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Spell Bee Word: Sweetheart


Basic Details

Word: Sweetheart

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: A person you love, or a loving way to speak to someone dear, such as a child or a husband or wife.

Synonyms: darling, dear, love

How to Spell Sweetheart

Syllables: sweet - heart

Tricky part: Both halves are full words: sweet with ee and heart with ea. Students write sweethart or sweatheart.

Watch out for: sweethart, sweatheart, swetheart

Memory tip: Your sweetheart is sweet (ee, like a sweet) and close to your heart (with ear inside it): sweet + heart.

Usage Examples

Example 1: Grandpa still calls Grandma his sweetheart after fifty years.

Example 2: Come here, sweetheart, and let me tie your shoelaces.

Example 3: They were school sweethearts who later married.

Fun Fact

A sweetheart deal is an agreement that is unusually good for one side, often made quietly between friends.

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Word Makeup

Choose the correctly spelt compound word:

a) candyflos
b) honeymun
c) sweetmeet
d) sweetheart

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d) sweetheart. Sweetmeat ends in meat, honeymoon in moon and candyfloss in a double s.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

On Valentine's Day the corner bakery sold heart-shaped cakes with sweethart iced across the top in pink letters.

a) bakery
b) letters
c) sweethart
d) iced

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c) sweethart. The second half must be the whole word heart, with an e before the a.

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word sweetheart as it is used in the sentence:

The young soldier carried a small photo of his sweetheart in his shirt pocket.

a) darling
b) rival
c) stranger
d) neighbour

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a) darling. A sweetheart is the person you love, and darling means the same.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A sweetheart deal is one that is ____.

a) always illegal
b) very good for one side
c) fair to all sides
d) about sweets

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b) very good for one side

2. Which two words make up sweetheart?

a) swee and theart
b) sweet and heart
c) sweat and heart
d) sweet and hart

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b) sweet and heart

Associated Words

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