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Spell Bee Word: Lintel


What does lintel mean?

Word: Lintel

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Lintel means a flat piece of wood, stone or concrete across the top of a door or window.

How do you spell lintel?

Syllables: lin - tel

Tricky part: The ending is el, not le. Pupils often copy words like little and write lintle.

Watch out for: lintle, linteel

Memory tip: A builder checks a new lintel with a spirit level, and level ends the same way.

Lintel in a sentence

Example 1: My tall uncle has to duck under the low stone lintel of the old farmhouse.

Example 2: The carpenter fixed a new wooden lintel above the kitchen window.

Example 3: Beautiful flowers were carved into the lintel over the main door.

Fun Fact

The great stones laid across the tops of the uprights at Stonehenge are also called lintels. They were held in place with joints copied from woodwork.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Cookie

Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:

l_n_el

a) i, d
b) a, t
c) i, t
d) e, t

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c) i, t. The first beat has the vowel of pin, and a hard consonant starts the second.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

linntel

a) n
b) e
c) l
d) t

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a) n. Say lin-tel: the n is written once.

Spell-o-Spell

Three words in the list are spelt correctly and one is misspelt. Choose the meaning of the misspelt word.

1. cornise 2. gable 3. rafter 4. lintel

a) the triangle of wall under a sloping roof
b) a sloping beam that holds up a roof
c) a beam across the top of a window
d) a decorative border along the top of a wall

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d) a decorative border along the top of a wall. Cornice ends in ice, not ise.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What job does a lintel do?

a) hiding the electric wiring
b) keeping the door from swinging shut
c) carrying the wall above an opening
d) letting daylight into the room

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c) carrying the wall above an opening

2. Which food has exactly the same letters as lintel?

a) lettuce
b) lemon
c) lentil
d) litchi

Show answer

c) lentil

Associated Words

More Class 7 Summer Spell Bee words starting with li: lithe, lieutenant, limousine, litigation, lineage

More words from this list

permission, relieve, symbolic, ammonia, complexion, desirous, extensive, implication

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