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Spell Bee Word: Blacksmith


What does blacksmith mean?

Word: Blacksmith

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Blacksmith means a person who heats iron in a fire and hammers it into tools, horseshoes, gates and other things.

Synonyms: smith, ironsmith

How do you spell blacksmith?

Syllables: black - smith

Tricky part: Black needs ck in the middle; blaksmith and blacsmith each lose one of those letters.

Watch out for: blaksmith, blacsmith

Memory tip: The ck of black is like the clang of a hammer on iron: two letters, one sharp sound.

Blacksmith in a sentence

Example 1: The blacksmith's hammer rang out across the village square.

Example 2: Every few months the farmer took his plough to the blacksmith.

Example 3: In the museum we saw old tools made by a blacksmith.

Fun Fact

The black in blacksmith comes from iron, which was once called black metal because of the dark layer that forms on it in the fire.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Makeup

Choose the correctly spelt compound word:

a) shopkeepper
b) woodcuter
c) fisharman
d) blacksmith

Show answer

d) blacksmith. Only blacksmith is right: shopkeeper has one p, fisherman has er and woodcutter has tt.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

hitmskbacl

a) blacksmith
b) backstitch
c) blackbird
d) blackboard

Show answer

a) blacksmith. There is no r or d for blackbird or blackboard, and backstitch would need two t's, so the word is blacksmith.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

The village blacksmit heated the iron rod until it glowed orange.

a) blacksmit
b) heated
c) village
d) glowed

Show answer

a) blacksmit. Smith ends in th, so the h cannot be left off.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A blacksmith's workshop, with its fire for heating metal, is called a ____.

a) forge
b) loom
c) kiln
d) mill

Show answer

a) forge

2. Which tools would a blacksmith use most?

a) a hammer and anvil
b) a needle and thread
c) a pen and ink
d) a paintbrush and easel

Show answer

a) a hammer and anvil

Associated Words

More Class 4 Summer Spell Bee words starting with b: beehive, bride, boulder, bridegroom, beginning, biosphere

More words from this list

deactivate, enzyme, heir, mansion, plumber, round, tactful, wonderful

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