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Spell Bee Word: Agency


What does agency mean?

Word: Agency

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Agency means a business or office that provides a service, such as a travel agency or a news agency.

Synonyms: office, bureau

How do you spell agency?

Syllables: a - gen - cy

Tricky part: The j sound is made by a soft g, as in gentle, and the vowel after the g is e.

Watch out for: ajency, agancy, agensey

Memory tip: An agency is a place where agents work. Agent and agency share their first four letters, a-g-e-n.

Agency in a sentence

Example 1: Papa booked our train tickets through a travel agency.

Example 2: The news agency sent photos of the flood to every newspaper.

Example 3: My aunt works at an advertising agency in London.

Fun Fact

NASA, the space agency of the United States, landed the first people on the Moon in 1969.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) manager
b) business
c) agensy
d) library

Show answer

c) agensy. The s sound in agency is made by a c, as in city.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

agencey

a) n
b) e
c) c
d) y

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b) e. The only e comes straight after the g, as in agent.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

cegany

a) legacy
b) energy
c) cagey
d) agency

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d) agency. Legacy needs an l, cagey is a letter short and energy needs an r, which leaves agency.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A travel agency helps people ____.

a) sell luggage
b) pack suitcases
c) book trips
d) drive taxis

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c) book trips

2. Who would most likely work for a news agency?

a) a cook
b) a reporter
c) a pilot
d) a nurse

Show answer

b) a reporter

Associated Words

Words that end in -ency: frequency, currency, tendency, emergency

Related words on the Spell Bee lists: bureau

More words from this list

capable, dependable, experience, impressed, merge, predictable, seepage, total

Next steps

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