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Spell Bee Word: Staple


What does staple mean?

Word: Staple

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Staple means a small piece of thin wire pushed through sheets of paper to hold them together. A staple food is one that people eat nearly every day.

How do you spell staple?

Syllables: sta - ple

Tricky part: There is one p only. The long first vowel means no double letter is needed, so stapple is wrong.

Watch out for: stapple, stapl

Memory tip: One push, one little wire, one p.

Staple in a sentence

Example 1: Sir asked us to put one staple in the top left corner of our answer sheets.

Example 2: A staple flew off the desk and landed in my lunch box.

Example 3: Millet is a staple food in many villages of Rajasthan.

Fun Fact

In Old English, the word meant a post or a pillar, far bigger than the tiny wire in a stack of papers.

Practise the CREST Way

Spellacadabra

Choose the correct option to make a meaningful word:

st__ple

a) a
b) ay
c) ei
d) ai

Show answer

a) a. The long a sound here is shown by one letter alone.

Sound Check

Which of the following words rhymes with the given word?

staple

a) maple
b) couple
c) ripple
d) people

Show answer

a) maple. Maple has the same long a sound and the same ending sound.

Word Champ

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

staple

a) apple
b) paste
c) plate
d) petal

Show answer

a) apple. You run out of ps halfway through apple.

Spell Spies

Choose the misspelt word/s in the given sentence:

Neha used a stapel to keep the pages of her science project together.

a) only project
b) project and pages
c) stapel and science
d) only stapel

Show answer

d) only stapel. The word ends in le, so stapel is the only mistake.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these is a staple food for many people in Kerala?

a) rice
b) olives
c) cheese
d) oats

Show answer

a) rice

2. A staple falls out of your stack of pages. What happens next?

a) the pages get wet
b) the pages grow thinner
c) the pages turn yellow
d) the pages come apart

Show answer

d) the pages come apart

Associated Words

Words that start with sta: stair, starter, stay, starry, standard, stationery

More words from this list

tongs, wring, buttercup, crest, drool, gurgle, lotion, pleat

Next steps

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