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Spell Bee Word: Rainbow


What does rainbow mean?

Word: Rainbow

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Rainbow means a curved band of colours in the sky. You see it when sunlight shines through raindrops.

How do you spell rainbow?

Syllables: rain - bow

Tricky part: It is two words joined together, and each half keeps all its letters. The i in the first half and the w at the very end are the ones that tend to go missing.

Watch out for: reinbow, rianbow

Memory tip: Think of the dot on the i as a raindrop, and picture the w at the end as two little waves of colour.

Rainbow in a sentence

Example 1: We saw a rainbow over the hills after the shower.

Example 2: Riya used seven crayons to draw her rainbow.

Example 3: Look, there is a rainbow behind the school building.

Fun Fact

You can only see a rainbow when the sun is behind you and the rain is in front of you.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) raimbow
b) sunshine
c) thunder
d) colourful

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a) raimbow. Rainbow has an n before the b, not an m.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

nabowir

a) rainbow
b) rainbwo
c) raibnow
d) rainobw

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a) rainbow. Two small words are hiding in these letters, one after the other.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

rainebow

a) a
b) b
c) n
d) e

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d) e. Take out the e and the two halves join up properly.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

rainb_w

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

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c) o. Only o fills the gap; rainbaw and rainbew are not words.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which colour is NOT one of the seven colours of a rainbow?

a) green
b) pink
c) orange
d) indigo

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b) pink

2. Which colour runs along the top of a rainbow?

a) violet
b) green
c) red
d) blue

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c) red

Associated Words

More Class 1 Summer Spell Bee words starting with r: rice, reveal, ride, recite, right, ribbon

More words from this list

snow, turtle, attach, busy, cruel, firefighter, hook, mule

Next steps

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