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Spell Bee Word: Telephone


What does telephone mean?

Word: Telephone

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Telephone means a machine that lets you talk to someone in another place by sending sound along wires or by radio signals.

Synonyms: phone

How do you spell telephone?

Syllables: tel - e - phone

Tricky part: The f sound is spelt ph, as in photo. Many children write telefone.

Watch out for: telefone, telifone

Memory tip: Photo, graph and elephant all spell the f sound ph, and telephone does too.

Telephone in a sentence

Example 1: The telephone rang during dinner.

Example 2: Grandma still keeps an old telephone with a dial.

Example 3: Please write the school telephone number in your diary.

Fun Fact

Alexander Graham Bell was given a patent for the telephone in 1876.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) telephone
b) messege
c) televison
d) computor

Show answer

a) telephone. Computer ends in er, message has an a after the double s, and television keeps its i before the sion.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

hoeneltep

a) telescope
b) elephants
c) telegraph
d) telephone

Show answer

d) telephone. Three e's are in the jumble, and only one option has three e's with no s or g.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Meera answered the telephon in the hall and called me to speak to my uncle.

a) called
b) uncle
c) telephon
d) answered

Show answer

c) telephon. Telephone ends with a silent e, as phone does.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

tellephone

a) t
b) l
c) h
d) n

Show answer

b) l. Tel has one l, as at the start of television.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which part of an old telephone do you speak into?

a) the bell
b) the dial
c) the cord
d) the mouthpiece

Show answer

d) the mouthpiece

2. Old telephones had a round dial. What did people use the dial for?

a) choosing the number to call
b) setting the time of day
c) turning the sound up
d) switching on a light

Show answer

a) choosing the number to call

Associated Words

Words that end in -one: postpone, drone, semitone, cyclone, backbone, anyone

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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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