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Spell Bee Word: Headboard


What does headboard mean?

Word: Headboard

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Headboard means the tall, flat panel fixed at one end of a bed, behind where you sleep.

How do you spell headboard?

Syllables: head - board

Tricky part: Near the start, the short e sound is written ea, so hedboard is wrong.

Watch out for: hedboard, haedboard

Memory tip: Heavy and headboard start with the same three letters and say them the same way.

Headboard in a sentence

Example 1: Yuki stuck glow-in-the-dark stars on her wooden headboard.

Example 2: Papa painted the old headboard a bright sky blue.

Example 3: I sat up and leaned against the headboard to read my comic.

Fun Fact

Some headboards have small shelves or drawers built into them for books and a reading lamp.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Fusion

Add the correct option to the following to make a new word:

head_______

a) boared
b) borde
c) bord
d) board

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d) board. The second part has oa in the middle, the same as in boat and coat.

Spell Spies

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) headboard
b) blankit
c) mattress
d) cushion

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b) blankit. Blanket ends in et, not it.

Word Champ

Which of the words cannot be made using the letters in the given word?

headboard

a) bread
b) horse
c) road
d) hard

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b) horse. Horse needs an s, and there is no s in headboard.

Jumble Tumble

Which option has letters that you can rearrange to form the name of a part of a bed?

a) darbheod
b) darbheoad
c) darbhioad
d) darbheoadt

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b) darbheoad. Only this one has exactly the right letters; the others have a letter missing, added or changed.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In which room would you usually find a headboard?

a) a bathroom
b) a bedroom
c) a classroom
d) a kitchen

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b) a bedroom

2. Which of these is often placed against a headboard?

a) a bicycle
b) a pillow
c) a stove
d) a sink

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b) a pillow

Associated Words

Words that end in -ard: whiteboard, custard, postcard, orchard, mudguard, standard

More words from this list

machine, petal, sapling, supper, violin, bandage, cornflakes, emerald

Next steps

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