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Spell Bee Word: Hospital


What does hospital mean?

Word: Hospital

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Hospital means a building where doctors and nurses look after people who are ill or hurt.

How do you spell hospital?

Syllables: hos - pi - tal

Tricky part: The ending is al, not el or ol. In quick speech it is hard to hear, so hospitel is a common slip.

Watch out for: hospitel, hospitul, hospitol

Memory tip: When you are in hospital, a pal comes to visit. Hospital ends with the a-l of pal.

Hospital in a sentence

Example 1: Grandma went to the hospital for a check-up.

Example 2: My baby brother was born in this hospital.

Example 3: We took fruit to my uncle, who works at the hospital.

Fun Fact

Hospital comes from the Latin word hospes, meaning a guest or host. The word hospitality comes from the same root.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) hosspital
b) haspital
c) hosbital
d) hospital

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d) hospital. Hospital has an o after the h, one s, and a p in the middle.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

The nurse at the hosptal gave me a sticker.

a) sticker
b) hosptal
c) nurse
d) gave

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b) hosptal. An i has gone missing from the middle of the word.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

pitoslah

a) hostipal
b) hopsital
c) hospital
d) hsopital

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c) hospital. The word starts with the h, and the l comes last.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which vehicle rushes people to a hospital in an emergency?

a) an ambulance
b) a tractor
c) a fire engine
d) a school bus

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a) an ambulance

2. In a hospital, sick people rest in beds in a ____.

a) ward
b) lift
c) canteen
d) car park

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a) ward

Associated Words

Words that end in -tal: dental, subtotal, total, accidental, rental

More words from this list

marker, please, thick, yesterday, brush, curious, freeze, hippopotamus

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