Spell Bee Word: Arrange

What does arrange mean?

Word: Arrange

Part of Speech: Verb

Meaning: Arrange means to put things in a neat order, or to plan something ahead.

Synonyms: organise, sort, plan

Antonyms: jumble

How do you spell arrange?

Syllables: ar - range

Tricky part: There are two r's after the a. Drop one and you get arange, a very common mistake.

Watch out for: arange, arrenge, arrang

Memory tip: Two r's for the two neat rows you make when you arrange chairs for assembly.

Arrange in a sentence

Example 1: Please arrange the books by size.

Example 2: Mummy arranged the flowers in a brass pot.

Example 3: Our teacher arranged a trip to the planetarium.

Fun Fact

Ikebana is the Japanese art of arranging flowers, and it has been practised for hundreds of years.

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Word Connection

Choose the antonym of the word:

arrange

a) fold
b) build
c) carry
d) scatter

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d) scatter. To scatter things is to throw them about, the opposite of setting them out neatly.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:

arr_n_e

a) a, g
b) e, j
c) e, g
d) a, j

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a) a, g. The end of arrange is spelt like range.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

negrara

a) arrnage
b) arrange
c) arragne
d) arraneg

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b) arrange. Two r's come straight after the first a; the other letters fall into place after them.

Word Makeup

Choose the suffix that completes the word:

arrange

a) mente
b) mint
c) ment
d) mant

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c) ment. Arrange keeps its final e before ment: arrangement.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Arranging numbers from the smallest to the biggest is called ____ order.

a) alphabetical
b) reverse
c) ascending
d) descending

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c) ascending

2. What do people often arrange in a vase?

a) sunlight
b) flowers
c) rain
d) thunder

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b) flowers

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