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Spell Bee Word: Please


What does please mean?

Word: Please

Part of Speech: Verb

Meaning: Please means to make someone happy. Please is also the polite word you add when you ask for something.

Synonyms: delight, satisfy

Antonyms: annoy

How do you spell please?

Syllables: please

Tricky part: The ee sound is written ea, as in eat and sea. Children often write pleez or pleese.

Watch out for: pleez, pleese, pliz

Memory tip: Please, tea and sea share the same e-a: Please may I have some tea by the sea?

Please in a sentence

Example 1: May I have some water, please?

Example 2: Riya drew a card to please her grandmother.

Example 3: Please shut the door when you go out.

Fun Fact

Please is a short form of if you please, which people said long ago when asking politely.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Connection

Choose the antonym of the word:

please

a) thank
b) displease
c) amuse
d) cheer

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b) displease. Dis turns please around: to displease someone is to make them unhappy.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) pleace
b) pleaze
c) pleasse
d) please

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d) please. The buzzing sound near the end is written with a single s.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

pleas_

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

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b) e. Please ends with a silent e, like cheese and these.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Please help Grandma carry the vegtables home.

a) vegtables
b) carry
c) help
d) home

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a) vegtables. Vegetables has an e after the g: veg-e-ta-bles.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Raju's neat work pleased his teacher. How did she feel?

a) sleepy
b) cross
c) glad
d) bored

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c) glad

2. Choose the word that rhymes with please.

a) press
b) police
c) cheese
d) place

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c) cheese

Associated Words

Words that end in -ease: decrease, increase, cease, ease

Related words on the Spell Bee lists: delight, satisfy, annoy

More words from this list

thick, yesterday, brush, curious, freeze, hippopotamus, mail, pineapple

Next steps

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