Diminishing Returns

There is a common English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains an English word – from nine letters right down to a single letter. What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time?

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April 17th, 2012 | Category: Word Riddles |  Email This Riddle

2 guesses to Diminishing Returns

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• acorn

  May 4, 2012 at 8:24 AM

  Startling

• Dude

  May 4, 2012 at 3:36 PM

  Correct, Acorn.

  startling
  starting
  staring
  string
  sting
  sing
  sin
  in
  i

  You are today’s winner.