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Spell Bee Word: Popular


What does popular mean?

Word: Popular

Part of Speech: Adjective

Meaning: Popular means liked or enjoyed by many people.

Synonyms: well liked, favourite, loved

Antonyms: unpopular

How do you spell popular?

Syllables: pop - u - lar

Tricky part: The ending is ar, not er: populer is the common slip.

Watch out for: populer, populare

Memory tip: Popular people are stars, and star ends in ar. So does popular.

Popular in a sentence

Example 1: The pancake stall is the most popular one at our school fair.

Example 2: The new mystery series is popular with readers of all ages.

Example 3: Women's football has become very popular since the league matches began on television.

Fun Fact

Popular first meant belonging to the ordinary people, a sense still heard in phrases like popular vote; the sense of well liked came later.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

poppular

a) p
b) u
c) o
d) l

Show answer

a) p. Pop opens the word with a single p before the u.

Word Connection

Choose the antonym of the word:

popular

a) admired
b) celebrated
c) disliked
d) famous

Show answer

c) disliked. Famous, admired and celebrated say much the same as popular; disliked says the opposite.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

pprualo

a) popular
b) polar
c) poplar
d) regular

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a) popular. Poplar and polar have no u, and regular needs a g and an e.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) celebraty
b) audiance
c) fameous
d) popular

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d) popular. Celebrity has an i before ty, famous drops the e of fame and audience ends in ence.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which is the clearest sign that a new song is popular?

a) it was written in a small room
b) it lasts exactly four minutes
c) crowds sing along at every concert
d) the singer recorded it in one day

Show answer

c) crowds sing along at every concert

2. A popular holiday spot is usually ____.

a) hard to find on a map
b) closed all year
c) visited by nobody
d) crowded with visitors

Show answer

d) crowded with visitors

Associated Words

Words that end in -ular: muscular, particular, rectangular, spectacular, circular

Related words on the Spell Bee lists: favourite

More words from this list

splendid, virologist, amendment, cartographer, cultivator, equilateral, hedge, meagre

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