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Spell Bee Word: Family


What does family mean?

Word: Family

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Family means a group of people who are related to each other, such as parents and their children.

How do you spell family?

Syllables: fam - i - ly

Tricky part: The middle i is easy to drop when you say the word fast, so children often write famly.

Watch out for: famly, famely

Memory tip: Family has I in the middle. Remember that I am part of my family.

Family in a sentence

Example 1: My family eats dinner together.

Example 2: There are five people in my family.

Example 3: We went to Shimla with the whole family.

Fun Fact

Scientists also use the word family for groups of related animals. Lions, tigers and house cats all belong to the cat family.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) familey
b) family
c) phamily
d) femily

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b) family. Family starts with a plain f and a, and ends with y.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

familly

a) l
b) m
c) i
d) y

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a) l. Family has just one l before the y.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

lafimy

a) family
b) fmaily
c) faimly
d) famliy

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a) family. Six letters, and the i you might forget sits in the middle.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

fa_ily

a) m
b) b
c) n
d) l

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a) m. Family has an m after fa, as in mum.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Your mother's mother is your...

a) grandfather
b) grandmother
c) sister
d) aunt

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b) grandmother

2. Your father's brother is your...

a) cousin
b) uncle
c) nephew
d) grandfather

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b) uncle

Associated Words

More Class 1 Summer Spell Bee words starting with fa: favourite, fabric, fawn, factory, false, fast

More words from this list

hair, marry, pond, shirt, tiger, air, bottom, cone

Next steps

How to participate in CREST International Spell Bee

The CREST International Spell Bee (CSB) is conducted in two editions – CREST International Spell Bee - Summer (CSB) and CREST International Spell Bee - Winter (CSBW) – giving students across the globe an opportunity to showcase and enhance their spelling proficiency. Designed for young learners from Senior KG to Class 8, the competition focuses on word-building, pronunciation, and vocabulary enrichment, helping students develop strong linguistic skills.

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