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Spell Bee Word: Chatter


What does chatter mean?

Word: Chatter

Part of Speech: Verb

Meaning: Chatter means to talk quickly and for a long time about small, unimportant things. Teeth chatter when they knock together from cold.

Synonyms: prattle, chat

How do you spell chatter?

Syllables: chat - ter

Tricky part: Chat gets a double t when an ending is added, so chatter has tt in the middle.

Watch out for: chater, chatering

Memory tip: When a short word like chat ends in one vowel and one consonant, double the consonant before an ending: chat, chatted, chatting, chatter.

Chatter in a sentence

Example 1: The girls chattered all the way home from the fair.

Example 2: My teeth chattered as we waited for the train in Zurich.

Example 3: We could hear the chatter of monkeys in the trees above our house.

Fun Fact

Teeth chatter when we shiver. The jaw muscles twitch fast to make heat, and that knocks the teeth together.

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Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word: chatter

a) babble
b) silence
c) shout
d) whisper

Show answer

a) babble. To babble is to talk on and on without much sense, just like chatter.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) chatter
b) mumbel
c) giggel
d) stammar

Show answer

a) chatter. Mumble and giggle both end in le, and stammer has an e before its r, so chatter is the only word with no slip.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

During the power cut, the children sat in the corridor and began to chattar about the school trip.

a) corridor
b) trip
c) chattar
d) children

Show answer

c) chattar. Chatter ends the same way as butter and letter, with er.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A chatterbox is someone who ____.

a) talks all the time
b) listens all the time
c) sings all the time
d) laughs all the time

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a) talks all the time

2. The teacher said, Stop that chatter at the back. What were the children at the back doing?

a) laughing at a joke
b) copying the homework
c) talking to each other
d) throwing paper balls

Show answer

c) talking to each other

Associated Words

Words that end in -ter: disaster, carpenter, computer, oyster, polyester, reporter

Related words on the Spell Bee lists: prattle

More words from this list

disallow, firewall, innocent, misunderstand, priestess, signature, twirl, airborne

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