Which of the following words will come first in the dictionary?
apple
All four words share the first two letters "ap", so we compare the third letter to decide dictionary order.
Third letters: apron → 'r', apple → 'p', aptitude → 't', apply → 'p'. The smallest in alphabetical order is 'p', which belongs to both apple and apply.
Between apple and apply, the first three letters "app" are identical, so compare the fourth letter: apple has 'l', apply has 'l' too — still tied. Compare the fifth letter: apple has 'e', apply has 'y'. Since 'e' comes before 'y', apple comes first.
Hence, the word that comes first in the dictionary is apple.
Important Questions from Dictionary or Alphabet Based
Select the option that represents the correct order of the given words as they would appear in an English dictionary.
1. Lesage
2. Laudatory
3. Laureate
4. Latitude
5. Legacy
6. Laudanum
7. Launder
Each vowel in the word “ETHICAL” is changed to the following letter in the English alphabetical series and each consonant is changed to the previous letter in the English alphabetical series. In the newly formed word, how many alphabets are there in the English alphabetical series between the alphabet which is 3rd from the left and 1st from the right?
All the alphabets in the word ‘DICTIONARY’ are arranged in the alphabetical order. How many alphabets are there in the English alphabetical series between the alphabet which is fourth from the left end and the one which is second from the right end in the newly formed letter-cluster?
Select the combination of numbers so that the jumbled letters arranged accordingly will form a meaningful English word.
O H R E M T
1 2 3 4 5 6
The position of how many letters will remain unchanged if each of the letter in the word ‘FINGER' is arranged in alphabetical order?
