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Question

Which option represents the correct order of the given words as they would appear in the English dictionary?
1 riddle
2 river
3 rightful
4 ring
5 risk

The correct answer is
1,3,4,5,2

Dictionary Order Explained

To find the correct dictionary order for the given words, we compare them letter by letter, starting from the beginning.

The words are:

  • 1 riddle
  • 2 river
  • 3 rightful
  • 4 ring
  • 5 risk

Step-by-Step Word Comparison

  1. First Letter: All words start with 'r'.
  2. Second Letter: All words have 'i' as the second letter.
  3. Third Letter Comparison: We now compare the third letter of each word:
    • riddle ('d')
    • river ('v')
    • rightful ('g')
    • ring ('n')
    • risk ('s')
  4. Alphabetical Order of Third Letters: Arranging these third letters alphabetically gives us: 'd', 'g', 'n', 's', 'v'.
  5. Ordering the Words: Based on the third letter order, the words are arranged as follows:
    • 'd' -> riddle (1)
    • 'g' -> rightful (3)
    • 'n' -> ring (4)
    • 's' -> risk (5)
    • 'v' -> river (2)

Final Correct Order

The correct sequence of the word numbers as they would appear in an English dictionary is 1, 3, 4, 5, 2.

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Important Questions from Dictionary or Alphabet Based

  1. 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

  2. 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? 

  3. 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?

  4. 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

  5. The position of how many letters will remain unchanged if each of the letter in the word ‘FINGER' is arranged in alphabetical order?  

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