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Spell Bee Word: Octopus


What does octopus mean?

Word: Octopus

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Octopus means a soft sea animal with no bones and eight long arms covered with suckers.

Word origin: Comes from Greek words meaning 'eight feet'.

How do you spell octopus?

Syllables: oc - to - pus

Tricky part: The first part is octo, which means eight, so the middle vowel is o.

Watch out for: octapus, octupus, actopus

Memory tip: Octo means eight: October was the eighth month of the old Roman year, and an octopus has eight arms.

Octopus in a sentence

Example 1: The octopus squirted ink and swam away.

Example 2: An octopus can squeeze through a very small gap.

Example 3: We watched an octopus change colour on a nature programme.

Fun Fact

An octopus has three hearts.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) octopus
b) octopis
c) octopuss
d) octopous

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a) octopus. The end is short: one u and one s.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

suptoco

a) octoups
b) octopus
c) octosup
d) octospu

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b) octopus. All four start with octo; only one ends the way the word sounds.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

octoppus

a) s
b) p
c) o
d) c

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b) p. Only one p is needed between the o and the u.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. An octopus can change colour. Why does it do this?

a) to swim faster
b) to hide from enemies
c) to keep itself warm
d) to see in the dark

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b) to hide from enemies

2. What does an octopus mostly eat?

a) tiny floating plants
b) sand and mud
c) crabs and shellfish
d) seaweed and sea grass

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c) crabs and shellfish

Associated Words

More Class 2 Summer Spell Bee words starting with o: observe, ostrich, object, ozone, order, oven

More words from this list

river, stall, vulture, backpack, chimpanzee, earn, grandparent, jumpsuit

Next steps

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