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Spell Bee Word: Hazel


What does hazel mean?

Word: Hazel

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Hazel means a small tree with round brown nuts. As a colour word it means light greenish-brown.

How do you spell hazel?

Syllables: ha - zel

Tricky part: The last part sounds like the le in table, so children write hazle. Here the two letters swap places.

Watch out for: hazle, hazal

Memory tip: Eat Lots of nuts: E, then L, and you have the end of hazel.

Hazel in a sentence

Example 1: Anu's eyes are a soft hazel.

Example 2: A hazel grows beside the stream behind our cottage.

Example 3: The hazel lost its leaves before the first snow.

Fun Fact

Most of the world's hazelnuts, the nuts of this tree, are grown in Turkey.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

hazzel

a) z
b) e
c) l
d) a

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a) z. This buzzy letter comes only once.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

A squirel sat in the hazel all morning.

a) hazel
b) sat
c) morning
d) squirel

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d) squirel. This furry animal has a double r in the middle.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

ehzal

a) zahel
b) ahzel
c) hazel
d) hzael

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c) hazel. Say them aloud: this order names a small nut tree.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) haizel
b) heazel
c) hayzel
d) hazel

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d) hazel. A plain a gives the long sound, as in baby.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Someone says that Priya has hazel eyes. What does this tell you?

a) the size of her eyes
b) the strength of her eyes
c) the shape of her eyes
d) the colour of her eyes

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d) the colour of her eyes

2. A hazel is most like which of these?

a) a cabbage
b) a daisy
c) a willow
d) a carrot

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c) a willow

Associated Words

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

More words from this list

live, paw, scientist, string, wise, bench, compare, eyelash

Next steps

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