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Spell Bee Word: Bucket


What does bucket mean?

Word: Bucket

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Bucket means a round container with a handle, used for carrying water, sand or milk.

How do you spell bucket?

Syllables: buck - et

Tricky part: The k sound in the middle is spelt c-k, as in duck.

Watch out for: bucet, buket

Memory tip: Drop a duck into the bucket: both words use c-k for the k sound.

Bucket in a sentence

Example 1: Fill the bucket with water for the plants.

Example 2: We built a sandcastle with a red bucket.

Example 3: Bhaiya carried a bucket of milk to the kitchen.

Fun Fact

Bucket comes from an old French word, buquet, which meant a tub or a pail.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) buckat
b) buckit
c) buckut
d) bucket

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d) bucket. Bucket ends in e-t, the way pocket and jacket do.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

tkubec

a) buckte
b) ubcket
c) bucket
d) bteuck

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c) bucket. Say buck-et in two beats and write each beat in turn.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

buckett

a) c
b) t
c) e
d) k

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b) t. Bucket has only one t, at the very end.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

b_cket

a) i
b) u
c) o
d) a

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b) u. The vowel after the b is the short u of bus.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which job needs a bucket the most?

a) reading a book
b) writing a letter
c) flying a kite
d) washing a car

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d) washing a car

2. A bucket holds more water than ____.

a) a cup
b) a tank
c) a well
d) a bathtub

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a) a cup

Associated Words

Words that end in -ket: blanket, cricket, supermarket

More words from this list

cross, fight, hobby, mother, purr, sleep, trick, annoyed

Next steps

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