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Spell Bee Word: Dollar


What does dollar mean?

Word: Dollar

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Dollar means the main unit of money in the USA and in several other countries.

How do you spell dollar?

Syllables: dol - lar

Tricky part: The end is spelt ar. It sounds like the er in sister, so doller is the usual mistake.

Watch out for: doller, dollor

Memory tip: Keep your money in a jar: this word ends in the same two letters.

Dollar in a sentence

Example 1: Uncle Arun changed his rupees into dollars before his trip to New York.

Example 2: The postcard cost two dollars at the museum shop.

Example 3: Ria's aunt in Australia posted her a shiny dollar coin.

Fun Fact

The name goes back to the thaler, a large silver coin first made in a valley called Joachimsthal in what is now the Czech Republic.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell Spies

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) dolar
b) grammar
c) sugar
d) pillar

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a) dolar. This word has a double l in the middle; the other three are spelt correctly.

Sound Check

Which of the following words rhymes with the given word?

dollar

a) scholar
b) cellar
c) solar
d) polar

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a) scholar. Scholar has the same short o sound; polar and solar have a long o, and cellar has a short e.

Word Champ

Choose the correct word for the blank:

The tourist paid with a ten-___ note at the book stall.

a) dollar
b) cellar
c) dolphin
d) collar

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a) dollar. Only the name of a kind of money fits before the word note.

Jumble Tumble

Which option has letters that you can rearrange to form the name of a kind of money?

a) lodlur
b) modlar
c) lodlar
d) lotlar

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c) lodlar. Lodlar sorts into the name of the money; the others bring in a t, a u or an m that do not belong.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these countries also has a currency called the dollar?

a) Egypt
b) India
c) Canada
d) Japan

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c) Canada

2. In which smaller coins would you count your change from one US dollar?

a) yen
b) pence
c) paise
d) cents

Show answer

d) cents

Associated Words

More Class 3 Winter Spell Bee words starting with do: doorman, download, dozen, dough, dose, doze

More words from this list

furnish, jagged, notch, savings, stripe, vendor, armrest, chorus

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