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Spell Bee Word: Chicken


What does chicken mean?

Word: Chicken

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Chicken means a farm bird kept for its eggs and meat; also the meat of this bird.

Synonyms: fowl

How do you spell chicken?

Syllables: chick - en

Tricky part: The k sound in the middle is written ck, as in chick, not with a k alone.

Watch out for: chiken, chikken

Memory tip: Every chicken starts life as a chick, so begin with the word chick, ck and all.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. don't count your chickens before they hatch: do not be sure of something good until it really happens Example: "We may win the final, but don't count your chickens before they hatch."

Chicken in a sentence

Example 1: Our neighbour keeps six chickens in her back garden.

Example 2: Mummy made chicken curry for Sunday lunch.

Example 3: The chicken pecked at the grain on the ground.

Fun Fact

Scientists treat birds, chickens included, as living descendants of dinosaurs.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) pigeun
b) peecock
c) chicken
d) sparow

Show answer

c) chicken. Sparrow has a double r, peacock has ea, and pigeon ends in on.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Grandma feeds grain to the chickins every morning.

a) grain
b) morning
c) chickins
d) feeds

Show answer

c) chickins. The end of chicken is en.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

nkecich

a) chickne
b) cihcken
c) hcicken
d) chicken

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d) chicken. Spot the two c's: one starts the word and one sits just before the k.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:

ch_cke_

a) i, m
b) i, n
c) e, n
d) u, n

Show answer

b) i, n. Chick has the short i of pin, and the word ends in n.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a home for chickens called?

a) a kennel
b) a stable
c) a sty
d) a coop

Show answer

d) a coop

2. Which sound does a chicken make?

a) cluck
b) hoot
c) quack
d) coo

Show answer

a) cluck

Associated Words

imitatekeyholesmellydaringmarket
joyoushonourjackethourtrash

Next steps

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