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Spell Bee Word: Treat


What does treat mean?

Word: Treat

Part of Speech: Verb

Meaning: Treat means to behave towards someone in a certain way, or to give medical care. As a noun, a treat is something special that gives you pleasure, like an ice cream.

Synonyms: handle, care for

How do you spell treat?

Syllables: treat

Tricky part: The long e sound has more than one spelling in English, and children often pick the wrong one here. Another slip is adding an e at the end, as in treate.

Watch out for: triet, treate, trete

Memory tip: A treat is often something to eat, and treat uses the same e-a pair as eat.

Treat in a sentence

Example 1: Always treat animals gently.

Example 2: The doctor treated the cut on my knee.

Example 3: After the exams, Mummy took us out for a treat of pani puri.

Fun Fact

Treat comes from the Old French traitier, which goes back to the Latin tractare, to handle or manage. To treat someone is really about how you handle them.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Makeup

Choose the suffix that completes the word:

treat

a) mant
b) ment
c) mint
d) meant

Show answer

b) ment. Add ment, the same ending as in payment and agreement.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) treat
b) biskit
c) pastrey
d) choclate

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a) treat. Chocolate has an o after the c, pastry ends in a plain y, and biscuit has a u and an i.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

treatt

a) a
b) t
c) r
d) e

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b) t. The t at the end of treat is never doubled, even in treated and treating.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The vet treated the puppy's sore paw. What did she do?

a) cleaned and bandaged it
b) took a photo of it
c) measured its size
d) painted its claws

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a) cleaned and bandaged it

2. At the restaurant Mummy said, 'This is my treat.' She meant that she would ____.

a) pay for the meal
b) eat the meal alone
c) cook the meal
d) choose the table

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a) pay for the meal

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