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Spell Bee Word: Photographer


What does photographer mean?

Word: Photographer

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Photographer means a person who takes photographs, often as a job.

How do you spell photographer?

Syllables: pho - tog - ra - pher

Tricky part: The f sound is spelt ph twice, once in photo and once in graph.

Watch out for: fotographer, photografer, fotografer

Memory tip: Look for the two ph's: one opens photo and the other sits inside graph.

Photographer in a sentence

Example 1: The photographer asked us to say cheese.

Example 2: A photographer waited for hours to catch the tiger on camera.

Example 3: My uncle is the photographer at every family wedding.

Fun Fact

The word photographer was first used in the 1840s, only a few years after photography itself was invented.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Makeup

Choose the suffix that completes the word:

photograph

a) ar
b) or
c) er
d) ur

Show answer

c) er. Add er to photograph for the person who takes photos, as farm gives farmer.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:

phot_gr_pher

a) u, a
b) o, a
c) o, e
d) a, a

Show answer

b) o, a. Photo keeps its o and graph keeps its a, even though both are said quickly.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) carpinter
b) musicien
c) photographer
d) dentest

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c) photographer. Carpenter, musician and dentist are misspelt here; photographer, with its two ph's, is correct.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the main tool of a photographer?

a) a stethoscope
b) a hammer
c) a camera
d) a paintbrush

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c) a camera

2. Photographer is to photograph as painter is to ____.

a) brush
b) painting
c) artist
d) colour

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b) painting

Associated Words

Words that end in -apher: oceanographer, choreographer, cartographer, radiographer

More words from this list

restless, surface, whimsy, ballet, critical, eliminate, guilty, lorry

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