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Spell Bee Word: Couplet


What does couplet mean?

Word: Couplet

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Couplet means two lines of poetry, one after the other, that usually rhyme and have the same length and beat.

How do you spell couplet?

Syllables: coup - let

Tricky part: The first vowel sounds like the u in cup, but it is spelt ou. Students who spell by sound write cuplet.

Watch out for: cuplet, cauplet

Memory tip: Couplet sounds like cup, but it borrows the ou of double and trouble, two words that also say u with o-u.

Couplet in a sentence

Example 1: Our poem for the school magazine ended with a couplet about the monsoon.

Example 2: Each verse of the song is a short couplet that is easy to remember.

Example 3: The teacher asked us to write a couplet about our favourite snack.

Fun Fact

The Tamil classic Tirukkural, written well over a thousand years ago, is made up of 1,330 short couplets called kurals. Each one gives advice on living well in just two lines.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

coupplet

a) l
b) p
c) t
d) e

Show answer

b) p. A single p is enough, just as in couple.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Rahul copied a neat couplit into his notebook and read it aloud to his younger brother.

a) aloud
b) younger
c) notebook
d) couplit

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d) couplit. The ending is let, like the end of booklet and leaflet.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) poetrey
b) stanser
c) limerik
d) couplet

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d) couplet. Stanza ends in za, limerick ends in ck, and poetry has no e after the t.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A poem of twenty lines is made up only of couplets. How many couplets does it have?

a) ten
b) forty
c) five
d) twenty

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a) ten

2. Which pair of line endings would suit a couplet best?

a) sky and high
b) door and window
c) book and pencil
d) tree and river

Show answer

a) sky and high

Associated Words

Words that end in -let: ultraviolet, chalet, pamphlet, millet, droplet, mullet

More words from this list

emigration, gyroscope, longitude, petroleum, shortbread, unwieldy, affiliation, brittle

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