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Spell Bee Word: luggage


Basic Details

Word: Luggage

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: The bags, suitcases and boxes you carry with you when you travel.

Synonyms: baggage

How to Spell Luggage

Syllables: lug - gage

Tricky part: There are three g's: a double g in the middle and one more before the final e. Children often drop one and write lugage.

Watch out for: lugage, luggege, lugguage

Memory tip: Count the g's as you would count heavy bags: lu, then gg, then a, then g, then e. Three bags, three g's.

Usage Examples

Example 1: The porter at Howrah station balanced all our luggage on his head.

Example 2: Please keep your luggage under the seat during the bus ride.

Example 3: Our luggage went to the wrong city, so we wore the same clothes for two days.

Fun Fact

The word was formed from the verb lug, which means to drag or carry something heavy with effort.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) luggage
b) sutecase
c) tickit
d) pasport

Show answer

a) luggage. Pack the travel words carefully: passport has ss, ticket has ck and et, and suitcase keeps its ui.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

gugleag

a) baggage
b) luggage
c) plumage
d) language

Show answer

b) luggage. Three g's, a u and one a: language needs an n, and baggage has no l.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:

l_gg_ge

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

Show answer

c) u, a. Lug sounds like rug and the end is age, as in village.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Luggage is a word for ____.

a) things you carry when you travel
b) food served on a train
c) a ticket for a flight
d) a place to park cars

Show answer

a) things you carry when you travel

2. Which sentence uses the word correctly?

a) We drank our luggage after lunch.
b) She planted luggage in the garden.
c) We loaded our luggage into the car boot.
d) The luggage sang a song.

Show answer

c) We loaded our luggage into the car boot.

Associated Words

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Next steps

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