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Spell Bee Word: Barn


What does barn mean?

Word: Barn

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Barn means a large farm building where crops, animal food or animals are kept.

How do you spell barn?

Syllables: barn

Tricky part: Nothing comes after the n: there is no e at the end.

Watch out for: barne, barnn

Memory tip: Barn ends on its n, just like corn, a crop it often stores.

Barn in a sentence

Example 1: The cows stay in the barn when it rains.

Example 2: A big green tractor is parked in the barn.

Example 3: Our school trip ended with a visit to a big red barn.

Fun Fact

Barn comes from two Old English words that meant barley house, because barns were first used to store grain.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) baarn
b) barn
c) bahrn
d) bawrn

Show answer

b) barn. There is only one vowel letter in barn, and no h or w.

Word Chain

Complete the word sequence:

grain, sack, ____, farm

a) cow
b) barn
c) seed
d) flour

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b) barn. Each thing goes inside the next: grain fills a sack, sacks are stored in a barn, and the barn stands on a farm.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

ba_n

a) m
b) d
c) r
d) s

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c) r. Say barn slowly and you can hear the r.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

The farmer stores his wheet in the barn.

a) farmer
b) stores
c) wheet
d) barn

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c) wheet. Wheat is spelt with ea, the same as in eat.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose work needs a barn?

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

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d) a farmer

2. What is often stored in a barn?

a) hay
b) books
c) medicines
d) jewellery

Show answer

a) hay

Associated Words

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

More words from this list

classmate, enough, greeting, lamb, omelette, robin, stamp, waffle

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