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Spell Bee Word: Geyser


What does geyser mean?

Word: Geyser

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Geyser means a hot spring that shoots hot water and steam high into the air from time to time. In India and Britain, a geyser is also an electric water heater in the bathroom.

How do you spell geyser?

Syllables: gey - ser

Tricky part: The vowels in the middle are ey, which many children leave out or write as i.

Watch out for: gyser, giser

Memory tip: The jet of water shooting up looks like a tall Y, and in geyser the y comes straight after the e.

Geyser in a sentence

Example 1: Steam rose from the geyser like a giant kettle.

Example 2: Switch on the geyser ten minutes before your bath.

Example 3: Tourists waited with cameras for the geyser to erupt again.

Fun Fact

Old Faithful, a geyser in Yellowstone National Park in the USA, got its name because it erupts so regularly, roughly every hour or two.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) glaceir
b) geyser
c) volcanoe
d) waterfal

Show answer

b) geyser. Glacier has i before er, volcano ends in a plain o, and waterfall has a double l.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Dadi switched on the geyzer early so that we could all have warm baths before school.

a) early
b) switched
c) baths
d) geyzer

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d) geyzer. The sound in the middle is like z, but the letter is s.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

rgesey

a) geese
b) geyser
c) greyer
d) sneeze

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b) geyser. Greyer needs two r's, geese has no y, and sneeze needs an n and a z.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ravi switched on the geyser, but his bath water is still icy cold. What has probably happened?

a) the soap has run out
b) the mirror is foggy
c) the power has gone off
d) the towel is wet

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c) the power has gone off

2. Geysers in nature are usually found where ____.

a) hot rock lies close to the surface
b) the ground is frozen solid all year
c) thick forests grow
d) rivers meet the sea

Show answer

a) hot rock lies close to the surface

Associated Words

Words that end in -ser: hairdresser, browser, cleanser

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Next steps

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