Apply a word transformation rule

An option that spells a real word is not more likely to be right: several of the rules in this family land on real words by chance. The wrong answers on this skill are built out of that, not out of random numbers, so it is worth naming out loud before your child meets it under time pressure.

Point at the next move rather than explaining the whole rule. Number the letters of the example word, then write the same numbers under the result. The order those numbers come out in is the rule.

The skill map draws the line here: One invariant transformation; excludes anagrams, compound joining, and word ladders. A question past that line is testing a different named verbal reasoning skill, which is worth knowing before you spend a week practising the wrong one.

The word strand holds 9 skills that are tested together, and the pages next to apply a word transformation rule are complete a word with a letter, find a hidden word and follow a word ladder. Each has its own exercise and its own link, and none of them needs an account.

Use Applying a Word Transformation Rule, embedded on this page. It is the exercise the skill map attaches to apply a word transformation rule, it runs in the browser with no account to make, nothing is scored, and nothing a child does here is recorded or sent anywhere. It also has its own link, so you can send it to a child without sending them anywhere else first.