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Spell Bee Word: Cedar


What does cedar mean?

Word: Cedar

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Cedar means a tall tree with thin, needle-like leaves that stay green all year.

How do you spell cedar?

Syllables: ce - dar

Tricky part: The first letter sounds like s, but it is a c. That is why sedar is such a common slip.

Watch out for: sedar, seedar

Memory tip: A c before e usually says s, as in centre and cereal. Cedar follows the same rule.

Cedar in a sentence

Example 1: Tall trees like the cedar cover the slopes of Himachal Pradesh.

Example 2: A cedar stands at the end of our school drive.

Example 3: Grandpa keeps his old books in a cedar box.

Fun Fact

A green cedar appears in the middle of the flag of Lebanon.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

ced_r

a) o
b) a
c) u
d) i

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b) a. Dollar and sugar finish with the same vowel as this tree.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Our class planted a ceddar near the gate.

a) gate
b) planted
c) class
d) ceddar

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d) ceddar. Only one d stands in the middle of this tree's name.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) ceedar
b) ciedar
c) ceidar
d) cedar

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d) cedar. One plain e gives the long sound here.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would you find on a cedar branch?

a) mangoes
b) bananas
c) cones
d) coconuts

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c) cones

2. Clothes kept in a cedar chest smell pleasant. What gives them this smell?

a) the lock on the chest
b) the nails in the chest
c) the hinges of the chest
d) the wood of the chest

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d) the wood of the chest

Associated Words

More Class 2 Summer Spell Bee words starting with c: canary, claim, classify, creek, combine, correction

More words from this list

drive, grade, jasmine, mustard, Ramadan, space, tunnel, appear

Next steps

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