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Spell Bee Word: Hockey


What does hockey mean?

Word: Hockey

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Hockey means a team game played with curved sticks and a small hard ball, in which players try to hit the ball into the other team's goal.

How do you spell hockey?

Syllables: hock - ey

Tricky part: The k sound in the middle needs two letters, ck, not a single k.

Watch out for: hokkey, hocey

Memory tip: Hockey sticks clack and knock: c for clack, k for knock, standing side by side in the middle.

Hockey in a sentence

Example 1: Our school hockey team practises every morning.

Example 2: He scored a goal in the last minute of the hockey match.

Example 3: Hockey sticks are curved at the bottom.

Fun Fact

India's men's hockey team has won eight Olympic gold medals, and Major Dhyan Chand is remembered as one of the game's greatest players.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) badmington
b) atheletics
c) gymnastiks
d) hockey

Show answer

d) hockey. Badminton has no g, however it sounds; atheletics and gymnastiks are wrong too.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

kycoeh

a) hoyeck
b) ohckey
c) hockey
d) hockye

Show answer

c) hockey. Ho comes first, then ck, then ey.

Word Cookie

Fill in the missing letters to form a word:

h_ck_y

a) a, e
b) u, e
c) o, e
d) o, i

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c) o, e. The first vowel is o, as in hot, and the ending is ey, as in monkey.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Our school hockey team won the cup at the district tournamant.

a) hockey
b) team
c) district
d) tournamant

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d) tournamant. Tournament ends in ment; hockey is spelt right here.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many players does each team have on the field in a hockey match?

a) 11
b) 6
c) 9
d) 15

Show answer

a) 11

2. In ice hockey, players hit a ____ instead of a ball.

a) puck
b) marble
c) bead
d) shuttlecock

Show answer

a) puck

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