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Spell Bee Word: Bank


What does bank mean?

Word: Bank

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Bank means a place that keeps people's money safe. The land along the side of a river is also called a bank.

How do you spell bank?

Syllables: bank

Tricky part: The last sound is spelt with just a k, with no c in front of it as there is in back.

Watch out for: baank, banke

Memory tip: A bank is where money is kept, and k is for keep: that is the letter bank ends with.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. break the bank: To cost too much money. Example: "A small card for our teacher will not break the bank."

Bank in a sentence

Example 1: Papa went to the bank to open an account for me.

Example 2: We sat on the bank of the river and watched the boats.

Example 3: I drop my coins into a piggy bank.

Fun Fact

Bank comes from the Italian word banca, a bench. Long ago, money-lenders in Italian markets did their business sitting at benches.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) benk
b) bank
c) bannk
d) baink

Show answer

b) bank. Bank is short: b, a, then nk, with no extra letters.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

nkab

a) bakn
b) nabk
c) bnak
d) bank

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d) bank. Two choices do not start with ba; of the other two, only one ends with the sound you hear at the end.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

The bangk opens at ten in the morning.

a) ten
b) opens
c) morning
d) bangk

Show answer

d) bangk. There is no g in bank, even though the n sounds like ng.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What can you do at a bank?

a) save your money
b) buy vegetables
c) borrow storybooks
d) post a parcel

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a) save your money

2. We sat on the river bank. Where were we?

a) inside a big shop
b) in the middle of the river
c) near a bus stop
d) at the edge of the river

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d) at the edge of the river

Associated Words

More Class 2 Summer Spell Bee words starting with ba: balance, baseball, basin, backpack, bakery, bald

More words from this list

claim, electricity, gravity, kingfisher, ocean, rip, stack, vinegar

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