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Spell Bee Word: Laugh


What does laugh mean?

Word: Laugh

Part of Speech: Verb

Meaning: Laugh means to make happy sounds with your mouth and face when something is funny.

Synonyms: giggle, chuckle

Antonyms: weep

How do you spell laugh?

Syllables: laugh

Tricky part: We hear an f sound at the end, but laugh ends in the two letters g and h. There is no letter f in it at all.

Watch out for: laff, lauf

Memory tip: Read the letters as a short saying: Laugh And U Get Happy. The first letters spell l-a-u-g-h.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. laugh your head off: To laugh very loudly and for a long time. Example: "We laughed our heads off at the puppet show."

Laugh in a sentence

Example 1: The baby laughs when Papa makes funny faces.

Example 2: Rohan told a joke and the whole class laughed.

Example 3: Please do not laugh at someone who falls down.

Fun Fact

Long ago the gh in laugh was spoken as a rough sound in the throat. Over hundreds of years that sound changed into f, but the old spelling stayed.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Connection

Choose the antonym of the word:

laugh

a) grin
b) cry
c) play
d) clap

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b) cry. We laugh when we are happy and cry when we are sad, so they are opposites.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) funny
b) lawgh
c) giggle
d) tickle

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b) lawgh. Laugh has no w in it.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

laughe

a) u
b) g
c) h
d) e

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d) e. Laugh stops at the h; nothing comes after it.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

hgalu

a) ualgh
b) alugh
c) luagh
d) laugh

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d) laugh. Begin with l and keep the g and h pair together.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What usually makes people laugh?

a) a silly joke
b) a long queue
c) a lost pencil
d) a scraped knee

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a) a silly joke

2. Which sound is a laugh?

a) ha ha ha
b) achoo
c) boo hoo
d) zzz

Show answer

a) ha ha ha

Associated Words

gownbleedsixteentownempty
minutemulenosecheetahblackberry

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party, Saturday, switch, yak, beetroot, chest, dragon, garlic

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