There is a word, six letters it contains take away one letter and twelve is what remains what am i.
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Answer: The word DOZENS (remove one letter → DOZEN, which is twelve)
The trick here is that "twelve" isn't asking for a definition so much as a word, and that small shift is where the riddle hides its fun. DOZENS has six letters, satisfying the first clue plainly enough. But the real sleight of hand comes with "take away one letter" — your brain wants to picture scrambling or substituting, when really it just means dropping the final S. Once that S goes, DOZENS becomes DOZEN, and a dozen is, of course, twelve. So the riddle isn't playing with hidden synonyms or clever rearrangements at all; it's a quiet little pun on plurals. The misdirection is purely psychological: we expect wordplay to be complicated, so the simplicity of just removing a letter to reveal a smaller, still-meaningful word catches us off guard. That's the satisfying click.
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