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Spell Bee Word: Nickel


What does nickel mean?

Word: Nickel

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Nickel means a hard silvery-white metal that is often mixed with other metals.

How do you spell nickel?

Syllables: nick - el

Tricky part: The ending catches children out. Words that sound like this one usually end in le, so they turn the last two letters round.

Watch out for: nickle, nikle

Memory tip: While you write, lean hard on the end of the word and say it as ELL, so that the e comes out before the l.

Nickel in a sentence

Example 1: Stainless steel kitchen sinks contain a little nickel.

Example 2: This old coin is made of a mix of copper and nickel.

Example 3: A strong magnet can pick up a small piece of nickel.

Fun Fact

In the United States and Canada a five-cent coin is called a nickel, even though the US coin is about three quarters copper.

Practise the CREST Way

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

ekclin

a) trickle
b) nickel
c) pickle
d) knuckle

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b) nickel. Pickle and trickle have no n, and knuckle has a u the jumble lacks.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:

n_c_el

a) i, c
b) e, k
c) i, k
d) a, k

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c) i, k. Think of the short sound in pick; the c then has a k beside it.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

nicckel

a) l
b) k
c) c
d) n

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c) c. The k already follows a c, so a second c has no job to do.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) alluminium
b) nickel
c) platinam
d) bronse

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b) nickel. Aluminium has one l, platinum ends in um, and bronze has a z.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Nickel belongs in the same group as ____.

a) iron, copper and zinc
b) wheat, rice and barley
c) oak, teak and pine
d) cotton, wool and silk

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a) iron, copper and zinc

2. What makes nickel useful in coins?

a) It is soft and bends very easily
b) It is hard and does not rust easily
c) It is clear and looks like glass
d) It is rare and costs more than gold

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b) It is hard and does not rust easily

Associated Words

More Class 4 Summer Spell Bee words starting with n: negotiate, necessary, narrator, novelist, nephew, nylon

More words from this list

radiant, spare, unknown, apartment, colon, dislodge, frontier, inward

Next steps

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