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Spell Bee Word: Seahorse


What does seahorse mean?

Word: Seahorse

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Seahorse means a small sea creature that swims upright. Its head is shaped a little like a horse's head.

How do you spell seahorse?

Syllables: sea - horse

Tricky part: It is one word with no space. The first part is the sea where the animal lives, so it is spelt with ea, not ee.

Watch out for: seahors, sehorse

Memory tip: Picture a tiny horse galloping under the waves. Where does it live? In the sea. So the word starts with sea, not see.

Seahorse in a sentence

Example 1: We watched a seahorse bob gently in the tank at the aquarium.

Example 2: A seahorse swims slowly with its body held upright.

Example 3: Kavya drew an orange seahorse in her ocean picture.

Fun Fact

In seahorse families it is the father who carries the eggs, in a pouch on his belly, until the babies are born.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) seahaurse
b) seahorse
c) seahoorse
d) seahourse

Show answer

b) seahorse. After the h comes a plain o and then the r, with no a or u added.

Word Chain

Complete the word sequence:

____, turtle, shark, whale

a) elephant
b) seahorse
c) camel
d) giraffe

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b) seahorse. Each sea animal is bigger than the one before, and the little seahorse is the smallest of them.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

seahorsse

a) h
b) s
c) o
d) e

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b) s. Two letters side by side are the same here, and one of them has to go.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Mina saw a seahorce on our trip to the beach.

a) Mina
b) seahorce
c) beach
d) trip

Show answer

b) seahorce. Seahorce is wrong: that sound is written with an s, as in house.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A seahorse is really a kind of ____.

a) crab
b) fish
c) horse
d) jellyfish

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b) fish

2. Which part of its body does a seahorse wrap round a sea plant to hold on?

a) its fins
b) its head
c) its mouth
d) its tail

Show answer

d) its tail

Associated Words

Words that end in -rse: nurse, reverse, universe, verse

More words from this list

submarine, birthday, confetti, eyelash, happy, leopard, parade, scarf

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