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Spell Bee Word: Pineapple


What does pineapple mean?

Word: Pineapple

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Pineapple means a big fruit with rough, spiky skin, stiff leaves on top and sweet, juicy yellow flesh inside.

How do you spell pineapple?

Syllables: pine - ap - ple

Tricky part: Children often drop the silent e in the middle and write pinapple.

Watch out for: pinapple, pinepple

Memory tip: A quiet e sits in the middle, just before the a: you never hear it, but it must be written.

Pineapple in a sentence

Example 1: Mum cut a pineapple into yellow rings.

Example 2: The pineapple juice was sweet and a little sour.

Example 3: We bought a pineapple from a cart near the beach.

Fun Fact

A pineapple plant takes about one and a half to two years to grow just one pineapple.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) pineapple
b) pineappel
c) pineappul
d) pineappal

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a) pineapple. It ends like table and candle, with le.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

pnaeplipe

a) pineaplpe
b) pineapple
c) pinepalpe
d) pineapepl

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b) pineapple. Two words you know are joined here; only one choice joins them without mixing up any letters.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

pineappple

a) a
b) p
c) e
d) l

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b) p. Two p's sit together in the middle, never three.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

p_neapple

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

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a) i. Like nine, this word's opening vowel says its own name.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Unlike a mango, a pineapple grows ____.

a) on a long, creeping vine
b) deep under the ground
c) on a tall, leafy tree
d) on a short, spiky plant

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d) on a short, spiky plant

2. Pineapples grow best in places that are ____.

a) cold and snowy
b) icy and windy
c) dark and shady
d) warm and sunny

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d) warm and sunny

Associated Words

Words that end in -ple: simple, ripple, maple, purple, people, apple

More words from this list

separate, taxi, worm, bounce, crayon, fluffy, hide, magician

Next steps

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