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Spell Bee Word: Baggage


What does baggage mean?

Word: Baggage

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Baggage means the bags and suitcases you carry with you when you travel.

How do you spell baggage?

Syllables: bag - gage

Tricky part: The g is doubled; one g (bagage) is the usual slip.

Watch out for: bagage, baggauge

Memory tip: Bag doubles its g when a vowel ending is added, as in bagging and baggy.

Baggage in a sentence

Example 1: We waited half an hour for our baggage at Mumbai airport.

Example 2: The porter carried all our baggage up to the train.

Example 3: Please do not leave your baggage unattended.

Fun Fact

Baggage first meant the tents, tools and supplies that an army carried with it on the march.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) platfrom
b) suitcaise
c) passanger
d) baggage

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d) baggage. Baggage keeps its double g, while passenger, suitcase and platform are each misspelt in the others.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

The airline lost my uncle's baggege on his flight from London to Tokyo.

a) uncle's
b) airline
c) baggege
d) flight

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c) baggege. The word ends in age, like the bag it is built on plus age.

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word: baggage

a) passport
b) luggage
c) ticket
d) trolley

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b) luggage. Luggage is another name for the bags you travel with.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

gegabag

a) baggage
b) baggy
c) gaggle
d) bagging

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a) baggage. Bagging needs an i and an n, gaggle an l and baggy a y, so the seven letters make baggage.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Excess baggage means ____.

a) bags without name tags
b) more bags than you may carry
c) bags that are very light
d) bags left behind at home

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b) more bags than you may carry

2. At the airport, which item would NOT count as baggage?

a) a boarding pass
b) a trunk
c) a suitcase
d) a rucksack

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a) a boarding pass

Associated Words

Words that end in -age: image, voyage, seepage, storage, wreckage, discourage

More words from this list

creativity, electrician, guilt, lodge, performance, resist, suitable, weaver

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