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Spell Bee Word: Earring


What does earring mean?

Word: Earring

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Earring means a small ornament, often of gold or silver, that is worn on or hanging from the ear.

How do you spell earring?

Syllables: ear - ring

Tricky part: Two r's sit side by side in the middle. Children often write only one, as if the word were a form of ear.

Watch out for: earing, eareing

Memory tip: Hold up two fingers for the two r's in the middle - one for each ear.

Earring in a sentence

Example 1: Ammi's gold earrings sparkled in the lamplight.

Example 2: One of my earrings slipped under the sofa.

Example 3: The shop sells earrings shaped like tiny stars.

Fun Fact

Earrings are among the oldest kinds of ornament: people have worn them for thousands of years.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Makeup

Choose the correctly spelt compound word:

a) eerring
b) iarring
c) earring
d) aerring

Show answer

c) earring. The word starts with the same two vowels as each and eat.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

earrinng

a) r
b) i
c) g
d) n

Show answer

d) n. The ending is ing, as in sing, with a single n.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) earring
b) braclet
c) necklase
d) bangel

Show answer

a) earring. Necklace ends in lace, bracelet needs an e after the c, and bangle ends in gle.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Didi wore a pair of silver earrings to the birthday partee.

a) earrings
b) partee
c) silver
d) birthday

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b) partee. Party ends in a y.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these would most likely share a small box with an earring?

a) a cricket ball
b) a paper boat
c) a steel spoon
d) a gold chain

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d) a gold chain

2. A jhumka is a kind of earring. What shape is a jhumka?

a) a flat star
b) a little bell
c) a tiny square
d) a long chain

Show answer

b) a little bell

Associated Words

Words that end in -ring: boring, bring, domineering

More words from this list

goal, knead, numb, remove, structure, activate, bookstore, compete

Next steps

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