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Spell Bee Word: Champion


What does champion mean?

Word: Champion

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Champion means a person or team that has won a competition, especially the top prize.

How do you spell champion?

Syllables: cham - pi - on

Tricky part: The last sound is unclear, so children often write ian or ien. The ending is ion.

Watch out for: champien, champiun, champian

Memory tip: Picture a champion with a lion's heart: champion and lion end with the same three letters, i-o-n.

Champion in a sentence

Example 1: Magnus Carlsen was world chess champion five times.

Example 2: Our class is the inter-school quiz champion this year.

Example 3: The champion lifted the trophy above her head.

Fun Fact

Champion comes from the Latin campus, an open field, because that was where contests were held long ago.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word: champion

a) winner
b) player
c) beginner
d) referee

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a) winner. A champion is the winner of a competition.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) champion
b) trophey
c) medel
d) victorie

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a) champion. Trophy ends in a plain y, medal has al, and victory ends in y.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Our school football team became the district chempion this year.

a) district
b) year
c) school
d) chempion

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d) chempion. The first beat is cham, with an a, as in camp.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

pinmocha

a) chmapion
b) cahmpion
c) chapmion
d) champion

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d) champion. The last three letters are the same as in lion.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Usain Bolt became an Olympic champion eight times. In which sport?

a) wrestling
b) badminton
c) running
d) weightlifting

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c) running

2. At the end of a tournament, a champion usually receives ____.

a) a ticket
b) a timetable
c) a trophy
d) a warning

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c) a trophy

Associated Words

Words that end in -ion: ambition, attention, vision, communication, celebration, position

More words from this list

designer, fierce, hurt, marsh, poetic, sigh, unhappy, apricot

Next steps

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