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Spell Bee Word: Heavenly


What does heavenly mean?

Word: Heavenly

Part of Speech: Adjective

Meaning: Heavenly means very lovely or very tasty. It can also mean to do with the sky and the stars.

Synonyms: lovely, delightful

Antonyms: awful

How do you spell heavenly?

Syllables: heav - en - ly

Tricky part: The ea in heaven says a short e, as in bread, so many children write hevenly.

Watch out for: hevenly, havenly

Memory tip: Imagine a sweet so heavenly that you say "eh, ah" as you taste it: e, then a, at the start of heaven.

Heavenly in a sentence

Example 1: Grandma's apple pies taste heavenly.

Example 2: The garden smelt heavenly after the rain.

Example 3: From the hilltop, the night sky full of stars looked heavenly.

Fun Fact

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

Practise the CREST Way

Word Fusion

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

heaven______

a) lie
b) ley
c) ly
d) lee

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c) ly. Heaven takes the plain ending ly, just as love becomes lovely.

Spell Spies

Choose the pair which has a spelling error:

a) heavenly : awful
b) full : emptey
c) soft : hard
d) bright : dull

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b) full : emptey. Empty ends in a plain y, with no e before it.

Word Champ

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

heavenly

a) navy
b) even
c) eleven
d) leave

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c) eleven. Eleven is spelt with three e's; heavenly holds two.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. If a sweet tastes heavenly, it tastes ___.

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

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c) wonderful

2. The Sun, the Moon and the stars are sometimes called heavenly ___.

a) rivers
b) flowers
c) bodies
d) houses

Show answer

c) bodies

Associated Words

Words that start with hea: headboard, heap, headrest, head

Related words on the Spell Bee lists: delightful

More words from this list

mermaid, petunia, sausage, sway, walnut, batch, cough, engine

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