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Spell Bee Word: Hairy


What does hairy mean?

Word: Hairy

Part of Speech: Adjective

Meaning: Hairy means having plenty of hair growing on it.

How do you spell hairy?

Syllables: hair - y

Tricky part: The first part sounds like the air in chair, and children often leave out the i. They write hary.

Watch out for: hary, hayry

Memory tip: Chair, stair and hair all keep an i after the a, and hairy does the same.

Hairy in a sentence

Example 1: The old goat has a thick, hairy coat.

Example 2: Baba has hairy arms and a big laugh.

Example 3: Have you touched the hairy skin of a coconut?

Fun Fact

A sloth is so hairy and so slow that green algae, tiny plant-like living things, grow in its coat.

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Word Connection

Choose the antonym of the word:

hairy

a) shaggy
b) furry
c) woolly
d) bald

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d) bald. A head with no hair at all is the opposite of a hairy one.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

yrhia

a) haiyr
b) hairy
c) hraiy
d) hyair

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b) hairy. Look for the order that describes a coat with plenty of hair.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) hairi
b) hairie
c) hairy
d) hairey

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c) hairy. Like rainy and sunny, it ends in a y.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

A hairy caterpiller crawled up the leaf.

a) crawled
b) hairy
c) caterpiller
d) leaf

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c) caterpiller. This creature ends in ar, not er.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which animal would you call hairy?

a) a goldfish
b) a snake
c) a frog
d) a yak

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d) a yak

2. What would a barber do to make a hairy chin smooth?

a) wash it
b) cover it
c) comb it
d) shave it

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d) shave it

Associated Words

More Class 2 Summer Spell Bee words starting with ha: halt, happy, hare, hardware, hazel, handkerchief

More words from this list

lazy, packet, salty, sticker, weather, barn, classmate, erase

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