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Spell Bee Word: Downstairs


What does downstairs mean?

Word: Downstairs

Part of Speech: Adverb

Meaning: Downstairs means on or to a lower floor of a building, down the stairs.

Synonyms: below

How do you spell downstairs?

Syllables: down - stairs

Tricky part: The steps part has air in the middle, not are as in stares. It is written as one word with no space.

Watch out for: downstares, donstairs, dowstairs

Memory tip: The steps you climb have air in them, not are: you stare at a picture, but you walk down the steps to go downstairs.

Downstairs in a sentence

Example 1: Grandpa lives downstairs, and we live on the second floor.

Example 2: Run downstairs and open the door for the milkman.

Example 3: The lift was broken, so we walked downstairs.

Fun Fact

A house with a downstairs and at least one floor above it is a two-storey house in British English; American English spells that word story.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Makeup

Choose the correctly spelt compound word:

a) downstairz
b) dounstairs
c) dawnstairs
d) downstairs

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d) downstairs. Down keeps its o-w, and the word ends in a plain s.

Word Connection

Choose the antonym of the word:

downstairs

a) inside
b) lower
c) beneath
d) upstairs

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d) upstairs. Upstairs is on a higher floor; downstairs is lower down.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

downnstairs

a) w
b) s
c) n
d) o

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c) n. Take out the second n and down appears.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) corrider
b) ceiling
c) downstairs
d) balcony

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a) corrider. Corridor ends in -or; balcony, ceiling and downstairs are all spelt right.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In a two-floor house, where is the downstairs bathroom?

a) in the attic room
b) on the ground floor
c) on the top floor
d) on the roof terrace

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b) on the ground floor

2. Downstairs is a compound word. Which of these is not one?

a) playground
b) teacher
c) classroom
d) sunshine

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b) teacher

Associated Words

Related words on the Spell Bee lists: below

More words from this list

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