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Spell Bee Word: Crocodile


What does crocodile mean?

Word: Crocodile

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Crocodile means a large reptile with a long body, a strong tail and huge jaws full of teeth. It lives in rivers, lakes and swamps.

How do you spell crocodile?

Syllables: croc - o - dile

Tricky part: Both vowels before the d are o, not a. Children often write crocadile.

Watch out for: crocadile, crocodial, krokodile

Memory tip: Picture the two o's before the d as the two round eyes of a crocodile peeping out of the river.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. crocodile tears: Tears that are not real, cried to fool others. Example: "My little brother cried crocodile tears to get another sweet."

Crocodile in a sentence

Example 1: A crocodile lay still on the river bank.

Example 2: The crocodile at the zoo opened its huge jaws.

Example 3: Baby crocodiles hatch from eggs.

Fun Fact

India has three kinds of crocodilians: the mugger, the saltwater crocodile and the gharial.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) crokodile
b) crocodile
c) krocodile
d) crockodile

Show answer

b) crocodile. Both hard c sounds in crocodile are a plain c, with no k.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

lcoeirdco

a) corcodile
b) cocrodile
c) rcocodile
d) crocodile

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d) crocodile. Read each choice aloud; only one says croc-o-dile.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

A crocodail swam across the river.

a) swam
b) river
c) across
d) crocodail

Show answer

d) crocodail. Crocodile ends in dile, which rhymes with smile.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

c_ocodile

a) h
b) r
c) l
d) w

Show answer

b) r. Crocodile starts with cr, the same two sounds as at the start of crab.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A crocodile is a reptile. Which animal is a reptile too?

a) a duck
b) a fish
c) a frog
d) a lizard

Show answer

d) a lizard

2. Crocodiles lie in the sun on the river bank to ____.

a) look for water
b) cool down
c) hide from birds
d) warm up

Show answer

d) warm up

Associated Words

Words that end in -ile: while, agile, mobile, fragile, meanwhile

More words from this list

foot, highlighter, magnet, picture, sweatshirt, workbook, bookmark, court

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