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Spell Bee Word: Curly


What does curly mean?

Word: Curly

Part of Speech: Adjective

Meaning: Curly means having lots of curls, or bending round and round.

How do you spell curly?

Syllables: cur - ly

Tricky part: The sound in the first part is spelt ur, though er and ir make that same sound in other words.

Watch out for: cerly, cirly

Memory tip: Curls go round like the curve of a u, so a u comes straight after the c.

Curly in a sentence

Example 1: My little cousin has soft curly hair.

Example 2: The pumpkin vine sends out curly green shoots.

Example 3: Kavya drew a curly tail on her pig.

Fun Fact

Curly brackets are the name for the marks { and } that some people use in maths and in computer code.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Connection

Choose the antonym of the word:

curly

a) bouncy
b) wavy
c) straight
d) frizzy

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c) straight. Hair with no bends at all is the opposite of hair full of curls.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) glossy
b) tangeled
c) fluffy
d) curly

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b) tangeled. Tangled has no e between the g and the l.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

curlly

a) u
b) c
c) l
d) y

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c) l. A single l is enough in this word.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Tara tied her curley hair back with a yellow ribbon.

a) yellow
b) ribbon
c) curley
d) tied

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c) curley. Only a y closes this describing word; no e is needed.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Grandma puts rollers in her hair to make it curly. How will it look afterwards?

a) flat and smooth
b) cut much shorter
c) short and spiky
d) full of soft twists

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d) full of soft twists

2. Siddharth draws a curly line. Which of these does it look most like?

a) a stick
b) a wall
c) a spring
d) a ladder

Show answer

c) a spring

Associated Words

Words that start with cur: curiosity, current, curious, curriculum, curator, currency

More words from this list

eyeball, herd, lone, peahen, scrub, toothless, angle, calendar

Next steps

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