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Spell Bee Word: Cart


What does cart mean?

Word: Cart

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Cart means a small wagon with wheels that is pushed or pulled to move things from place to place.

Sounds like: kart (a small, low racing car, as in go-kart)

How do you spell cart?

Syllables: cart

Tricky part: Cart starts with c, not k: kart is a different word, the small racing car in go-kart. Leave out the r and it turns into cat.

Watch out for: crat, catr

Memory tip: A go-kart races with a k, but the cart a vegetable seller pushes starts with c.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. put the cart before the horse: To do things in the wrong order. Example: "Wearing shoes before socks is putting the cart before the horse."

Cart in a sentence

Example 1: The vegetable seller pushed his cart down our lane.

Example 2: The farmer loaded sacks of rice onto his cart.

Example 3: Grandpa mended the broken wheel of the cart.

Fun Fact

In British shops you push a trolley; Americans call the same thing a shopping cart.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) caart
b) caert
c) cahrt
d) cart

Show answer

d) cart. Cart has a single a, with nothing between it and the r.

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word:

cart

a) wheel
b) horse
c) road
d) wagon

Show answer

d) wagon. A wagon is a cart, often a big one pulled by an animal.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

tarc

a) cart
b) tacr
c) acrt
d) ctar

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a) cart. Begin with the c, and the other three letters follow in the order you hear them.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

cartt

a) c
b) a
c) r
d) t

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d) t. Cart ends with a single t.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In many Indian villages, which animal pulls a cart?

a) a rabbit
b) a bullock
c) a peacock
d) a parrot

Show answer

b) a bullock

2. Most carts have ____ wheels.

a) ten or twelve
b) only one
c) two or four
d) eight or nine

Show answer

c) two or four

Associated Words

More Class 1 Summer Spell Bee words starting with ca: cabin, calm, capital, cage, caravan, caw

More words from this list

define, food, jeans, nose, rice, spine, waiter, badger

Next steps

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