Spell Bee Word: Heart

What does heart mean?

Word: Heart

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Heart means the part inside your body that pumps blood.

How do you spell heart?

Syllables: heart

Tricky part: The vowel sound is long, like the a in father, yet two vowels spell it, e and then a. Children often swap them and write haert.

Watch out for: haert, hert

Memory tip: Tap your chest twice, like two heartbeats: e for the first tap and a for the second.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. learn by heart: to learn something so well that you can say it from memory. Example: "We learnt the whole poem by heart."

Heart in a sentence

Example 1: Your heart beats all day and all night.

Example 2: I can feel my heart thumping after the relay.

Example 3: Our class made a clay model of a heart.

Fun Fact

An adult human heart beats about 100,000 times a day and is about the size of a closed fist.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

hea_t

a) s
b) r
c) d
d) l

Show answer

b) r. The sound of car is in this word, and it needs that same last letter.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

My heartt beats fast after a long swim.

a) beats
b) after
c) heartt
d) swim

Show answer

c) heartt. The word ends in a single t.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) finger
b) elbow
c) heart
d) sholder

Show answer

d) sholder. This body part has a u after the o.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In which part of the body is the heart?

a) the arm
b) the neck
c) the chest
d) the knee

Show answer

c) the chest

2. Your heart beats faster when you ____.

a) fall asleep
b) read a book
c) sit on a sofa
d) run a race

Show answer

d) run a race

Associated Words

Words that start with hea: headband, healthy, heavy, headache, headmistress

More words from this list

locker, peanut, seahorse, success, without, blouse, corner, feast

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.

Steps to Participate:

Step 1: Visit the registration page and complete the registration with your desired subject.

Step 2: After Registration done, do login at www.crestolympiads.com/login.

Step 3: After login, go to dashboard and click on Book slot/Take Exam

Step 4: Schedule your exam date and preferred time.

Step 5: Log in with your credentials on the exam day at the scheduled time and take the exam.

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