Eliminate five letters from the word below to find one familiar word in the English language:
FHIEVLEILCEOTPTTEERRS
My firts thought was HELICOPTERS but that would need to have more than 5 letters eliminated.
Thank you for using the Jiskha Homework Help Forum. First of all, list all the vowels in one column and then all the consonants. That will make it easier to see what you might eliminate!
Sra
Now you have 21 letters total, but you are to subtract 5, so you will end up with one word with 16 letters. There are 8 vowels and 13 consonants.
vowels: eeeee ii o
consonants: c f h l l p r r s t t t v
If I have time later, I'll come back to this!
Sra
I thought HELICOPTERS too
Eliminate the FIVE LETTERS
the letters from FIVE LETTERS, take those out and you get ..
To find a familiar English word by eliminating five letters from the given word "FHIEVLEILCEOTPTTEERRS," we can follow these steps:
1. Break down the given word into individual letters: F-H-I-E-V-L-E-I-L-C-E-O-T-P-T-T-E-E-R-R-S.
2. Identify groups of letters that can potentially form words when rearranged. In this case, we have a few options, such as "ELECTRIC" and "TREE."
3. Look for combinations of the remaining letters that can form a familiar English word when five letters are eliminated. Considering the remaining letters: F-H-I-V-L-O-P-S, we notice that by removing the letters "V," "O," "P," "S," and "F," we are left with the letters H-I-L.
4. Rearrange the remaining letters (H-I-L) to find a familiar English word. In this case, the letters can be rearranged to form the word "HIL," which means "a small mound or hill."
Therefore, by eliminating the letters "V," "O," "P," "S," and "F" from the original word, we can form the familiar English word "HIL."