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Spell Bee Word: Supermarket


What does supermarket mean?

Word: Supermarket

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Supermarket means a large shop where you pick food and household goods from the shelves yourself and pay at the counter.

Synonyms: superstore

How do you spell supermarket?

Syllables: su - per - mar - ket

Tricky part: Super has one p, unlike supper. Market ends in -et, so markit is wrong.

Watch out for: suppermarket, supermarkit, supermarkett

Memory tip: Only one p, because supper is a meal, not a shop.

Supermarket in a sentence

Example 1: We buy rice, oil and soap from the supermarket every month.

Example 2: The supermarket near our estate opens at nine.

Example 3: Riya pushed the trolley round the supermarket while her mother read the list.

Fun Fact

The idea behind the supermarket goes back to Piggly Wiggly, opened in Memphis, USA, in 1916, which is often named as the first self-service grocery shop.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Makeup

Choose the correctly spelt compound word:

a) soupermarket
b) supermerket
c) supermarket
d) supamarket

Show answer

c) supermarket. Super is spelt with u and er, and market keeps its a.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

rmpeaseutkr

a) supermarket
b) supermakret
c) supremarket
d) spuermarket

Show answer

a) supermarket. Supremarket, supermakret and spuermarket have one p and end in et, but two letters have swapped.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

superrmarket

a) p
b) e
c) r
d) m

Show answer

c) r. Super and market meet with r next to m; there is no room for a second r.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) trolley
b) customer
c) supermarcket
d) cashier

Show answer

c) supermarcket. Market has no c before its k.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A supermarket sells many things. Which one would it NOT usually sell?

a) tea bags
b) washing powder
c) a new car
d) frozen peas

Show answer

c) a new car

2. At the end of a supermarket visit, you pay at the ____.

a) checkout
b) ticket window
c) platform
d) reception

Show answer

a) checkout

Associated Words

More Class 3 Summer Spell Bee words starting with su: surprise, sunbeam, surely, suitcase, suite

More words from this list

advice, bother, confuse, earthquake, grace, knife, numb, remove

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