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Spell Bee Word: Submarine


What does submarine mean?

Word: Submarine

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Submarine means a ship that can dive below the waves, travel there and then rise to the top again.

How do you spell submarine?

Syllables: sub - ma - rine

Tricky part: The end says reen, but it is spelt ine. Children who write what they hear put ee where the i should be.

Watch out for: submareen, submarin, submarien

Memory tip: Machine and submarine end the same way: both say een at the end but write it i-n-e.

Submarine in a sentence

Example 1: The submarine dived under the waves and disappeared.

Example 2: Adam made a toy submarine from a plastic bottle.

Example 3: A submarine can stay below the waves for many days.

Fun Fact

One of the earliest submarines was built by Cornelis Drebbel in the 1620s. It was a wooden rowing boat covered in greased leather and was tested in the River Thames in London.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) submerine
b) submirine
c) submarine
d) submorine

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c) submarine. After the m comes an a; the other three put a different vowel there.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

rinmeusab

a) submraine
b) subamrine
c) submarine
d) sumbarine

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c) submarine. Fix the ine ending first, as the tip says, then sort the six letters in front.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

s_bmarine

a) u
b) a
c) i
d) o

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a) u. The first beat sounds like the start of subway, written with a u.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

submarrine

a) m
b) b
c) r
d) s

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c) r. Take out one of the two r's and the ship's name is right again.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who would you find working on board a submarine?

a) a train driver
b) a sailor
c) a pilot
d) a farmer

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b) a sailor

2. Which animal can dive deep under the sea, as a submarine does?

a) a frog
b) a swan
c) a duck
d) a whale

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d) a whale

Associated Words

Words that end in -ine: medicine, jasmine, sunshine, combine, define, magazine

More words from this list

birthday, confetti, eyelash, happy, leopard, parade, scarf, straighten

Next steps

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