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Spell Bee Word: Fence


What does fence mean?

Word: Fence

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Fence means a line of posts joined with wood or wire that goes round a garden, field or park.

How do you spell fence?

Syllables: fence

Tricky part: The s sound at the end is spelt with a c. Fense is a very common mistake.

Watch out for: fense, fenss

Memory tip: The hissing sound at the end of fence comes from a c, not an s.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. sit on the fence: to not choose one side when people disagree Example: "Rahul sat on the fence when his friends argued about which game to play."

Fence in a sentence

Example 1: A wooden fence runs around our garden.

Example 2: The cows stood by the fence and watched us.

Example 3: Papa painted the fence green.

Fun Fact

Australia's Dingo Fence is more than 5,000 kilometres long. It was built to keep wild dogs called dingoes away from sheep farms.

Practise the CREST Way

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

cfeen

a) fence
b) fecne
c) fneec
d) fcene

Show answer

a) fence. The n comes straight before the c, and none of the others manages that.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Om hung his kite string on the low fance in the park.

a) string
b) fance
c) low
d) park

Show answer

b) fance. The vowel is e, as in hen.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

fennce

a) f
b) c
c) e
d) n

Show answer

d) n. There is only one n before the c.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) fenc
b) fencee
c) fence
d) fenec

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c) fence. A single silent e comes last.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why might a farmer build a fence round a field?

a) to bring more rain
b) to light up the field
c) to keep the goats in
d) to make the grass grow

Show answer

c) to keep the goats in

2. Which of these is most like a fence?

a) a roof
b) a hedge
c) a ceiling
d) a floor

Show answer

b) a hedge

Associated Words

Words that end in -nce: bounce, science, advance, ambulance, balance, pounce

More words from this list

headband, lizard, peach, scone, subject, with, between, confetti

Next steps

How to participate in CREST International Spell Bee

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