Spell Bee Word: Apartment

What does apartment mean?

Word: Apartment

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Apartment means a set of rooms for living in, usually on one floor of a larger building. In British English this is usually called a flat.

Synonyms: flat

How do you spell apartment?

Syllables: a - part - ment

Tricky part: There is only one p. Students often double it, perhaps because appear and apply have two.

Watch out for: appartment, apartement, appartmant

Memory tip: An apartment is one part of a big building, and the word part sits inside it.

Apartment in a sentence

Example 1: We live in an apartment on the sixth floor.

Example 2: The new apartment has a balcony that faces the park.

Example 3: All the children in our apartment block play cricket together in the evenings.

Fun Fact

Apartment came into English from the French appartement, which is why some students slip an extra e into the middle.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) bilding
b) balcany
c) apartment
d) corrider

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Our cousins moved into a new apartmant near the metro station.

a) near
b) apartmant
c) station
d) cousins

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

taprtemna

a) apartment
b) appointment
c) parliament
d) temperament

Multiple Choice Questions

1. An apartment is ____.

a) a shop on a busy street
b) a hall used for weddings
c) an office near a school
d) a home inside a larger building

2. People in an apartment block usually share ____.

a) their front doors
b) their bedrooms
c) their kitchens
d) the lift and stairs