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Spell Bee Word: Pilot


What does pilot mean?

Word: Pilot

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Pilot means a person who flies an aeroplane or a helicopter.

How do you spell pilot?

Syllables: pi - lot

Tricky part: The first vowel is an i that says its own name: pi-lot. Do not write py or pie.

Watch out for: pylot, pielot, pyelot

Memory tip: Think of pi-lot: the i sounds like 'eye', because a pilot keeps an eye on the sky.

Pilot in a sentence

Example 1: The pilot said hello to everyone on the plane.

Example 2: My cousin wants to become a pilot when she grows up.

Example 3: The pilot landed the plane safely in the rain.

Fun Fact

Not every pilot flies. A ship's pilot is a person who guides big ships safely in and out of a harbour.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) pilot
b) pilott
c) pillot
d) pilote

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a) pilot. Pilot has just one l, one t and no e at the end.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

tilop

a) poilt
b) pilot
c) plito
d) piolt

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b) pilot. Say the word in two beats and match each beat to the letters.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

pil_t

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

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b) o. Say pi-lot slowly and you can hear the o.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

The pilot smiled and waved at the childern.

a) smiled
b) childern
c) pilot
d) waved

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b) childern. Children ends r-e-n: c-h-i-l-d-r-e-n.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A pilot sits at the front of a plane in the ____.

a) engine
b) wing
c) cockpit
d) tail

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c) cockpit

2. Before take-off, a pilot talks to the people in the ____ tower.

a) bell
b) clock
c) water
d) control

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d) control

Associated Words

More Class 1 Summer Spell Bee words starting with p: panther, policeman, painter, pollution, pretty, potato

More words from this list

seagull, teach, abroad, biscuit, clean, dull, glide, letter

Next steps

How to participate in CREST International Spell Bee

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