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Spell Bee Word: Laptop


What does laptop mean?

Word: Laptop

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Laptop means a small computer that folds shut, runs on a battery and can be carried from place to place.

How do you spell laptop?

Syllables: lap - top

Tricky part: It is one word with no space or hyphen. Lap top, written as two words, is the slip teachers see most often.

Watch out for: lap top, laptob

Memory tip: One machine, one word: close the gap between the halves the way you close the lid when you finish.

Laptop in a sentence

Example 1: Didi joins her online class on a laptop.

Example 2: Papa carries his laptop to the office in a black bag.

Example 3: Close the laptop gently or the screen may crack.

Fun Fact

Some of the first carry-around computers, made in the early 1980s, weighed more than 10 kilograms. People jokingly called them luggables.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Makeup

Choose the correctly spelt compound word:

a) labtop
b) lapptop
c) laptop
d) laptopp

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c) laptop. No letter in this word is doubled, and there is no b in it.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

plotap

a) lapotp
b) latpop
c) laptop
d) paltop

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c) laptop. Only one order gives a real word; the other three are the same six letters in a muddle.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) keyboard
b) leptop
c) monitor
d) printer

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b) leptop. Keyboard, monitor and printer are all spelt right; laptop starts with l-a, not l-e.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Neha left her laptap on the bus seat.

a) left
b) seat
c) bus
d) laptap

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d) laptap. The second half of laptop is top, not tap.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. People call a laptop portable because it is ____.

a) made of plastic
b) always switched on
c) easy to carry around
d) very cheap to buy

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c) easy to carry around

2. A laptop usually has ____ built into it.

a) a printer
b) a projector
c) a keyboard
d) a scanner

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c) a keyboard

Associated Words

advantagehurricanedevelopexplodeassemble
indifferenceboldperformsnowboardingdiamond

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