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Spell Bee Word: Building

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What does building mean?

Word: Building

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Building means a place with walls and a roof, such as a house, a school or an office.

How do you spell building?

Syllables: build - ing

Tricky part: There is a silent u after the b. We say bilding, but we write b-u-i-l-d.

Watch out for: bulding, buliding

Memory tip: Builders Use Iron: the first letters, b, u and i, give the start of the word, with the u you do not hear.

Building in a sentence

Example 1: Our school building has three floors.

Example 2: We could see the tall building from the train.

Example 3: The lift in our building was not working today.

Fun Fact

When the Burj Khalifa in Dubai opened in 2010, it became the tallest building in the world, at about 828 metres.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) hospital
b) library
c) factory
d) buiding

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d) buiding. Build has an l before the d, and building keeps it.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

buildiing

a) l
b) u
c) n
d) i

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d) i. The ending ing has just one i, so one of the two i's together must go.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

dligbnui

a) bliuding
b) buildign
c) buidling
d) building

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d) building. Say each choice aloud: three of them cannot be read as a real word.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these is NOT a building?

a) a library
b) a hospital
c) a bridge
d) a museum

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c) a bridge

2. In a tall building, the floors are joined by ____ that you climb.

a) ladders
b) poles
c) ropes
d) stairs

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d) stairs

Associated Words

Words that end in -ding: snowboarding, skateboarding, outstanding

More words from this list

cushion, fried, honeybee, manager, planet, shape, telescope, worst

Next steps

How to participate in CREST International Spell Bee

The CREST International Spell Bee (CSB) is conducted in two editions – CREST International Spell Bee - Summer (CSB) and CREST International Spell Bee - Winter (CSBW) – giving students across the globe an opportunity to showcase and enhance their spelling proficiency. Designed for young learners from Senior KG to Class 8, the competition focuses on word-building, pronunciation, and vocabulary enrichment, helping students develop strong linguistic skills.

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