What does suntan mean?
Word: Suntan
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Suntan means a light brown colour that skin gets after spending time in the sun.
How do you spell suntan?
Syllables: sun - tan
Tricky part: Both halves are short, with just one n each. Children write sunten or suntann.
Watch out for: sunten, suntann, sontan
Memory tip: Six letters, two short halves of three, and only two vowels: u in the first half and a in the second.
Suntan in a sentence
Example 1: After a week at the beach, Kenji came home with a suntan.
Example 2: Grandpa's suntan comes from working in his vegetable garden every morning.
Example 3: The cricketers had a deep suntan by the end of the tour.
Fun Fact
Skin darkens in the sun because sunlight makes it produce more melanin, a dark colouring that helps shield the skin.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Fusion
Add the correct option to the word before the blank to make a new word:
The farmer's arms were brown with sun___ from working in the fields.
a) flower
b) rise
c) tan
d) set
Show answer
c) tan. Brown skin from the sun is a suntan.
Word Champ
Which of the words cannot be made using the letters in the given word?
suntan
a) nuts
b) aunts
c) stun
d) tents
Show answer
d) tents. Tents needs an e, and suntan has none.
Spell Spies
Choose the option with no spelling errors:
a) suntan, beatch, shels, sandcastle
b) suntan, beach, shellz, sandcassle
c) suntan, beach, shells, sandcastle
d) suntan, bech, shells, sandcastel
Show answer
c) suntan, beach, shells, sandcastle. Beach has no t, shells has a double l, and sandcastle has a silent t.
Jumble Tumble
What is the meaning of the word that can be formed from the given letters?
tunans
a) a small tent put up on the beach
b) a cloud that hides the sun
c) a cool drink made from fresh fruit
d) skin turned light brown by sunshine
Show answer
d) skin turned light brown by sunshine. Tunans rearranges to suntan, the colour sunshine gives your skin.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which of these gives you a suntan?
a) a nap in a dark room
b) a bowl of hot soup
c) a swim late at night
d) hours in bright sunshine
Show answer
d) hours in bright sunshine
2. After a suntan, the skin under a watch strap usually looks:
a) blue and cold
b) paler than the rest
c) darker than the rest
d) red and spotty
Show answer
b) paler than the rest
