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Spell Bee Word: Turkey


What does turkey mean?

Word: Turkey

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Turkey means a large bird kept on farms. It has a fan-shaped tail and a red flap of skin hanging from its neck.

How do you spell turkey?

Syllables: tur - key

Tricky part: Its last two letters are ey. A plain y or a double e at the end are both slips.

Watch out for: turky, turkee

Memory tip: Turkey ends with key, the thing that opens a lock. Picture a turkey holding a key in its beak.

Turkey in a sentence

Example 1: A big turkey walked across the farm.

Example 2: The turkey puffed up its feathers.

Example 3: We saw a turkey and some hens at the village fair.

Fun Fact

A male turkey is called a tom, and a female turkey is called a hen.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) tirkey
b) turkey
c) terkey
d) torkey

Show answer

b) turkey. The first part is tur, with u, as in turn.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

ykurte

a) turkey
b) trukey
c) tukrey
d) rutkey

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a) turkey. The farm bird with a fan-shaped tail hides in these letters.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

turrkey

a) r
b) k
c) u
d) y

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a) r. Turkey has a single r, so take one of the two out.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sound does a turkey make?

a) gobble
b) hoot
c) quack
d) coo

Show answer

a) gobble

2. Turkey is also the name of a ____.

a) country
b) river
c) mountain
d) planet

Show answer

a) country

Associated Words

More Class 1 Summer Spell Bee words starting with t: tongue, target, teach, thigh, tiger, tomato

More words from this list

athlete, bunch, crown, finish, honest, muffin, quiet, slow

Next steps

How to participate in CREST International Spell Bee

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