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Spell Bee Word: Cancel


What does cancel mean?

Word: Cancel

Part of Speech: Verb

Meaning: Cancel means to say that something already planned will not happen.

Synonyms: call off

How do you spell cancel?

Syllables: can - cel

Tricky part: The ending is the trap: children turn it round and write le, as in uncle and handle.

Watch out for: cancle, cancil

Memory tip: E comes before L in the alphabet, and it comes before l at the end of this word too.

Cancel in a sentence

Example 1: Rain forced the school to cancel the sports day.

Example 2: Please cancel my order for the blue bag.

Example 3: We had to cancel our trip to Ooty when Papa could not get leave.

Fun Fact

The word goes back to a Latin word for crossing something out with lines that looked like a lattice, the way a clerk might strike through a page. In British English the l doubles in cancelled and cancelling.

Practise the CREST Way

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

nlaecc

a) canvas
b) candle
c) cancel
d) castle

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c) cancel. Candle, canvas and castle have only one c each, but the jumble has two.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:

_an_el

a) k, s
b) c, s
c) k, c
d) c, c

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d) c, c. Both gaps take the same letter, one hard and one soft.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

canncel

a) l
b) e
c) n
d) c

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c) n. One n comes before the second c.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) rescedule
b) cancel
c) anounce
d) postpon

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b) cancel. Postpone ends in e, reschedule has an h after the c, and announce has a double n.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The match has been cancelled. What happens next?

a) It runs for longer
b) It has more players
c) It begins early
d) Nobody plays it

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d) Nobody plays it

2. Which of these can you cancel?

a) the height of a hill
b) the colour of the sky
c) the length of a river
d) a booking at a hotel

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d) a booking at a hotel

Associated Words

Words that start with can: candidate, canal, candlestick, canoe, candidacy, canary

More words from this list

demonstrate, expensive, import, menace, precede, seasoning, tornado, acorn

Next steps

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