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Spell Bee Word: Nest


What does nest mean?

Word: Nest

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Nest means a home that a bird builds from twigs, grass and leaves to lay its eggs in.

How do you spell nest?

Syllables: nest

Tricky part: Nest has just one vowel, a short e. Children sometimes add an a and write neast, or write nist.

Watch out for: neast, nist, neist

Memory tip: Nest has the same short e as egg, and there is an egg in the nest.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. leave the nest: When a grown-up child moves out of home to live on their own. Example: "My cousin left the nest to study in Pune."

Nest in a sentence

Example 1: A sparrow built a nest on our balcony.

Example 2: There are three tiny eggs in the nest.

Example 3: The baby birds chirped in their nest.

Fun Fact

The baya weaver bird knots strips of grass into a hanging nest shaped like a bottle.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) nesd
b) nes
c) nest
d) nestt

Show answer

c) nest. Nest ends with one t, and nothing comes after it.

Word Chain

Complete the word sequence:

egg, ____, tree, forest

a) nest
b) feather
c) wing
d) beak

Show answer

a) nest. Each one sits inside the next: an egg in a nest, a nest in a tree, a tree in a forest.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

ne_t

a) p
b) s
c) l
d) k

Show answer

b) s. A hissing s sound comes just before the t.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A bird sits on the eggs in its nest to keep them ____.

a) cold
b) wet
c) clean
d) warm

Show answer

d) warm

2. Where would you most likely find a nest?

a) under a rock
b) on a tree branch
c) at the bottom of a pond
d) inside a cave

Show answer

b) on a tree branch

Associated Words

More Class 1 Summer Spell Bee words starting with n: naughty, natural, napkin, November, nose, needle

More words from this list

result, soup, unicycle, avoid, camera, dancer, flight, imagine

Next steps

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