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Spell Bee Word: Hundred


What does hundred mean?

Word: Hundred

Part of Speech: Number

Meaning: Hundred means the number 100.

How do you spell hundred?

Syllables: hun - dred

Tricky part: The end is -dred: the r comes straight after the d. Children often swap them and write hunderd.

Watch out for: hunderd, hundered

Memory tip: Read the end as dred: d, r, e, d, so it starts and stops with a d.

Hundred in a sentence

Example 1: Our school library has more than a hundred storybooks in Hindi.

Example 2: Aarav counted to a hundred while his friends hid.

Example 3: The old banyan tree in the village is over a hundred years old.

Fun Fact

The cent in words such as century and per cent comes from centum, the Latin word for a hundred.

Practise the CREST Way

Spellacadabra

Choose the correct option to make a meaningful word:

h_ndred

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

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d) u. The first vowel is the short u of sun.

Jumble Tumble

What is the meaning of the word that can be formed from the given letters?

drudhen

a) ten lots of ten
b) nine lots of nine
c) five lots of five
d) two lots of six

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a) ten lots of ten. Unjumbled, drudhen gives hundred, which is ten tens.

Word Champ

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

hundred

a) runner
b) dune
c) herd
d) under

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a) runner. Runner calls for a double n and a second r, more than hundred holds.

Spell Spies

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) fourty
b) ninety
c) seventy
d) thousand

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a) fourty. Four keeps its u, but forty drops it.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many hundreds make one thousand?

a) twelve
b) fifty
c) ten
d) five

Show answer

c) ten

2. Rohan has saved a few hundred rupees. What can he most likely buy?

a) a house
b) a scooter
c) a school bag
d) a new car

Show answer

c) a school bag

Associated Words

Words that end in -red: unanswered, tattered, shred

More words from this list

multiplication, robot, stencil, tumbler, angel, certificate, cuddly, evaporation

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