Spell Bee Word: Teeth

What does teeth mean?

Word: Teeth

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Teeth means the hard, white parts in your mouth that you use to bite and chew. One of them is a tooth.

How do you spell teeth?

Syllables: teeth

Tricky part: Teeth is the word for more than one tooth. Never add an s: tooths is wrong.

Watch out for: tooths, toothes

Memory tip: One mouse, two mice; one tooth, two teeth. Some words change inside instead of adding s.

Teeth in a sentence

Example 1: Brush your teeth before bed.

Example 2: Aarav lost two milk teeth this year.

Example 3: A crocodile has many sharp teeth.

Fun Fact

Children have 20 milk teeth, and most adults have 32 teeth.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) teith
b) teath
c) teeth
d) tieth

Show answer

c) teeth. Teeth has a double e in the middle.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

The baby has two tiny teet now.

a) baby
b) two
c) teet
d) tiny

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c) teet. Teeth ends with th, not just t.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

theet

a) tethe
b) teeth
c) teteh
d) tehet

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b) teeth. Only one choice is the word for more than one tooth.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who do you visit to get your teeth checked?

a) a chemist
b) a dentist
c) a tailor
d) a vet

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b) a dentist

2. Which animal has two very long teeth called tusks?

a) an elephant
b) a horse
c) a camel
d) a giraffe

Show answer

a) an elephant

Associated Words

More words from this list

account, black, cliff, eighteen, golden, liquid, pilot, seagull

Next steps

How to participate in CREST International Spell Bee

The CREST International Spell Bee (CSB) is conducted in two editions – CREST International Spell Bee - Summer (CSB) and CREST International Spell Bee - Winter (CSBW) – giving students across the globe an opportunity to showcase and enhance their spelling proficiency. Designed for young learners from Senior KG to Class 8, the competition focuses on word-building, pronunciation, and vocabulary enrichment, helping students develop strong linguistic skills.

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