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Spell Bee Word: Chimpanzee


What does chimpanzee mean?

Word: Chimpanzee

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Chimpanzee means a clever ape with black hair that lives in African forests. Chimpanzees are close cousins of humans.

Synonyms: chimp

How do you spell chimpanzee?

Syllables: chim - pan - zee

Tricky part: Children hear chip at the start and leave out the m. It comes just before the p.

Watch out for: chipanzee, chinpanzee

Memory tip: Close your lips for the m, then pop them open for the p: say chim slowly and feel both.

Chimpanzee in a sentence

Example 1: The chimpanzee peeled a banana with its fingers.

Example 2: A baby chimpanzee rides on its mother's back.

Example 3: We watched a chimpanzee swing from a rope.

Fun Fact

Jane Goodall saw wild chimpanzees using twigs to fish termites out of their nests.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) chimpanzy
b) chimpanzi
c) chimpanzie
d) chimpanzee

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d) chimpanzee. The last sound, like the letter e, is spelt with two e's.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

zeimcanphe

a) chimapnzee
b) chimpanzee
c) chimpnazee
d) chimpaznee

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b) chimpanzee. Each wrong choice swaps two letters that sit side by side; pick the one with no swap.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

chimp_nzee

a) a
b) e
c) o
d) u

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a) a. The middle part sounds like the pan you cook in.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

chimpanzzee

a) e
b) z
c) a
d) p

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b) z. The buzzing sound near the end needs only one z.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chimpanzees belong to the same group of animals as ____.

a) gorillas
b) giraffes
c) hippos
d) leopards

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a) gorillas

2. Chimpanzees do not live in the wild in India. Where could you see one here?

a) in the Thar Desert
b) on a tea farm
c) in a zoo
d) in a village pond

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c) in a zoo

Associated Words

Words that start with chi: chill, chicken, chin, chief, childish, child

More words from this list

effort, grasp, keen, object, repair, sponge, vest, awake

Next steps

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