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Spell Bee Word: Tongue


What does tongue mean?

Word: Tongue

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Tongue means the soft, pink part inside your mouth. It helps you taste food, talk and swallow.

How do you spell tongue?

Syllables: tongue

Tricky part: We say tung, but the word ends in a silent ue, so those two letters are easy to leave out.

Watch out for: tongu, tonge

Memory tip: When you spell it, whisper the end as g-oo-ee, sounding the silent u and e, so you remember to write them.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. hold your tongue: Stop talking or keep quiet. Example: "Hold your tongue while the teacher is speaking."
  2. on the tip of my tongue: Almost remembered but not quite. Example: "Her name is on the tip of my tongue."

Tongue in a sentence

Example 1: The cat licked the milk with its tongue.

Example 2: Do not touch the hot tea with your tongue.

Example 3: The doctor asked me to stick out my tongue.

Fun Fact

Tongue can also mean a language. Your mother tongue is the first language you learn at home, such as Hindi, Tamil or Bengali.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) shoulder
b) stomach
c) tungue
d) finger

Show answer

c) tungue. The first vowel in tongue is o, even though it sounds like the u in sun.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

gonetu

a) tognue
b) ontgue
c) tongue
d) tgonue

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c) tongue. These six letters spell the part of your mouth that tastes food.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

The giraffe has a long blue tounge.

a) giraffe
b) tounge
c) blue
d) long

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b) tounge. In tongue, the n comes before the g, and the u only comes after it.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which taste would your tongue find in a lemon?

a) bitter
b) sweet
c) salty
d) sour

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d) sour

2. Why is 'red lorry, yellow lorry' called a tongue twister?

a) It is a long poem.
b) It is hard to say fast.
c) It is a song about lorries.
d) It is a riddle to solve.

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b) It is hard to say fast.

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More words from this list

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Next steps

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