Spell Bee Word: Ridge

What does ridge mean?

Word: Ridge

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Ridge means a long, narrow, raised strip of land, such as the line along the top of a row of hills.

How do you spell ridge?

Syllables: ridge

Tricky part: The j sound at the end needs a silent d before the g, and children often leave the d out.

Watch out for: rige, ridje

Memory tip: A silent d stands guard in front of the g. You cannot hear it, but the word falls apart without it.

Ridge in a sentence

Example 1: We walked along the ridge and stopped to eat our lunch at the top.

Example 2: Snow was still lying on the high ridge in May.

Example 3: Tea bushes grow in neat rows across every ridge near Darjeeling.

Fun Fact

The word is used for raised lines that are not land at all: the ridges on the edge of some coins, the ridges on a corduroy shirt, and the tiny ridges on your fingertips that make your fingerprints.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Cookie

Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:

r_dg_

a) e, a
b) i, e
c) e, e
d) i, a

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) canyon
b) volcanoe
c) valley
d) ridge

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

From the ridge, we watched the sun set slowly behind the mountians.

a) ridge
b) slowly
c) mountians
d) watched

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hikers walking along a ridge would enjoy ____.

a) the walls of a cave all around them
b) a view of the land below on both sides
c) sand dunes in every direction
d) water up to their knees

2. On a house, the ridge is the ____.

a) pipe that carries rainwater down the wall
b) window set into the slope of the roof
c) low wall around the bottom of the garden
d) line along the top where two roof slopes meet