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Spell Bee Word: Coach


What does coach mean?

Word: Coach

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Coach means a person who teaches and guides a player or team in a sport; also a railway carriage or a long-distance bus.

How do you spell coach?

Syllables: coach

Tricky part: The vowel sound is spelt o-a, as in boat and road.

Watch out for: coch, cooch

Memory tip: Picture a coach with two passengers, o and a, sitting side by side in the middle.

Coach in a sentence

Example 1: Our cricket coach makes us run three rounds first.

Example 2: We sat in coach B4 of the Rajdhani Express.

Example 3: The coach clapped when Neha scored a goal.

Fun Fact

Students at Oxford in the 1800s called a private tutor a coach, as if he were a carriage carrying them through exams; sports borrowed the word later.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word: coach

a) fan
b) player
c) student
d) trainer

Show answer

d) trainer. A coach trains players, so trainer means the same.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) captain
b) player
c) coatch
d) referee

Show answer

c) coatch. Coach ends in ch, with no t.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Our train koach was right next to the pantry car.

a) pantry
b) koach
c) train
d) next

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b) koach. Coach begins with c, as car does.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Before cars, rich families often travelled in a coach pulled by ____.

a) elephants
b) horses
c) donkeys
d) camels

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b) horses

2. Before a big match, what does a good coach do?

a) sells tickets at the gate
b) paints lines on the field
c) cuts the grass on the pitch
d) plans how the team will play

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d) plans how the team will play

Associated Words

Words that end in -ach: approach, spinach, cockroach, stomach, preach, peach

More words from this list

disgust, freight, irate, muscle, pulse, somewhere, wealth, bagel

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