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Spell Bee Word: Snooker


What does snooker mean?

Word: Snooker

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Snooker means a game played on a large table covered in green cloth, where players use a long stick called a cue to hit coloured balls into pockets.

How do you spell snooker?

Syllables: snoo - ker

Tricky part: The long oo sound is spelt oo, and the ending is -er, not -ar. Snuker and snookar are typical errors.

Watch out for: snuker, snookar, snucker

Memory tip: Snooker shares its oo with pool, another game played with a cue and balls.

Snooker in a sentence

Example 1: Ronnie O'Sullivan has won the World Snooker Championship seven times.

Example 2: The club has two snooker tables on the first floor.

Example 3: Uncle taught me how to hold the cue for a game of snooker.

Fun Fact

Snooker is usually said to have begun in India in the 1870s, when British officers there made up a new version of billiards.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) tournamant
b) gymnastiks
c) snooker
d) badmenton

Show answer

c) snooker. Badminton has an i in its middle, gymnastics ends in -cs and tournament in -ment.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

My uncle plays snoocker with his friends at the club every Sunday.

a) friends
b) uncle
c) Sunday
d) snoocker

Show answer

d) snoocker. The k sound in snooker is a plain k, with no c in front of it.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

rkoesno

a) snooker
b) broken
c) stroke
d) snorkel

Show answer

a) snooker. This jumble has no l, t or b, which rules out snorkel, stroke and broken.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which ball is worth the most points in snooker?

a) the black
b) the red
c) the blue
d) the pink

Show answer

a) the black

2. A standard frame of snooker starts with how many red balls on the table?

a) 10
b) 15
c) 6
d) 22

Show answer

b) 15

Associated Words

Words that end in -ker: watchmaker, caretaker, locker, sticker, marker, woodpecker

More words from this list

uncertain, alphabet, circular, disappointed, focus, instant, molecule, prompt

Next steps

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