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Spell Bee Word: Market


What does market mean?

Word: Market

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Market means a place where people buy and sell things such as fruit, vegetables, fish and clothes.

Synonyms: bazaar

How do you spell market?

Syllables: mar - ket

Tricky part: The ending is et, not it. Children often write markit.

Watch out for: markit, markut

Memory tip: A jet zooms over the market: market ends with the et of jet.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. in the market for: Wanting to buy something. Example: "Papa is in the market for a second-hand cycle."

Market in a sentence

Example 1: We buy fresh vegetables at the Sunday market.

Example 2: Crawford Market in Mumbai is always busy.

Example 3: The fish market opens before sunrise.

Fun Fact

Ima Keithel in Imphal, Manipur, is a market run almost entirely by women, and it is several hundred years old.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) shopkeeper
b) vegetable
c) merket
d) basket

Show answer

c) merket. The first vowel in market is a, the same sound as in car.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

kertam

a) makret
b) market
c) amrket
d) mraket

Show answer

b) market. Each wrong option swaps two letters near the start; only market keeps them in order.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

marrket

a) m
b) t
c) r
d) k

Show answer

c) r. Like car and star, the mar part takes one r.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

mar_et

a) k
b) c
c) g
d) b

Show answer

a) k. The sound after the r is made by k alone.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these is sold at a vegetable market?

a) school desks
b) tomatoes
c) train tickets
d) library books

Show answer

b) tomatoes

2. Mama takes a cloth bag to the market to ____.

a) post a letter
b) borrow a book
c) carry the things she buys
d) pay the bus fare

Show answer

c) carry the things she buys

Associated Words

mumblelightningappointmenthumorousobserve
walletbasketballroughretrowhatever

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