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Spell Bee Word: Bean


Basic Details

Word: Bean

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: A seed, or a long pod with seeds inside, that we cook and eat. Rajma, chana and green beans are all kinds of beans.

Sounds like: been (a form of be, as in I have been to Goa)

How to Spell Bean

Syllables: bean

Tricky part: The ee sound is written ea, not ee. Writing been gives a different word altogether.

Watch out for: beane, beene, bein

Memory tip: Think of eating beans: the ea in eat is the same ea in bean.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. full of beans: lively and full of energy Example: "After his nap, my little brother was full of beans and would not sit still."

Usage Examples

Example 1: Mummy soaked the beans overnight to make rajma.

Example 2: I planted a bean seed in a cup and it sprouted in four days.

Example 3: Please pass me the bowl of green beans.

Fun Fact

Coffee beans are not true beans at all. They are the seeds found inside the small red fruit of the coffee plant.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) raddish
b) tomatoe
c) bean
d) spinnach

Show answer

c) bean. Bean takes ea; tomato needs no e, and spinach and radish have no double letters.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

nbae

a) bean
b) bnea
c) baen
d) eban

Show answer

a) bean. Start with b, then the ea pair, and finish with n.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

beaan

a) a
b) b
c) e
d) n

Show answer

a) a. Bean has only one a, sitting after the e.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these is a bean?

a) potato
b) rajma
c) rice
d) apple

Show answer

b) rajma

2. Choose the sentence that uses bean correctly.

a) We bean late today.
b) The bean plant climbed up the stick.
c) She bean very kind.
d) I have bean to Delhi.

Show answer

b) The bean plant climbed up the stick.

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Next steps

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