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Spell Bee Word: Pour


What does pour mean?

Word: Pour

Part of Speech: Verb

Meaning: Pour means to make a liquid run out of a container, such as milk from a jug; also, for rain to come down hard.

Synonyms: stream, gush

Sounds like: pore (a tiny opening in the skin)

How do you spell pour?

Syllables: pour

Tricky part: The sound is like or, but it is spelt our. Do not mix it up with pore, a tiny hole in the skin.

Watch out for: poure, pouer, poar

Memory tip: Picture a jug pouring: the o and the u are its round mouth and the r is its handle, in that order.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. it never rains but it pours: when one bad thing happens, others often follow quickly Example: "First I missed the bus, then I forgot my lunch; it never rains but it pours."
  2. pour your heart out: to tell someone all your feelings Example: "Riya poured her heart out to her best friend after the match."

Pour in a sentence

Example 1: Dad poured hot water into the teapot.

Example 2: It began to pour just as we reached the bus stop.

Example 3: Fans poured out of the stadium after the final.

Fun Fact

Nobody is quite sure where pour came from: it appeared in English about 700 years ago and its earlier history is unknown.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Pour the water gentley so that the seeds in the pot are not washed away.

a) Pour
b) seeds
c) washed
d) gentley

Show answer

d) gentley. Gently is gentle with its le turned into ly, so no e comes before the y.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) spil
b) pour
c) buckit
d) kettel

Show answer

b) pour. Of the four, only pour is right; the kitchen words should be kettle, bucket and spill.

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word:

pour

a) sip
b) flow
c) soak
d) drip

Show answer

b) flow. Water that pours out flows freely; a drip is only a drop at a time.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Pick the thing you could pour from a jug:

a) cold milk
b) a bunch of grapes
c) a hard-boiled egg
d) a block of ice

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a) cold milk

2. Which sentence uses pour correctly?

a) He was too pour to buy a ticket.
b) Sweat came out of every pour.
c) Please pour the water into the bucket.
d) The dog licked its sore pour.

Show answer

c) Please pour the water into the bucket.

Associated Words

Related words on the Spell Bee lists: stream, gush

More words from this list

scoreboard, timid, accommodation, browser, deliberate, even, horrible, meander

Next steps

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