What does suite mean?
Word: Suite
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Suite means a set of rooms that go together, such as a bedroom and sitting room in a hotel. It can also mean a set of matching furniture.
Sounds like: sweet (tasting of sugar)
How do you spell suite?
Syllables: suite
Tricky part: It sounds exactly like sweet, but it has no w and no double e. Children who go by the sound write swete or sweete.
Watch out for: swete, sweete, suitte
Memory tip: Sweet is a taste; a suite is a set of rooms. They sound the same, so think of the hotel before you write it.
Suite in a sentence
Example 1: The cricket team stayed in a large hotel suite.
Example 2: The suite had two bedrooms and a balcony facing the sea.
Example 3: Our neighbours bought a new sofa suite for Diwali.
Fun Fact
Suite comes from French, where it means a set of things that follow one another. In music, a suite is a set of short pieces played one after another.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
Grandpa booked a siute on the top floor for the wedding guests.
a) floor
b) guests
c) siute
d) Grandpa
Show answer
c) siute. The u comes before the i.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) suite
b) ballcony
c) hotle
d) lobbie
Show answer
a) suite. Hotel should end in el, balcony has one l and lobby ends in y.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
teusi
a) tsuie
b) suiet
c) suite
d) esuit
Show answer
c) suite. Suiet, tsuie and esuit keep the u and i together but put the s, t and e in the wrong places.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Rohan's family stayed in a suite at the hotel. What did they have?
a) a bed in a shared dormitory
b) a table in the dining hall
c) one small single room
d) a few rooms joined together
Show answer
d) a few rooms joined together
2. Which sentence uses suite correctly?
a) Our hotel suite had a view of the hills.
b) Papa wore a grey suite to the wedding.
c) The tailor sewed a new suite for Dadu.
d) Pink does not suite my little sister.
Show answer
a) Our hotel suite had a view of the hills.
