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Spell Bee Word: Nineteen


What does nineteen mean?

Word: Nineteen

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Nineteen means the number you get when you add nine to ten.

How do you spell nineteen?

Syllables: nine - teen

Tricky part: Keep the e at the end of nine when the rest of the word is added. Many children drop it.

Watch out for: ninteen, ninteeen

Memory tip: Nine keeps its e when it grows into nineteen, just as it does in ninety.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. talk nineteen to the dozen: To talk very fast without stopping. Example: "My cousins talked nineteen to the dozen at the wedding."

Nineteen in a sentence

Example 1: Our class has nineteen girls.

Example 2: Didi turns nineteen next week.

Example 3: I read nineteen pages of my storybook.

Fun Fact

Nineteen is a prime number: no number except 1 and itself divides it exactly.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) nineteen
b) ninetean
c) ninetene
d) ninetine

Show answer

a) nineteen. The last part has two e's together, as in green.

Word Chain

Complete the word sequence:

sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, ____

a) nineteen
b) ninety
c) twenty
d) fifteen

Show answer

a) nineteen. Count on by one: after eighteen comes this number.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

eintenne

a) nineente
b) ninenete
c) ninetnee
d) nineteen

Show answer

d) nineteen. Every choice starts with nine, so look closely at how each one ends.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

The bus has ninetteen seats for children.

a) children
b) bus
c) seats
d) ninetteen

Show answer

d) ninetteen. Only one t follows nine in this number.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ravi is nineteen. How old will he be in one year?

a) twenty-one
b) eighteen
c) twenty
d) ninety

Show answer

c) twenty

2. Which of these shows nineteen?

a) 9
b) 19
c) 91
d) 90

Show answer

b) 19

Associated Words

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Next steps

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