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Spell Bee Word: Dress


What does dress mean?

Word: Dress

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Dress means a piece of clothing for a girl or woman that covers the top of the body and hangs down over the legs. As a verb, dress means to put on clothes.

How do you spell dress?

Syllables: dress

Tricky part: It ends with a double s. Children often write only one.

Watch out for: dres, dresse

Memory tip: Hang a dress on a washing line with two pegs at the end. Those two pegs are the two s's.

Dress in a sentence

Example 1: Asha wore a yellow dress to the party.

Example 2: Get up and dress for school.

Example 3: Mum ironed my dress for the function.

Fun Fact

Dress comes from an old French word, dresser, which meant to arrange or set straight.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) dress
b) drass
c) driss
d) drees

Show answer

a) dress. Dress has a short e, the same as in bed.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Mum sewed shiny butons on my new dress.

a) dress
b) butons
c) shiny
d) sewed

Show answer

b) butons. Buttons has a double t.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

ssder

a) dsers
b) dress
c) drses
d) derss

Show answer

b) dress. Begin with dr, and keep the matching pair of letters for the end.

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word:

dress

a) frock
b) belt
c) cap
d) sock

Show answer

a) frock. A frock is another word for a dress.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do you need to sew a dress by hand?

a) paint and a brush
b) a needle and thread
c) soap and water
d) glue and paper

Show answer

b) a needle and thread

2. A shop that sells dresses and shirts is a...

a) book shop
b) toy shop
c) clothes shop
d) shoe shop

Show answer

c) clothes shop

Associated Words

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Next steps

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