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Spell Bee Word: dryer


Basic Details

Word: Dryer

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: A machine that dries things, such as a clothes dryer for washing or a hair dryer.

Sounds like: drier (more dry, as in 'today is drier than yesterday'; also used for the machine)

How to Spell Dryer

Syllables: dry - er

Tricky part: The machine word keeps the y of dry and adds er. Students sometimes add an extra i or write ar at the end.

Watch out for: dryar, driyer, dryier

Memory tip: A dryer is something that does the job of drying, like a mixer mixes and a heater heats: keep dry as it is and add er.

Usage Examples

Example 1: Papa took the warm bedsheets out of the dryer.

Example 2: My sister uses a hair dryer before school in winter.

Example 3: In the Mumbai monsoon, a clothes dryer saves a lot of waiting.

Fun Fact

A tumble dryer gets its name from the way its drum tumbles the clothes over and over in warm air.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Makeup

Choose the suffix that completes the word:

dry__

a) ar
b) ur
c) or
d) er

Show answer

d) er. A machine that dries takes er, as a heater or a mixer does.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) detergant
b) vacume
c) refrigirator
d) dryer

Show answer

d) dryer. Refrigerator, detergent and vacuum are household words that are wrongly spelt here.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Mummy spread the wet towels near the window because our clothes dryier had stopped working.

a) towels
b) dryier
c) window
d) working

Show answer

b) dryier. Dry keeps its y and takes er straight away, with no i squeezed in.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where in a home would you usually find a clothes dryer?

a) the shoe rack
b) the prayer room
c) the laundry area
d) the bookshelf

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c) the laundry area

2. What job does a hair dryer do?

a) cuts hair
b) colours hair
c) washes hair
d) dries wet hair

Show answer

d) dries wet hair

Associated Words

forwarddismantleconventionmosquitorefrigerator
unbrokenimmenseverbosebarefootrehearse

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