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Spell Bee Word: Furniture


What does furniture mean?

Word: Furniture

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Furniture means the things in a room that make it ready to use, such as chairs, tables, beds and cupboards.

How do you spell furniture?

Syllables: fur - ni - ture

Tricky part: The end sounds like 'cher' but is spelt ture. Children often write furnichure.

Watch out for: furnichure, furnitcher

Memory tip: When you write it, say the end in your head as 'tyoor', so you remember the t, u, r and e.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. part of the furniture: Someone who has been somewhere so long that everyone takes them for granted. Example: "Ramu kaka has worked in the shop for thirty years; he is part of the furniture."

Furniture in a sentence

Example 1: We moved the furniture to make room for the party.

Example 2: Our new furniture is made of teak wood.

Example 3: Mama dusts the furniture every Sunday.

Fun Fact

Furniture comes from the French word fourniture, which means supplies, the things that are provided for you.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) tabel
b) cubbard
c) curtian
d) furniture

Show answer

d) furniture. Cupboard has a silent p, table ends in le and curtain in ain.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

fur_iture

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

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b) n. Say fur-ni-ture and listen for the n at the start of the middle part.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

nutferiru

a) funriture
b) furniture
c) furinture
d) fruniture

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b) furniture. Begin with fur, then put n before i in the middle.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

furniiture

a) r
b) i
c) t
d) u

Show answer

b) i. Only one i sits between the n and the t.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. You would call ____ a piece of furniture.

a) a pencil
b) a sofa
c) a spoon
d) a shirt

Show answer

b) a sofa

2. Choose the correct way to say it:

a) We bought a furnitures.
b) We bought some new furniture.
c) We bought some new furnitures.
d) We bought two furniture.

Show answer

b) We bought some new furniture.

Associated Words

ambitionislandequipmentscrubcharity
waterfallbenevolentshallowjoyfulnessconfidence

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