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Spell Bee Word: Thankful


What does thankful mean?

Word: Thankful

Part of Speech: Adjective

Meaning: Thankful means pleased and glad that something good has happened, or that something bad has not.

How do you spell thankful?

Syllables: thank - ful

Tricky part: The middle sounds like 'ngk'. Children sometimes write ng or nc there, but it is spelt nk.

Watch out for: thangful, thancful

Memory tip: Say the word slowly and feel the click at the back of your throat after the n: that click is the k.

Thankful in a sentence

Example 1: We were thankful for the shade of the big banyan tree.

Example 2: I am thankful that my best friend sits next to me.

Example 3: Ayaan felt thankful when a classmate lent him a pencil.

Fun Fact

Thank and think come from the same Old English root, because thanking someone first meant thinking kindly of them.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Makeup

Choose the suffix that completes the word:

thank

a) full
b) ful
c) fool
d) fel

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b) ful. When this ending joins a word it keeps only one l, as in useful.

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word: thankful

a) grateful
b) playful
c) boastful
d) careless

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a) grateful. Grateful also means glad and ready to say thanks.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

fluknath

a) thankful
b) htankful
c) tahnkful
d) tankhful

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a) thankful. The th you hear at the start comes before the a.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) thankful
b) kindniss
c) pleasent
d) gratetude

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a) thankful. Pleasant ends in ant, gratitude has i after the t, and kindness keeps ness.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Riya is thankful for the rain after a long, dry summer. How does she feel about the rain?

a) cross about it
b) happy to see it
c) bored by it
d) sorry to see it

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b) happy to see it

2. What is a good way to show you are thankful for a gift?

a) hiding the gift in a drawer
b) forgetting who gave it
c) writing a kind note to the giver
d) asking for a bigger one

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c) writing a kind note to the giver

Associated Words

Words that end in -ful: peaceful, harmful, faithful, tearful, careful, wistful

More words from this list

alley, burrow, convince, equality, habitat, laptop, outer, rubbish

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