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Spell Bee Word: Button


What does button mean?

Word: Button

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Button means a small round piece sewn onto clothes that you push through a hole to fasten them. It is also a small part of a machine that you press to make it work.

How do you spell button?

Syllables: but - ton

Tricky part: The t is doubled in the middle, yet you hear only one t, so buton is a common slip.

Watch out for: buton, butten

Memory tip: Picture a shirt done up with two buttons side by side: those are the two t's in the middle.

Button in a sentence

Example 1: Press the green button to start the fan.

Example 2: Grandma keeps spare buttons in an old biscuit tin.

Example 3: Rohan could not fasten the top button of his kurta.

Fun Fact

Some of the oldest buttons ever found were worn as decoration, long before people used buttons to hold clothes together.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) sleve
b) pockit
c) colar
d) button

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d) button. Pocket ends in et, collar has a double l, and sleeve has ee in the middle.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

tobunt

a) button
b) buttno
c) bunott
d) bottun

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a) button. Start with the b, and keep the two t's together in the middle.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

buttone

a) e
b) o
c) n
d) t

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a) e. Nothing comes after the n; the word stops there.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Mum sewed a shiny new buttan onto my school shirt.

a) shirt
b) sewed
c) buttan
d) shiny

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c) buttan. The last part of the word is said lightly, but it is spelt with an o.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these would you most likely fasten with a button?

a) a sock
b) a belt
c) a shirt
d) a scarf

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c) a shirt

2. Asha presses the button next to the lift. What does she want to happen?

a) the door to lock
b) music to play
c) the lift to come
d) the lights to go off

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c) the lift to come

Associated Words

More Class 3 Summer Spell Bee words starting with bu: bush, buckle, bushy, burrow

More words from this list

costume, excite, handsome, leaflet, paintbrush, ruler, textbook, alive

Next steps

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