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Spell Bee Word: Muscle


What does muscle mean?

Word: Muscle

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Muscle means one of the parts of your body under the skin that make your bones and body move.

Sounds like: mussel (a small sea creature that lives inside a dark shell with two halves)

How do you spell muscle?

Syllables: mus - cle

Tricky part: The c is silent, so children who write what they hear leave it out and put musle.

Watch out for: musle, mucsle

Memory tip: Your muscles help you move, but the c in this word never makes a sound: write it, then keep quiet.

Muscle in a sentence

Example 1: Swimming works almost every muscle in your body.

Example 2: Ravi felt the muscle in his arm go hard as he lifted his school bag.

Example 3: Our PE teacher showed us how to stretch each leg muscle after a run.

Fun Fact

Muscle comes from the Latin word musculus, meaning 'little mouse', perhaps because a muscle moving under the skin looked like a mouse running.

Practise the CREST Way

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

clemus

a) muscle
b) moscle
c) muscele
d) muscal

Show answer

a) muscle. The vowel after the m is a u, the same sound as in bus.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

musscle

a) u
b) c
c) s
d) l

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c) s. Only one s comes before the silent letter.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) knuckel
b) sholder
c) muscle
d) stumack

Show answer

c) muscle. Stomach, shoulder and knuckle each have a letter swapped or missing.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Riding my bicycle up the hill made a muscel in my leg feel tight.

a) muscel
b) tight
c) Riding
d) bicycle

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a) muscel. The word ends in le, as table does.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When you lift a heavy bucket, what do the muscles in your arm do?

a) they stay completely still
b) they grow longer and thinner
c) they become loose and floppy
d) they tighten and pull

Show answer

d) they tighten and pull

2. Which of these is a muscle?

a) a tooth
b) a rib
c) the heart
d) the skull

Show answer

c) the heart

Associated Words

Words that end in -cle: semicircle, oracle, motorcycle, cycle, barnacle, uncle

More words from this list

puppet, soul, Wednesday, barley, cleanser, diligence, foreword, intelligent

Next steps

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