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Spell Bee Word: Selfie


What does selfie mean?

Word: Selfie

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Selfie means a photo that you take of yourself, usually with a mobile phone held at arm's length.

How do you spell selfie?

Syllables: self - ie

Tricky part: The end is ie, as in cookie and movie, not y or ee.

Watch out for: selfy, selfee, sellfie

Memory tip: Think of self, the word for you, and give it a small tail at the end: ie.

Selfie in a sentence

Example 1: Riya took a selfie with her grandmother at the wedding.

Example 2: We took a group selfie in front of the Eiffel Tower.

Example 3: We took a selfie on the beach at Bondi in Sydney.

Fun Fact

Oxford Dictionaries chose selfie as its Word of the Year in 2013.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Champ

Which of the words cannot be made using the letters in the given word?

selfie

a) file
b) lies
c) fish
d) feel

Show answer

c) fish. Fish needs an h, and selfie has none.

Jumble Tumble

Choose the correct sequence of the jumbled letters to form a meaningful word:

l i f e s e 1 2 3 4 5 6

a) 541326
b) 543126
c) 123456
d) 514326

Show answer

a) 541326. Letters 5, 4, 1, 3, 2 and 6 are s, e, l, f, i and e.

Spell Spies

Choose the option with no spelling errors:

a) selfie, camra, album, frame
b) selfie, camera, album, frame
c) selfie, cammera, album, frayme
d) selfie, camera, albam, fraim

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b) selfie, camera, album, frame. Camera has one m and an e in the middle, album ends in um, and frame ends in me.

Spellacadabra

From which option does a letter need to be removed to make a meaningful word?

a) picture
b) mobbile
c) selfie
d) camera

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b) mobbile. Mobile has a single b.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A selfie stick is used to ______.

a) make the photo brighter
b) clean the camera lens
c) hold the phone further away
d) keep the phone charged

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c) hold the phone further away

2. A group selfie shows ______.

a) a building with no people
b) a few friends together
c) a pet sleeping alone
d) one person on their own

Show answer

b) a few friends together

Associated Words

More Class 3 Winter Spell Bee words starting with s: sort, swarm, sieve, savings, sprout, smock

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