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Spell Bee Word: Seller


What does seller mean?

Word: Seller

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Seller means a person or shop that sells something.

Synonyms: vendor, dealer, trader, merchant

Antonyms: customer, purchaser

Sounds like: cellar (a room under the ground floor of a building, used for storing things)

How do you spell seller?

Syllables: sel - ler

Tricky part: It keeps the double l of sell. Its sound-alike cellar, a room under a house, starts with c.

Watch out for: seler, saller

Memory tip: A seller sells: keep sell exactly as it is, then add the ending for the person.

Seller in a sentence

Example 1: The balloon seller at the fair had balloons shaped like fish.

Example 2: Ask the seller whether the bananas were grown nearby.

Example 3: The tea seller at the station knows every regular passenger by name.

Fun Fact

Seller and cellar sound the same but are not related. Seller comes from Old English sellan, to give, and cellar from Latin cellarium, a storeroom.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Connection

Choose the antonym of the word: seller

a) buyer
b) hawker
c) shopkeeper
d) supplier

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a) buyer. A buyer pays for what a seller offers; shopkeepers, hawkers and suppliers all sell.

Word Makeup

Choose the suffix that completes the word:

sell

a) er
b) ur
c) or
d) ar

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a) er. Sell takes er, as teller and speller do, to name the person who does it.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) purchace
b) buisness
c) bargian
d) seller

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d) seller. Business has u before i, purchase ends in ase, and bargain ends in ain.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In a sale, the seller is the one who ____.

a) pays the money
b) carries the goods home
c) receives the money
d) uses the goods

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c) receives the money

2. A bestseller is a book that ____.

a) has the best pictures
b) sells in very large numbers
c) wins the top prize
d) costs the most money

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b) sells in very large numbers

Associated Words

Words that end in -ler: trailer, retailer, wrestler, jeweller, ruler

Related words on the Spell Bee lists: vendor, merchant

More words from this list

wharf, ballot, colourful, dearth, entangled, hectare, livestock, plantation

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