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Missing Letter shows a word with a letter removed and asks you to supply it. Unlike a full anagram, the structure is intact — so the puzzle is about recognising a word from a partial pattern, which is much closer to how reading actually works.
A word appears with one letter replaced by a gap.
Work out which letter belongs there.
Type or select it.
Correct answers load the next word.
Your score is words completed.
Orthographic pattern completion — reconstructing a word from an incomplete visual pattern. It is the same process that lets you read text with typos in it without noticing.
Read what is there aloud with a pause at the gap. Speech often supplies the letter automatically.
Check the letters immediately either side. English has strong constraints on which letters can follow which.
Vowel gaps are usually easier than consonant gaps — if it is a consonant, expect to work harder.
If two letters both seem to fit, pick the more common word.
Yes — every puzzle is built so that only one letter makes a valid word.
It exercises recognition rather than production, so it helps less with spelling than writing the word out does.
They come from a standard English word list, so nothing obscure.
Vowels are heavily constrained by the surrounding consonants. Consonants have more plausible substitutes at any given position.