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Spell Bee Word: Bleach


What does bleach mean?

Word: Bleach

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Bleach means a strong liquid used for cleaning and for making cloth whiter.

How do you spell bleach?

Syllables: bleach

Tricky part: The long ee sound is spelt ea, so bleech is the slip to watch for.

Watch out for: bleech, bleich

Memory tip: Bleach helps you clean, and both words carry ea in the middle.

Bleach in a sentence

Example 1: Amma added a little bleach to the bucket to wash the white bedsheets.

Example 2: The label on the bottle says how much bleach to add to each wash.

Example 3: After a wash with bleach, the old towels looked white again.

Fun Fact

Long ago, people whitened linen by spreading it on grass in the sunshine for days, and these fields were called bleaching greens.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell Spies

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) brush
b) towell
c) sponge
d) bucket

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b) towell. A towel ends with a single l.

Spellacadabra

Choose the correct option to make a meaningful word:

blea____

a) che
b) sh
c) tch
d) ch

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d) ch. It ends with the two letters you hear at the end of beach.

Jumble Tumble

Choose the correct sequence of the jumbled letters to form a meaningful word:

lchbea 123456

a) 416523
b) 415623
c) 415632
d) 326514

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b) 415623. Arranged as 4, 1, 5, 6, 2, 3, the jumble becomes the cleaning liquid.

Word Champ

Which of the words cannot be made using the letters in the given word?

bleach

a) cable
b) lace
c) beach
d) bell

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d) bell. Bell finishes with ll; bleach can lend only one l.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these would you most likely wash with a little bleach?

a) a new storybook
b) a stained white shirt
c) a wooden cricket bat
d) a leather school bag

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b) a stained white shirt

2. Bleach takes colour out of cloth. What could a drop of it do to a blue shirt?

a) make it smell of flowers
b) leave a pale patch
c) make it much thicker
d) turn it dark green

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b) leave a pale patch

Associated Words

More Class 3 Winter Spell Bee words starting with b: buttercup, bough, brief, border, being, berth

More words from this list

cocoon, doorman, glum, ketchup, ointment, selfie, stumble, vessel

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