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Spell Bee Word: Basket


What does basket mean?

Word: Basket

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Basket means a container for carrying or keeping things, usually woven and often with a handle.

How do you spell basket?

Syllables: bas - ket

Tricky part: The second part is said quickly, so its vowel is easy to get wrong, and some children add a c before the k.

Watch out for: baskut, bascit

Memory tip: You take a basket to the market. Both words end in -ket, with no c before the k.

Basket in a sentence

Example 1: Nani put the mangoes in a big basket.

Example 2: The cat sleeps in a basket by the window.

Example 3: Bring the vegetable basket to the kitchen, please.

Fun Fact

Basketball got its name because the first goals, in 1891, were two peach baskets nailed up high.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) basket
b) bassket
c) baskket
d) baskett

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a) basket. Basket has no doubled letters at all.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

tekasb

a) basket
b) bsaket
c) basekt
d) bakset

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a) basket. Say basket in two beats and spell each beat in turn.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

b_sket

a) e
b) a
c) i
d) u

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b) a. The first part is bas, with the same a as in bag.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What might Dadi carry home from the market in her basket?

a) hot soup
b) wet paint
c) fresh fruit
d) a bucket of milk

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c) fresh fruit

2. What can be woven into a basket?

a) cane
b) glass
c) clay
d) stone

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a) cane

Associated Words

Words that start with bas: basin, baseball, basic, basketball

More words from this list

channel, display, frock, kettle, outside, roar, story, whistle

Next steps

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