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Spell Bee Word: Umbrella


What does umbrella mean?

Word: Umbrella

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Umbrella means a folding cover on a stick that you hold over your head to keep off rain or sun.

How do you spell umbrella?

Syllables: um - brel - la

Tricky part: A double l sits in the middle. Writing just one l is the usual slip.

Watch out for: umbrela, umbella

Memory tip: The l that ends the middle beat and the l that starts the last beat meet, so two l's sit side by side.

Umbrella in a sentence

Example 1: Take your umbrella because it is raining.

Example 2: My umbrella has yellow ducks on it.

Example 3: The wind turned Raju's umbrella inside out.

Fun Fact

Umbrella comes from the Latin word umbra, which means shade.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) umbrelle
b) umbrellar
c) umbrella
d) umbralla

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c) umbrella. Umbrella ends in a plain a, and its middle vowel is e.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

lebralum

a) mubrella
b) ubmrella
c) umrbella
d) umbrella

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d) umbrella. The rainy-day cover hides in these eight letters.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

umberella

a) e
b) b
c) u
d) a

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a) e. No vowel sits between the b and the r.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

u_brella

a) p
b) n
c) b
d) m

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d) m. Umbrella starts with um: close your lips for the m before the b.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On a rainy day, what else could keep you dry?

a) a sun hat
b) a raincoat
c) a scarf
d) a sweater

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b) a raincoat

2. Which of these looks most like an open umbrella?

a) a bottle
b) a ball
c) a mushroom
d) a box

Show answer

c) a mushroom

Associated Words

More Class 1 Summer Spell Bee words starting with u: uncle, unicycle, understand

More words from this list

attend, cabin, daddy, flag, huge, natural, rainbow, snow

Next steps

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