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Spell Bee Word: Lily


What does lily mean?

Word: Lily

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Lily means a tall plant with large, bell-shaped or star-shaped flowers.

How do you spell lily?

Syllables: lil - y

Tricky part: Lily has two l's, but they never sit side by side: one starts the word and one is in the middle. Lilly is a common slip.

Watch out for: liley, lilli

Memory tip: Picture two tall lily stems standing apart in a pot, with a little gap between them.

Lily in a sentence

Example 1: A white lily opened in the garden.

Example 2: Didi put a pink lily in a glass vase.

Example 3: Grandma grows tall orange lilies in big pots.

Fun Fact

A lily grows from a bulb, a round store of food under the ground, much as an onion does.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) lilie
b) lilee
c) lili
d) lily

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d) lily. Lily ends with a y, as baby and happy do.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

l_ly

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

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a) i. The short i sound after the first l is the letter i.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

lyli

a) liyl
b) lyil
c) ilyl
d) lily

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d) lily. The two l's must not touch, so something has to sit between them.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

A beutiful white lily grew by the pond.

a) white
b) beutiful
c) grew
d) pond

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b) beutiful. Beautiful starts b-e-a-u: the e comes before the a and the u.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Like the lily, which of these is a flower?

a) cabbage
b) carrot
c) tulip
d) turnip

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c) tulip

2. Grandma wants her lilies to grow tall. What should she give them?

a) oil and smoke
b) salt and sand
c) water and sunlight
d) ice and darkness

Show answer

c) water and sunlight

Associated Words

partychillifishfightgown
pantsskateboardactorripplewatermelon

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people, scooter, tasty, ability, bicycle, circus, driver, glad

Next steps

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