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Word Formation Questions with Solutions

This is pure letter-accounting — can a target word be spelled using only the letters available in a given word, each used at most as many times as it actually appears? No shortcuts, just a careful letter-by-letter check. Here’s the approach, four fully worked examples, and a few to try yourself.

The approach, quickly

  • Go through the target word letter by letter, and for each one, check it appears in the source word — if even one letter is missing entirely, the answer is immediately "No".
  • Watch repeated letters carefully: if the target word needs a letter TWICE but the source word only has it ONCE, that’s also "No" — count occurrences, don’t just check presence.
  • Letters can be used in ANY order and don’t need to be adjacent in the source word — this isn’t about finding a substring, only about which letters (and how many of each) are available.
  • Extra, unused letters in the source word are irrelevant — the question is only whether the target word’s letters are fully covered, not whether every source letter gets used.

Worked examples

1. Using the letters of the word COMPUTER, can the word ROUTE be formed? (Each letter may be used only as many times as it appears in COMPUTER.)

Solution

  1. ROUTE needs: R, O, U, T, E — each once.
  2. COMPUTER contains: C, O, M, P, U, T, E, R — each of R, O, U, T, E appears at least once.

Answer: Yes

2. Using the letters of the word COMPUTER, can the word CORPSE be formed?

Solution

  1. CORPSE needs: C, O, R, P, S, E.
  2. COMPUTER contains: C, O, M, P, U, T, E, R — there is no letter S anywhere in COMPUTER.

Answer: No

3. Using the letters of the word ELEPHANT, can the word PLANET be formed?

Solution

  1. PLANET needs: P, L, A, N, E, T — each once.
  2. ELEPHANT contains: E, L, E, P, H, A, N, T — every required letter is present at least once (E appears twice in ELEPHANT, but PLANET only needs it once).

Answer: Yes

4. Using the letters of the word ELEPHANT, can the word TABLE be formed?

Solution

  1. TABLE needs: T, A, B, L, E.
  2. ELEPHANT contains: E, L, E, P, H, A, N, T — there is no letter B anywhere in ELEPHANT.

Answer: No

Try these yourself

Check each required letter (and its count) against the source word, then check against the answer.

1. Using the letters of the word GRANDFATHER, can the word FATHER be formed?

Answer: Yes

2. Using the letters of the word GRANDFATHER, can the word MOTHER be formed?

Answer: No

3. Using the letters of the word UNIVERSITY, can the word VISIT be formed?

Answer: Yes

Where this comes up

Word Formation is a regular topic in the Reasoning/General Intelligence section of every exam Pariksha Saathi covers — SSC CGL, SSC MTS, SSC CHSL, IBPS PO, IBPS Clerk, SBI PO and SBI Clerk.

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