If COLD is coded as DPME, select appropriate code for GIVEN.

In an alphabet letter-coding puzzle, every letter of the source word is replaced by the letter a fixed number of positions ahead of it in the English alphabet (A = 1, B = 2, ..., Z = 26). Once that fixed shift is found from the example pair given in the question, the same shift is applied to every letter of the new word — no letter is treated differently.

First find the shift from the given example, COLD → DPME:

1. C → D: a shift of +1 position

2. O → P: a shift of +1 position

3. L → M: a shift of +1 position

4. D → E: a shift of +1 position

Every letter of COLD moves forward by exactly one position, so the rule is: shift each letter one step forward in the alphabet.

Now apply the same +1 shift to every letter of GIVEN:

1. G → H

2. I → J

3. V → W

4. E → F

5. N → O

Reading the shifted letters in order gives the code HJWFO.

Cross-check: shifting each letter of HJWFO one position back in the alphabet (H → G, J → I, W → V, F → E, O → N) reproduces GIVEN exactly, and the result keeps the same letter count (5) as GIVEN — confirming the code.