How to solve Jumble word problems

Jumble words are asked in many competitive exams such as UPSC, SSC, Bank PO/Clerk and SSB Interview. This test judges the ability of an individual of arriving at an answer with given disorganized information.

Today, we will discuss a method by which it will become easier for you to answer jumble word questions.

If hint is given

In some exams, a hint will be given along with the question and you need to find the answer from that jumble word.

Example

Find the correct word from the given jumble word

Question: RITMUHP

Hint: It is another name of victory

Solution: If you have a good vocabulary then you can directly answer this question without using any trick or method. But let’s say you don’t have good vocabulary then what you need to do is write the same alphabets with different combinations i.e.

IRTUMHP

HUTIRMP

TMIRUHP

Now, as you see we get so close to answering. So using this method you can answer these kinds of questions. Please note we can’t help you if you don’t know that there is a word called TRIUMPH .

If no hint is given

Question: Find the Jumble word in the following

TRIUF

Solution: For answering this kind of question again we will use the same method. Lt’s first write various combination using the given alphabets.

UIRTF

IRUFT

FUTIR

Now from the last combination, one can easily find that the answer is FRUIT.

Some more examples are given below for practice.

Question: RIETG

Solution: GIERT

                    RGTIE

                    TGIRE

Clearly the answer is TIGRE.

Question: DRIFESN

Solution: FIDRENS

                ENSRIFD

                FRIENDS

Hence, the hidden word is FRIENDS in the given set of words.