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Spell Bee Word: Currency


What does currency mean?

Word: Currency

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Currency means the money used in a particular country.

How do you spell currency?

Syllables: cur - ren - cy

Tricky part: A double r sits near the start. Say the word fast and it is easy to write just one.

Watch out for: curency, curensy

Memory tip: Every coin has two sides, so give currency two r's.

Currency in a sentence

Example 1: The rupee is the currency of India.

Example 2: Dad changed some rupees into Thai currency before our trip to Bangkok.

Example 3: Many countries in Europe share one currency, the euro.

Fun Fact

The sign for India's currency was designed by D. Udaya Kumar, then a student, and chosen in 2010 from thousands of entries.

Practise the CREST Way

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

ncyuercr

a) courtesy
b) currency
c) cursory
d) current

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b) currency. Each of the others needs a letter missing here: a t for current and courtesy, an s for cursory.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:

c_rr_ncy

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

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c) u, e. The first beat is like the start of curry, and the middle vowel is a quiet e.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

The airport shop showed the rate for each foreign currencey on a bright screen.

a) screen
b) foreign
c) bright
d) currencey

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d) currencey. Unlike money, this word has no e before its final y.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) economy
b) exchange
c) finacial
d) currency

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c) finacial. Financial has a second n, just before the c.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A shopkeeper in Paris will not take your rupee notes. What is the most likely reason?

a) The notes have gone out of date
b) France pays in euros instead
c) Rupees are too heavy to carry
d) His till is already quite full

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b) France pays in euros instead

2. Which name below belongs to a kind of money?

a) the dirham
b) the kilogram
c) the metre
d) the litre

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a) the dirham

Associated Words

Words that end in -ency: tendency, emergency, frequency, agency, proficiency, consistency

More words from this list

enact, harvest, liberty, phobia, schedule, voluntary, backstroke, cluster

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