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Spell Bee Word: Aircraft


What does aircraft mean?

Word: Aircraft

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Aircraft means a machine that flies, carrying people or goods through the sky.

How do you spell aircraft?

Syllables: air - craft

Tricky part: The k sound after the r is spelt with a c. Children who know kite and king often write a k there.

Watch out for: airkraft, eircraft

Memory tip: Say to yourself: curly c, never kicking k, for the k sound in the middle.

Aircraft in a sentence

Example 1: The aircraft landed gently in Mumbai on time.

Example 2: We watched a small aircraft fly low over the fields.

Example 3: This big aircraft can carry two hundred passengers.

Fun Fact

The Wright brothers flew the first powered aeroplane in 1903. That first flight lasted only about 12 seconds.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) aercraft
b) aircraft
c) aircraf
d) airecraft

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b) aircraft. Aircraf drops the last letter, and the other two have the wrong vowels near the start.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

aircra_t

a) v
b) f
c) d
d) s

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b) f. The sound just before the last t is f, as in fish.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

aircrauft

a) f
b) u
c) t
d) a

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b) u. Only a plain a belongs there, with no u beside it.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

rfatacir

a) arircaft
b) airfcrat
c) aircraft
d) aicrraft

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c) aircraft. Aicrraft and arircaft scramble the opening, and airfcrat mixes up the ending.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these is an aircraft?

a) a ferry
b) a lorry
c) a helicopter
d) a tractor

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c) a helicopter

2. Who flies an aircraft?

a) a tailor
b) a farmer
c) a sailor
d) a pilot

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d) a pilot

Associated Words

More Class 1 Summer Spell Bee words starting with a: arm, ability, angry, always, avocado, account

More words from this list

bowl, confirm, false, guess, mare, policeman, sheep, Thursday

Next steps

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