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Spell Bee Word: Nettle


What does nettle mean?

Word: Nettle

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Nettle means a wild plant with jagged leaves covered in tiny hairs that sting your skin if you touch them.

How do you spell nettle?

Syllables: net - tle

Tricky part: Two t's stand side by side in the middle. Children who hear only one t sound often write netle.

Watch out for: netle, nattle

Memory tip: Picture two tall stems growing side by side in the middle of the word: one stem for each t.

Nettle in a sentence

Example 1: Wear long socks, as nettles grow beside this path.

Example 2: Papa put on thick gloves to pull up the nettles in the garden.

Example 3: Butterflies often lay their eggs on nettle leaves.

Fun Fact

In the hills of Nepal, the tough stems of a giant nettle are still spun into thread for making cloth.

Practise the CREST Way

Spellacadabra

Choose the correct option to make a meaningful word:

nett__

a) le
b) el
c) ul
d) al

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a) le. This word finishes in the same way as little and bottle; nettel, nettal and nettul are not words.

Spell Spies

Choose the pair which has a spelling error:

a) nettle : nettles
b) daisy : daisies
c) rose : roses
d) lily : lilys

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d) lily : lilys. A word ending in a consonant and y changes the y to ies, so it should be lilies.

Sound Check

Which of the following words has the 'e' sound as in nettle?

a) raid
b) maid
c) paid
d) said

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d) said. Said is said 'sed', with a short e, even though it looks like paid, maid and raid.

Word Champ

Which of the words cannot be made using the letters in the given word?

nettle

a) tent
b) neat
c) teen
d) lent

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b) neat. Neat needs an a, and the given word has no a.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What should you do if you see a nettle on a walk?

a) stroke its leaves gently
b) keep your hands away
c) tuck it in your pocket
d) hold it in your palm

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b) keep your hands away

2. Which word best describes a nettle to most gardeners?

a) a fern
b) a weed
c) a tree
d) a fruit

Show answer

b) a weed

Associated Words

More Class 2 Winter Spell Bee words starting with n: nothing, nudge, noodle, newsletter, nutshell, news

More words from this list

pudding, similar, their, whiteboard, bleat, cuckoo, fidget, highway

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