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Spell Bee Word: Softball


What does softball mean?

Word: Softball

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Softball means a team game like baseball, played with a bat and a larger ball that is thrown underarm.

How do you spell softball?

Syllables: soft - ball

Tricky part: The t at the end of soft is easy to swallow before the b, so sofball is the slip to watch.

Watch out for: sofball, softbal, sofftball

Memory tip: The ball used in softball is not really soft, but the name keeps all of soft: write s-o-f-t before ball.

Softball in a sentence

Example 1: Our school started a softball team this year.

Example 2: In softball, the pitcher throws the ball underarm.

Example 3: Tara caught the softball with her big leather glove.

Fun Fact

Softball began in Chicago in 1887, when a group of friends played an indoor game using a rolled-up boxing glove as the ball and a broom handle as the bat.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Makeup

Choose the correctly spelt compound word:

a) baskitball
b) softball
c) handbal
d) vollyball

Show answer

b) softball. Basketball has an e in basket, volleyball has ey and handball needs two l's; softball is correct.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Our softball team practised catching in the school field every evenning.

a) catching
b) team
c) softball
d) evenning

Show answer

d) evenning. Evening has one n in the middle; softball here is spelt correctly.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

lfotbsal

a) fastball
b) football
c) softball
d) ballots

Show answer

c) softball. The jumble has one o and one a, so football and fastball are out, and ballots leaves the f unused.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A game of softball does NOT need ____.

a) a glove
b) a bat
c) a shuttlecock
d) a ball

Show answer

c) a shuttlecock

2. In softball, a player scores a run by ____.

a) running round all the bases
b) hitting the ball into a net
c) kicking the ball past a keeper
d) throwing the ball through a hoop

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a) running round all the bases

Associated Words

Words that end in -ball: eyeball, netball, meatball

More words from this list

uncommon, altogether, clatter, disbelief, forbid, instruction, motorway, public

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