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Spell Bee Word: Celery


What does celery mean?

Word: Celery

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Celery means a vegetable with long, pale green, crunchy stalks that can be eaten raw or cooked in soups.

How do you spell celery?

Syllables: cel - er - y

Tricky part: The middle is er, not ar. Do not mix it up with salary, which only sounds close.

Watch out for: celary, salery

Memory tip: The middle beat sounds like her and is spelt the same way, e-r.

Celery in a sentence

Example 1: Mummy added chopped celery to the vegetable soup.

Example 2: A celery stick makes a loud crunch when you bite it.

Example 3: Rabbits at the farm nibbled on celery leaves.

Fun Fact

A celery stalk is about 95 percent water.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) cabbage
b) spinach
c) radish
d) selery

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d) selery. The s sound at the start of celery is made by a soft c.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

lyecer

a) eclery
b) lecery
c) celery
d) cleery

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c) celery. Six letters in three beats; the middle beat sounds like her.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

cellery

a) e
b) y
c) r
d) l

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d) l. Celery has a single l after the c.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letters to form a word:

c_ler_

a) e, i
b) i, y
c) a, y
d) e, y

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d) e, y. Celery opens with c-e and ends in a plain y.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which list has only vegetables?

a) celery, carrot, peas
b) celery, mango, peas
c) celery, grape, fig
d) celery, apple, plum

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a) celery, carrot, peas

2. Salary sounds a lot like celery. What does salary mean?

a) money paid for work
b) a kind of soup
c) a school subject
d) a green vegetable

Show answer

a) money paid for work

Associated Words

glorystormycelebrationcharitytiny
autumnsmiledelightachievementcoach

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