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Spell Bee Word: Canary


What does canary mean?

Word: Canary

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Canary means a small bird, often kept as a pet in a cage, that is known for its sweet song.

How do you spell canary?

Syllables: ca - nar - y

Tricky part: Canary has no double letters: only one n and only one r.

Watch out for: cannary, canarry

Memory tip: A canary is a small, neat bird, and its name is neat too: no letter is doubled.

Canary in a sentence

Example 1: The canary sang in its cage by the window.

Example 2: Our neighbour has two canaries.

Example 3: Aman filled the canary's bowl with seeds.

Fun Fact

Wild canaries are a dull yellowish-green. Bird keepers bred the bright pet canaries from them over hundreds of years.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) canarie
b) canarey
c) canary
d) canari

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c) canary. The word ends in a plain y straight after the r.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

can_ry

a) a
b) i
c) o
d) e

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a) a. The middle sound is a, so the word reads ca-nar-y.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

rcanya

a) canary
b) carnay
c) cnaary
d) canray

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a) canary. Say each one; only one is the name of the little yellow songbird.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

The little canary pecked at a slice of gauva.

a) little
b) canary
c) pecked
d) gauva

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d) gauva. Guava starts with gu: g-u-a-v-a.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A canary is about the same size as a ____.

a) sparrow
b) crow
c) peacock
d) hen

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a) sparrow

2. Canaries got their name from a group of ____.

a) islands
b) forests
c) mountains
d) rivers

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a) islands

Associated Words

Words that end in -ary: primary, dictionary, February, anniversary, necessary, extraordinary

More words from this list

difficult, garland, icy, message, prize, sink, tough, admire

Next steps

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