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Spell Bee Word: Guide


What does guide mean?

Word: Guide

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Guide means a person who shows visitors around a place and tells them about it. A guide can also be a book of helpful information.

How do you spell guide?

Syllables: guide

Tricky part: The u after the g is silent. You do not hear it, so children often write gide.

Watch out for: gide, giude

Memory tip: A good guide walks beside you, so keep the u beside the g.

Guide in a sentence

Example 1: The guide showed us the old fort in Jaipur.

Example 2: Our guide knew the name of every bird in the forest.

Example 3: Mum bought a small guide to the zoo.

Fun Fact

The word guide reached English from French, and French still spells it the same way today.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

guid_

a) i
b) a
c) e
d) o

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c) e. The letter at the end makes the i say its name, as in ride and slide.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

guidde

a) d
b) u
c) g
d) e

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a) d. One d is all this word needs.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) guyde
b) guoide
c) guede
d) guide

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d) guide. The long sound in the middle is written with a plain i.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

dgieu

a) gueid
b) gudie
c) guide
d) guied

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c) guide. Only this order makes the word for someone who shows visitors around.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where would you most likely meet a guide?

a) in a museum
b) in a bakery
c) in a barber's shop
d) in a shoe shop

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a) in a museum

2. The guide lifted a small flag so that the group could ____ her.

a) paint
b) carry
c) forget
d) follow

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d) follow

Associated Words

Words that end in -ide: decide, inside, divide, outside, countryside, pesticide

More words from this list

lawn, ozone, sail, steer, wealthy, bare, classify, enter

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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