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Spell Bee Word: Minute


What does minute mean?

Word: Minute

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Minute means a short time. There are 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hour.

How do you spell minute?

Syllables: min - ute

Tricky part: We say min-it, but the word ends in ute. That is why minnit and minite turn up so often.

Watch out for: minnit, minite

Memory tip: A minute can be cute: minute ends with ute, the same as cute.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. wait a minute: Wait for a short time. Example: "Wait a minute, I am tying my shoelaces."

Minute in a sentence

Example 1: Brush your teeth for two minutes.

Example 2: The bus will come in five minutes.

Example 3: I can run around the park in one minute.

Fun Fact

A day has 1,440 minutes, because 24 hours times 60 minutes is 1,440.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) menute
b) birthday
c) second
d) calendar

Show answer

a) menute. Minute starts with mi, with an i.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

minnute

a) m
b) n
c) t
d) u

Show answer

b) n. Minute has only one n.

Word Chain

Complete the word sequence:

second, ____, hour, day

a) minute
b) month
c) week
d) year

Show answer

a) minute. Time units get longer along the line: seconds make a minute, and minutes make an hour.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these takes about one minute?

a) a whole school day
b) sleeping all night
c) a long train trip
d) singing a short rhyme

Show answer

d) singing a short rhyme

2. On a clock, which hand shows the minutes?

a) the short hand
b) the thick hand
c) the long hand
d) the alarm hand

Show answer

c) the long hand

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Next steps

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