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Spell Bee Word: Doe


What does doe mean?

Word: Doe

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Doe means a female deer. The word is also used for a female rabbit or hare.

Sounds like: dough (a soft mix of flour and water for making bread or roti)

How do you spell doe?

Syllables: doe

Tricky part: The oh sound is spelt oe, as in toe and hoe. Children may write do or doh instead.

Watch out for: doo, dowe

Memory tip: A doe and her baby walk on their toes. Doe and toe end the same way: oe.

Doe in a sentence

Example 1: The doe drank from the cool stream.

Example 2: The doe ran off into the tall grass.

Example 3: We saw a doe in the national park.

Fun Fact

In the song Do-Re-Mi from the film The Sound of Music, one line goes: Doe, a deer, a female deer.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Connection

Select the masculine form of the word:

doe

a) drake
b) colt
c) bull
d) buck

Show answer

d) buck. The male of a doe is a buck; a drake is a male duck.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) grass
b) deer
c) forist
d) doe

Show answer

c) forist. Doe, grass and deer are right; forest has an e in the middle.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

The doe lowered her hed to drink.

a) hed
b) lowered
c) doe
d) drink

Show answer

a) hed. Head has ea in the middle, not just e.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these is a doe most likely to eat?

a) seeds and worms
b) meat and bones
c) grass and leaves
d) fish and frogs

Show answer

c) grass and leaves

2. A doe has just had a baby. What is the baby called?

a) a lamb
b) a chick
c) a fawn
d) a cub

Show answer

c) a fawn

Associated Words

Related words on the Spell Bee lists: dough

More words from this list

frozen, kind, owl, root, study, wife, bark, change

Next steps

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