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Spell Bee Word: Hectare


What does hectare mean?

Word: Hectare

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Hectare means a unit for measuring land, equal to 10,000 square metres.

How do you spell hectare?

Syllables: hec - tare

Tricky part: The end is the worry. Many children stop at hectar or write hecter, leaving the word without its proper close.

Watch out for: hecter, hectar

Memory tip: A hectare measures an area, and it ends with the first three letters of that word.

Hectare in a sentence

Example 1: My uncle grows sugarcane on two hectares of land near Kolhapur.

Example 2: The new school playground covers almost a full hectare.

Example 3: One hectare of mustard behind the village turned bright yellow in January.

Fun Fact

A square field with sides of 100 metres covers exactly one hectare. A full-size football pitch is smaller, at roughly 0.7 of a hectare.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Cookie

Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:

h_c_are

a) a, t
b) e, t
c) i, t
d) e, k

Show answer

b) e, t. Sound out the first beat and the e is clear, and the second beat opens with a t.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Each hektare of paddy near Ludhiana needs plenty of water during the hot months.

a) months
b) plenty
c) water
d) hektare

Show answer

d) hektare. The hard sound in the middle is spelt with a c, as in section.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) irigation
b) harvist
c) orchird
d) hectare

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d) hectare. Irrigation has a double r, harvest ends in est, and orchard ends in ard.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would a farmer most likely measure in hectares?

a) a can of milk
b) a sack of rice
c) a bale of hay
d) a field of rice

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d) a field of rice

2. Which unit is used for the same kind of measuring as a hectare?

a) the litre
b) the kilometre
c) the tonne
d) the acre

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d) the acre

Associated Words

Words that end in -are: glare, stare, spare, malware, prepare, unaware

More words from this list

livestock, plantation, secondary, weird, bale, colossal, dazzle, ensure

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