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Spell Bee Word: Engine


What does engine mean?

Word: Engine

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Engine means the machine inside a vehicle that gives it the power to move.

How do you spell engine?

Syllables: en - gine

Tricky part: The middle sounds like j, but it is written with g.

Watch out for: enjine, endjine

Memory tip: Picture a giant pushing a train engine: giant starts with the letter that makes the j sound here.

Engine in a sentence

Example 1: The engine of our old car makes a loud rumble in the mornings.

Example 2: Vikram drew a red engine pulling six carriages.

Example 3: The pilot started the engine and the little plane rolled forward.

Fun Fact

The first railway engines were driven by steam, made by heating water over a coal fire.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Champ

Choose the correct option to make a meaningful word:

eng___

a) ene
b) ien
c) ine
d) in

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c) ine. The ending is ine with a quiet e, though it sounds like in.

Spellacadabra

Choose the correct option to make a meaningful word:

_ngine

a) i
b) e
c) u
d) a

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b) e. The word begins with e, like egg; ingine, angine and ungine are not words.

Spell Spies

Choose the pair which has a spelling error:

a) engine : engines
b) wheel : wheeles
c) lorry : lorries
d) brush : brushes

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b) wheel : wheeles. Wheel just adds s for more than one, so wheels has no e before the s.

Jumble Tumble

What is the meaning of the word that can be formed from the given letters?

gneien

a) a lamp at the front of a car for driving at night
b) the round thing a driver turns to steer
c) the part under the bonnet of a car that hums when it starts
d) the round rubber part that a car rolls along on

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c) the part under the bonnet of a car that hums when it starts. The letters make the word for the machine that makes a car go.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these needs an engine to move?

a) a skateboard
b) a bus
c) a kite
d) a bicycle

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b) a bus

2. Which of these might an engine need to work?

a) paint
b) glue
c) fuel
d) soap

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c) fuel

Associated Words

Words that end in -ine: twine, tambourine, trampoline

More words from this list

guitar, louse, perch, sandpit, stuff, velvet, balm, coil

Next steps

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