Male and Female Riddle

There’s a word where the first two letters signify a male, the first three signify a female, the first four signify a great man, and the whole word means a great woman. Do you know it? This is part of a complete episode.

Transcript of “Male and Female Riddle”

Grant, I have another riddle for you.

Okay.

There is a word in the English language in which the first two letters signify a male. The first three letters signify a female, the first four signify a great man, and the whole word signifies a great woman.

Wow.

What is the word?

Don’t know.

What is it?

A heroine.

The word is heroine.

Heroine.

H-E-R-O-I-N-E.

Yes.

First two letters are he, then her, then hero, and then heroine.

Nice.

That’s a very good one.

I love it.

Yeah, that’s a tough one, right?

That is a tough one.

We await your riddles.

Try us.

See if you can stump us.

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