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Spell Bee Word: Tickle


What does tickle mean?

Word: Tickle

Part of Speech: Verb

Meaning: Tickle means to touch someone lightly with your fingers, often on the feet or sides, to make them laugh. Something that tickles gives a light, scratchy feeling on your skin.

How do you spell tickle?

Syllables: tick - le

Tricky part: The k sound in the middle is spelt ck, as in tick, and the word ends in le, not el or al.

Watch out for: tickal, tickul, tikel

Memory tip: Light, quick touches, like the tick of a clock: start with tick, then finish the word.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. tickled pink: Very pleased. Example: "Ananya was tickled pink when her painting won a prize."

Tickle in a sentence

Example 1: Papa likes to tickle my feet to wake me up.

Example 2: The feather began to tickle my nose and I sneezed.

Example 3: Do not tickle your brother while he is drinking water.

Fun Fact

You cannot really tickle yourself, because your brain knows in advance exactly where your own fingers will touch.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) tickle
b) laghter
c) gigle
d) feathar

Show answer

a) tickle. Giggle doubles its g, laughter has augh and feather ends in er; tickle is spelt right.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

klecti

a) tickled
b) trickle
c) tackle
d) tickle

Show answer

d) tickle. Tackle needs an a and trickle an r, and tickled has one letter too many; these six letters give tickle.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

My little cousin squeeled when I tried to tickle her under the arms.

a) squeeled
b) tickle
c) under
d) cousin

Show answer

a) squeeled. Squeal is spelt with ea, as in meal.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these would most likely tickle?

a) a cold drink
b) a stone in your shoe
c) a feather brushing your foot
d) a bump on your head

Show answer

c) a feather brushing your foot

2. A woollen sweater can tickle your neck. How does it feel?

a) quite heavy
b) soaking wet
c) very hot
d) slightly itchy

Show answer

d) slightly itchy

Associated Words

Words that end in -kle: sprinkle, sparkle, knuckle

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access, bridegroom, degree, evaluation, historic, meadow, satellite, though

Next steps

How to participate in CREST International Spell Bee

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