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Spell Bee Word: Gas


What does gas mean?

Word: Gas

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Gas means something like air that has no shape of its own and spreads out to fill any space. Gas is also the fuel used on a kitchen stove.

How do you spell gas?

Syllables: gas

Tricky part: Gas has just one s. Children who know words like grass and glass often add a second s by mistake.

Watch out for: gass, gaz

Memory tip: Gas has one s, just like has and was.

Gas in a sentence

Example 1: Papa turned off the gas after making tea.

Example 2: The air we breathe is a mix of gases.

Example 3: The man at the fair filled my balloon with gas, and it floated up.

Fun Fact

The word gas was made up in the 1600s by a Flemish scientist, Jan Baptist van Helmont. He based it on the Greek word chaos.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) balloon
b) bubble
c) smoke
d) gaas

Show answer

d) gaas. Gas has only one a.

Word Chain

Complete the word sequence:

solid, liquid, ____

a) rock
b) gas
c) water
d) ice

Show answer

b) gas. Things can be solid like a stone, liquid like milk, or a gas like air.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

We cook our food on a gase stove.

a) cook
b) stove
c) food
d) gase

Show answer

d) gase. Gase is wrong; gas has no letter after the s.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these is a gas?

a) honey
b) steam
c) ice
d) sand

Show answer

b) steam

2. What should you do if you smell gas in the kitchen?

a) light a match to look
b) switch on the fan
c) tell an adult at once
d) keep on playing

Show answer

c) tell an adult at once

Associated Words

More Class 1 Summer Spell Bee words starting with g: gentleman, grain, gallery, ground, glass, gown

More words from this list

lamp, parent, sandal, swim, writer, beauty, cheerful, doubt

Next steps

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