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Spell Bee Word: Meerkat


What does meerkat mean?

Word: Meerkat

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Meerkat means a small, furry animal that lives in groups and often stands up on its back legs to look around.

How do you spell meerkat?

Syllables: meer - kat

Tricky part: The k sound near the end is spelt with a k, not a c. Meercat is the slip to watch.

Watch out for: meercat, mierkat

Memory tip: A meerkat is not a cat, so it does not use c: its k stands up tall, like a meerkat on guard.

Meerkat in a sentence

Example 1: The meerkat stood up straight to look for danger.

Example 2: We saw a family of meerkats at the zoo.

Example 3: Baby meerkats stay close to their mother.

Fun Fact

Meerkats take turns to keep watch. One stands guard and gives a call if it sees an eagle, while the others look for food.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) mearkat
b) meerkat
c) meirkat
d) merkat

Show answer

b) meerkat. Meerkat starts with meer, with two e's.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

meerkatt

a) k
b) t
c) e
d) a

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b) t. Meerkat ends with a single t.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

taemkre

a) mreekat
b) emerkat
c) reemkat
d) meerkat

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d) meerkat. Find the k first, then build the rest of the animal's name around it.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

The baby meerkat was hungery after its nap.

a) baby
b) hungery
c) after
d) nap

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b) hungery. Hungry has no e between the g and the r.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Meerkats dig homes under the ground called ____.

a) hives
b) nests
c) burrows
d) stables

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c) burrows

2. Wild meerkats live in ____.

a) Australia
b) Antarctica
c) Africa
d) Europe

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c) Africa

Associated Words

More Class 1 Summer Spell Bee words starting with m: muffin, mother, mare, moon, monkey, morning

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