Strengthlessness
These brain teasers rely on your ability to recognize groups of common attributes. For each of these puzzles you'll need to figure out why the words or letters are grouped as they are. Sometimes you will be asked to pick the odd-one-out or to place a new word into the correct group.
Which word does not belong?
selflessness, selfishness, strengthlessness, defenselessness
Answer
Selfishness, all the other words use only one vowel
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einat16  
Jun 28, 2002
| and it is also the only one not ending with "lessness" |
Mogmatt16  
Jul 04, 2002
| all the others use just E and that uses I and E. Also, you could say strengthlessness because it has no F in it. |
cs526columbia
Jul 09, 2002
| but strengthlessness is the only word without "F" - do it doesn't belong if you use that rule |
dewtell 
Aug 09, 2002
| Defenselessnes is the only word not beginning with "s"
(and it's also misspelled, although I assume that's a typo).
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Gmoney-Gdog
Nov 27, 2002
| defenselaesnes was spelled with only 1 s at the end in stesad of 2, so that does not belong also it does'nt start with an s. |
Gmoney-Gdog
Nov 27, 2002
| sorry 'bout the misspells. typo |
smarty_blondy 
Sep 13, 2005
| I though "defenselessnes", since it is the only one that starts with a D. For a letter-type teaser the choice of words wasn't the best, but i had fun with it never the less. Keep them coming.   |
Sunrose
Sep 23, 2005
| I was thinking the same as smarty was. But all in all, still a good teaser. |
Hrsemn4
Jul 16, 2007
| The answer "uses only one vowel" is very misleading. That portrays that each word only contains 1 vowel, not that it uses specifically ONE vowel. Consider a rewrite please |
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