# What do you call a fish with no eye?

Source: https://silverapuzzles.com/riddles/what-do-you-call-a-fish-with-no-eye

A spelling joke dressed as an animal riddle. The missing “eye” is not an organ but a letter.

**Answer:** A fsh.

Take the I out of “fish” and you get “fsh”.

Hint: Spell it.

## How to think about it

1. A fish with no eye sounds like a sad biology question, but this is the funny category, so expect a pun.
2. Say “no eye” aloud: it sounds like “no I”.
3. Take the letter I out of the word f-i-s-h.
4. You are left with “fsh”, pronounced as a soft hiss.

## Why “a fsh” is the answer

Remove the letter I from “fish” and the word becomes “fsh”, which is the whole joke: “eye” and “I” sound the same, so a fish with no I is a fsh. The answer is funnier spoken than written because you have to try to pronounce it. It belongs to a family of jokes that delete letters from words.

## Common wrong answers

- **A blind fish.** A sensible answer, but the riddle is a pun on the letter I.
- **A cyclops fish.** A cyclops has one eye, and the riddle says none.