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Spell Bee Word: Metre

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What does metre mean?

Word: Metre

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Metre means a unit for measuring length; one of them equals 100 centimetres.

Sounds like: meter (a machine that measures how much of something is used)

How do you spell metre?

Syllables: me - tre

Tricky part: In British English the unit ends in re, the same ending as litre and centre, even though we say it like ter.

Watch out for: metr, metere

Memory tip: Litre and metre are measuring cousins, and both finish with the same two letters in British spelling.

Metre in a sentence

Example 1: The swimming pool at our club is twenty-five metres long.

Example 2: Our teacher used a measuring tape to check that the table was one metre wide.

Example 3: The tiny frog can jump almost a metre in one go.

Next steps

Fun Fact

The metre was first defined in France in the 1790s as one ten-millionth of the distance from the North Pole to the equator.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Makeup

Choose the correct prefix to form a word:

metre

a) killo
b) kilow
c) kilo
d) kila

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c) kilo. A kilometre is a thousand metres, and kilo always has one l and ends in o.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) theatre
b) meetre
c) centre
d) litre

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b) meetre. Only one e comes before the t in metre.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

At sports day, Riya jumped a whole mettre further than she did last year.

a) year
b) jumped
c) mettre
d) further

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c) mettre. Metre has just one t.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these would you measure in metres?

a) the weight of a bag of rice
b) the length of a school corridor
c) the heat of a cup of tea
d) the time a film lasts

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b) the length of a school corridor

2. About how tall is the door of a house?

a) two centimetres
b) twenty metres
c) two metres
d) two hundred metres

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c) two metres

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