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Spell Bee Word: Brown


What does brown mean?

Word: Brown

Part of Speech: Adjective

Meaning: Brown means the colour of chocolate, wet soil and tree trunks.

How do you spell brown?

Syllables: brown

Tricky part: The o-w says ow, as in cow. Children sometimes write o-u, which looks right but is not.

Watch out for: broun, brone

Memory tip: The ow in brown is the same ow you see in cow and owl.

Brown in a sentence

Example 1: The bear has thick brown fur.

Example 2: I coloured the tree trunk brown.

Example 3: Her eyes are dark brown.

Fun Fact

You will not see brown in a rainbow, because brown is really a dark shade of orange.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

b_own

a) d
b) s
c) r
d) t

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c) r. Without the r you would have bown; brown needs b and r side by side.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

wbron

a) brnow
b) rbown
c) brown
d) bnrow

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c) brown. Keep the o-w pair together and the colour falls into place.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) purple
b) browen
c) orange
d) yellow

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b) browen. Browen has an extra e squeezed in before the n.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

The brown squirel ran up the tree.

a) tree
b) brown
c) squirel
d) ran

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c) squirel. Squirrel has a double r in the middle.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these is usually brown?

a) a ripe lemon
b) a glass of milk
c) a coconut shell
d) a lawn of grass

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c) a coconut shell

2. Which animal is usually brown?

a) a camel
b) a polar bear
c) a flamingo
d) a crow

Show answer

a) a camel

Associated Words

Words that start with bro: broad, brook, broom, brotherhood

More words from this list

create, feeling, helpful, moon, proud, skull, train, animal

Next steps

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