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Spell Bee Word: Ninety


What does ninety mean?

Word: Ninety

Part of Speech: Number

Meaning: Ninety means the number 90, written as a 9 followed by a 0.

How do you spell ninety?

Syllables: nine - ty

Tricky part: Students keep the letter e out of this word and write ninty, as if it had gone the way of ninth. Here the e stays.

Watch out for: ninty, nintey

Memory tip: Think of nineteen: it keeps the e of nine, and this word keeps it too.

Ninety in a sentence

Example 1: My great-grandmother will be ninety next spring.

Example 2: The cricket match was stopped for rain with the score on ninety.

Example 3: It takes about ninety minutes to play a football match.

Fun Fact

In France, this number is quatre-vingt-dix, which means four twenties and ten.

Practise the CREST Way

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

tnyeni

a) twenty
b) ninety
c) nicety
d) ninth

Show answer

b) ninety. Nicety needs a c, twenty a w, and ninth is too short, so one option fits.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:

n_net_

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

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a) i, y. The number word opens with the long i of nice, and it closes with y, like twenty and thirty.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

ninnety

a) t
b) y
c) n
d) e

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c) n. The number nine has a single n before its e, and that does not change.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) eigthy
b) fourty
c) ninety
d) twelth

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c) ninety. Forty has no u, twelfth has an f, and eighty has the h straight after the g.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which sum makes ninety?

a) 60 + 40
b) 50 + 30
c) 40 + 40
d) 45 + 45

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d) 45 + 45

2. A batter is on ninety. How many more runs does she need for a century?

a) nine
b) nineteen
c) twenty
d) ten

Show answer

d) ten

Associated Words

More Class 5 Summer Spell Bee words starting with n: nuzzle, navigator, negligent, numeral, numerous, navigate

More words from this list

refrigerator, territory, angelic, bristle, contagious, discourage, fodder, initiate

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