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Spell Bee Word: Pharmacy

Pharmacy (noun): a shop where medicines are sold. The person who works there and gives out the medicines is called a pharmacist or chemist.

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What does pharmacy mean?

Word: Pharmacy

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Pharmacy means a shop where medicines are sold. The person who works there and gives out the medicines is called a pharmacist or chemist.

Synonyms: chemist's shop, medical store

How do you spell pharmacy?

Syllables: phar - ma - cy

Tricky part: The f sound at the start is spelt ph, as in phone. Children often write farmacy.

Watch out for: farmacy, fharmacy

Memory tip: Pharmacy, phone and photo all use ph for the f sound. You might phone the pharmacy to ask if a medicine is in stock.

Pharmacy in a sentence

Example 1: Papa bought cough syrup from the pharmacy near our house.

Example 2: The pharmacy stays open late at night.

Example 3: There is a green cross on the pharmacy sign.

Fun Fact

The word comes from the Greek pharmakon, which meant a medicine or remedy.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) hospital
b) medicine
c) pharmasy
d) doctor

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c) pharmasy. The s sound at the end of pharmacy comes from c-y, the same as in fancy.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

cyrmapha

a) phamracy
b) pharmacy
c) phramacy
d) pharamcy

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b) pharmacy. After ph, the middle sounds like arm, and those three letters stay in that order.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

pharm_cy

a) o
b) i
c) a
d) e

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c) a. Say it clearly, phar-ma-cy: the middle beat is ma, with an a.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Apart from medicines, what else might a pharmacy sell?

a) fresh fish
b) flower pots
c) plasters
d) school shoes

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c) plasters

2. Why do some pharmacies stay open all night?

a) the shopkeepers like to stay up
b) people may need medicine at any hour
c) the medicines spoil in daylight
d) the street lights are on

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b) people may need medicine at any hour

Associated Words

More Class 2 Summer Spell Bee words starting with p: planet, park, publish, plank, please, pyjamas

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