/share/dict/README, read 2026-09-19), together with the propernames file beside it; (2) the ENABLE word list made for word games, about 172,800 entries with plurals and verb forms (enable1.txt from https://github.com/dolph/dictionary, fetched 2026-09-19); (3) web2 after a plain ending is taken off; (4) lists of everyday short words that web2 lacks (box, mom, has), newer short words, short forms, first names and rare three-letter entries of tournament word lists. The macOS spelling checker gave a second opinion: on the spelling words its yes counted as a word, and on three-letter strings, where it also accepts short forms in capitals, every string it accepted was checked one by one. A gap was moved or the word dropped when any of the 26 letters would have spelled something rude. Licence: own work

How this list was compiled: Own work. The words and sentences come from this site's own 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade spelling lists, 50 from each grade, taken in turn from every list except contractions, sound-alike pairs, days and months. Where it can, the gap sits on the letters the word's list teaches. Every question was tested on 2026-09-19: each of the four choices was put in the gap, and exactly one may spell a word. A wrong choice may not spell anything found in (1) web2, the list of Webster's Second International Dictionary of 1934 that ships with BSD and macOS, about 235,000 entries (its README, https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/share/dict/README, read 2026-09-19), together with the propernames file beside it; (2) the ENABLE word list made for word games, about 172,800 entries with plurals and verb forms (enable1.txt from https://github.com/dolph/dictionary, fetched 2026-09-19); (3) web2 after a plain ending is taken off; (4) lists of everyday short words that web2 lacks (box, mom, has), newer short words, short forms, first names and rare three-letter entries of tournament word lists. The macOS spelling checker gave a second opinion: on the spelling words its yes counted as a word, and on three-letter strings, where it also accepts short forms in capitals, every string it accepted was checked one by one. A gap was moved or the word dropped when any of the 26 letters would have spelled something rude. Licence: own work