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Spell Bee Word: Equipment


Basic Details

Word: Equipment

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: The tools, machines or things you need for a particular job or activity, such as bats and pads for cricket.

How to Spell Equipment

Syllables: e - quip - ment

Tricky part: There is no t after the p (not equiptment), and the ending is ment, not mant.

Watch out for: equiptment, equipmant, eqipment

Memory tip: Equip + ment. To equip someone is to give them what they need, and the things you give are the equipment.

Usage Examples

Example 1: The cricket equipment is kept in the sports room.

Example 2: Firefighters carry heavy equipment up the ladder.

Example 3: Our science lab has new equipment for experiments.

Fun Fact

An astronaut's spacesuit is a whole set of equipment in itself, with its own oxygen supply, cooling water and radio.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) treatment
b) department
c) equiptment
d) payment

Show answer

c) equiptment. There is no t between the p and the m in equipment.

Word Makeup

Choose the suffix that completes the word:

equip

a) ment
b) mant
c) mente
d) mint

Show answer

a) ment. Equip + ment gives equipment, like enjoy + ment gives enjoyment.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

tmeqpeuin

a) eqiupment
b) equimpent
c) equipmnet
d) equipment

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d) equipment. Build equip first, keeping q and u together, then add ment.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:

eq_ipm_nt

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

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a) u, e. Q is followed by u, and the ending is ment.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these is football equipment?

a) a toothbrush
b) a frying pan
c) a pencil box
d) shin pads

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d) shin pads

2. Which is correct?

a) We packed our camping equipments.
b) We packed our camping equipment.
c) We packed our camping equip.
d) We packed an camping equipment.

Show answer

b) We packed our camping equipment.

Associated Words

elaborateremovenarrowboldencourage
cryinglandladydomesticpatienceisland

Next steps

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