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Spell Bee Word: Hand


What does hand mean?

Word: Hand

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Hand means the part of your body at the end of your arm, with four fingers and a thumb, that you use to hold things.

How do you spell hand?

Syllables: hand

Tricky part: Hand has a single short a, the sound you hear at the start of apple.

Watch out for: haand, hend

Memory tip: Wave your hand and say a short a, as in apple: hand has just that one a.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. give a hand: To help someone. Example: "Can you give me a hand with these heavy books?"
  2. hand in hand: Holding each other's hand, or working closely together. Example: "The twins walked to school hand in hand."

Hand in a sentence

Example 1: Raise your hand if you know the answer.

Example 2: Wash your hands before you eat.

Example 3: Dhruv writes with his left hand.

Fun Fact

One human hand, including the wrist, has 27 bones.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) ankle
b) finger
c) hande
d) elbow

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c) hande. Hande is wrong: hand stops at the d.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

ndha

a) hnad
b) hadn
c) ahnd
d) hand

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d) hand. Only one order makes a body part: h-a-n-d.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

ha_d

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

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a) n. The sound before the d is n.

Word Chain

Complete the word sequence:

elbow, wrist, hand, ____

a) shoulder
b) finger
c) knee
d) ankle

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b) finger. Going down the arm, the elbow comes first, then the wrist, the hand and the fingers.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The flat inside part of your hand is called the ____.

a) sole
b) heel
c) cheek
d) palm

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d) palm

2. You use your hands to ____.

a) clap
b) blink
c) kick
d) sniff

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a) clap

Associated Words

More Class 1 Summer Spell Bee words starting with ha: hair, hardly, happen

More words from this list

merry, postman, shout, tired, alarm, brain, continue, fame

Next steps

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