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Spell Bee Word: Bicycle


What does bicycle mean?

Word: Bicycle

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Bicycle means a machine with two wheels that you ride by pushing pedals with your feet.

How do you spell bicycle?

Syllables: bi - cy - cle

Tricky part: The end is -cle, though it sounds like kul. Children often write -kel or -cal.

Watch out for: bicykel, bicycal

Memory tip: A bicycle ends just like circle: c, l, e. Think of its round wheels.

Bicycle in a sentence

Example 1: Ravi rides his bicycle to school.

Example 2: My bicycle has a red seat and a basket.

Example 3: Didi taught me to ride a bicycle in the park.

Fun Fact

The first bicycles, made in the 1810s, had no pedals. Riders pushed along the ground with their feet.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) bysycle
b) bisycle
c) bycycle
d) bicycle

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d) bicycle. Bi, meaning two, starts the word, and the s sound after it is spelt c.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

clyiceb

a) bycicle
b) bicycle
c) bciycle
d) biyccle

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b) bicycle. Fix the -cle ending first, then build the start in front of it.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Anu got a new bicicle on her birthday.

a) birthday
b) got
c) new
d) bicicle

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d) bicicle. The middle of bicycle is spelt with a y, as in cycle.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A bicycle has two wheels. What do we call one with three wheels?

a) a unicycle
b) a tricycle
c) a scooter
d) a motorcycle

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b) a tricycle

2. What do you ring on a bicycle to warn people on the road?

a) the pedal
b) the chain
c) the brake
d) the bell

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d) the bell

Associated Words

More Class 1 Summer Spell Bee words starting with bi: biscuit, bitter, bison

More words from this list

circus, driver, glad, lemon, peacock, school, talk, yellow

Next steps

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