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Spell Bee Word: Heaven


What does heaven mean?

Word: Heaven

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Heaven means a place of perfect happiness that many religions believe in. People also call any very pleasant place or feeling heaven.

How do you spell heaven?

Syllables: heav - en

Tricky part: The short e sound is spelt ea, as in bread and head.

Watch out for: heven, hevven

Memory tip: Heavy and heaven share their first four letters: h-e-a-v.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. move heaven and earth: to do everything you possibly can Example: "Our coach moved heaven and earth to get the team to the finals."

Heaven in a sentence

Example 1: Hot apple pie on a cold evening is pure heaven.

Example 2: Kashmir is often called heaven on earth.

Example 3: The garden looked like heaven when the spring flowers came out.

Fun Fact

Heaven comes from the Old English word heofon, which also meant the sky.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Champ

Choose the correct option to make a meaningful word:

heav_ _

a) an
b) en
c) in
d) on

Show answer

b) en. The ending is e-n, as in kitten.

Jumble Tumble

Choose the correct sequence of the jumbled letters to form a meaningful word:

nvaehe 123456

a) 543216
b) 534261
c) 453261
d) 543261

Show answer

d) 543261. H is letter 5 and e is letter 4; a, v, e and n follow as 3, 2, 6 and 1.

Spell Spies

Choose the misspelt word/s in the given sentence:

Sitting by the warm fire with a cup of hot cocoa felt like heaven on that freezing Febuary evening.

a) cocoa and freezing
b) heaven and Febuary
c) only Febuary
d) only heaven

Show answer

c) only Febuary. February has an r after the b: F-e-b-r-u-a-r-y.

Sound Check

Which word rhymes with heaven?

a) even
b) haven
c) seven
d) oven

Show answer

c) seven. Seven and heaven share the short e and the -ven ending.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which word is closest in meaning to heaven?

a) paradise
b) market
c) desert
d) village

Show answer

a) paradise

2. If something tastes like heaven, it tastes ...

a) sour
b) burnt
c) bland
d) wonderful

Show answer

d) wonderful

Associated Words

Words that start with hea: headrest, headboard, headlight

More words from this list

member, recipe, starch, tread, able, carton, crumple, essence

Next steps

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