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Spell Bee Word: Cherry


What does cherry mean?

Word: Cherry

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Cherry means a small, round, soft red fruit that grows on a tree and has a stone in the middle.

How do you spell cherry?

Syllables: cher - ry

Tricky part: There are two r's in the middle; children often drop one when they write fast.

Watch out for: chery, cherrie, cherey

Memory tip: Cherries often hang in pairs from one stem; let the pair remind you of the two r's.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. the cherry on the cake: a small extra thing that makes something good even better Example: "Winning the match was great, and the free ice cream was the cherry on the cake."

Cherry in a sentence

Example 1: Nana bought a box of cherries from the hill market.

Example 2: There is a red cherry on top of my pastry.

Example 3: The cherry stone is too hard to bite.

Fun Fact

In Japan, crowds gather each spring to watch cherry trees blossom, a custom called hanami.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) bluberry
b) cherry
c) straberry
d) mulbarry

Show answer

b) cherry. Strawberry keeps its w, blueberry keeps the e of blue, and mulberry has er in the middle.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letters to form a word:

ch_rr_

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

Show answer

c) e, y. Cherry has an e after the ch and ends in a plain y.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

rychre

a) cherry
b) cehrry
c) cheyrr
d) hcerry

Show answer

a) cherry. Find the double letter first; it sits in the middle.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

The cherry on top of the cake was bright red and shiney.

a) bright
b) cake
c) cherry
d) shiney

Show answer

d) shiney. Shine drops its e before the y: shiny. Cherry is spelt right here.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Like a cherry, a ____ grows on a tree.

a) pineapple
b) strawberry
c) melon
d) plum

Show answer

d) plum

2. What should you NOT do when eating a cherry?

a) eat the soft flesh
b) pull off the stalk
c) wash it first
d) swallow the stone

Show answer

d) swallow the stone

Associated Words

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