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Spell Bee Word: Slippery


What does slippery mean?

Word: Slippery

Part of Speech: Adjective

Meaning: Slippery means so smooth or wet that it is hard to hold or to stand on without sliding.

Synonyms: slick, slimy

Antonyms: rough

How do you spell slippery?

Syllables: slip - per - y

Tricky part: The p is doubled, and the word ends with a plain y, not ey or ie.

Watch out for: slipery, slippry, slipperi

Memory tip: Picture two feet sliding apart on a wet floor: they are the two p's standing side by side in slippery.

Slippery in a sentence

Example 1: The bathroom floor is slippery after a bath.

Example 2: Mossy rocks by the waterfall are very slippery.

Example 3: A fish is slippery and hard to hold.

Fun Fact

In 2014 Japanese scientists won an Ig Nobel Prize for measuring just how slippery a banana peel is underfoot.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) balanse
b) dangerus
c) carefull
d) slippery

Show answer

d) slippery. Dangerous needs ous, careful has one l and balance ends in ce, so slippery is the one spelt correctly.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

The marble steps of the temple are slippary after the rain.

a) rain
b) slippary
c) marble
d) temple

Show answer

b) slippary. The middle of slippery is er, not ar.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

pryesilp

a) slippery
b) sipplery
c) silppery
d) lsippery

Show answer

a) slippery. Sipplery, silppery and lsippery keep the two p's and the plain y but move the s, l or i.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

sl_ppery

a) e
b) a
c) o
d) i

Show answer

d) i. Slippery starts with slip, which has the short i of lip.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which surface is the most slippery?

a) a rubber mat
b) a woollen carpet
c) a gravel path
d) ice

Show answer

d) ice

2. What can make a kitchen floor slippery?

a) a dry mat
b) a layer of sand
c) spilt oil
d) rough tiles

Show answer

c) spilt oil

Associated Words

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supermarketapproachanswermumbletable tennis

Next steps

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