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Spell Bee Word: Understand


What does understand mean?

Word: Understand

Part of Speech: Verb

Meaning: Understand means to know what something means or how it works.

Synonyms: know

Antonyms: misunderstand

How do you spell understand?

Syllables: un - der - stand

Tricky part: Children who say it fast drop the r in the middle and write undestand. Saying all three beats slowly keeps it in.

Watch out for: undestand, undrestand, understan

Memory tip: Growl the r sound in the middle of the word as you spell it, so it never goes missing.

Understand in a sentence

Example 1: I did not understand the question, so I asked Ma'am.

Example 2: Do you understand how a kite flies?

Example 3: My dog seems to understand when I say walk.

Fun Fact

Understand is a very old English word. People used it, as understandan, more than a thousand years ago.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) understand
b) undarstand
c) undirstand
d) undurstand

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a) understand. The middle beat has an e before its r.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

tsnadunerd

a) undertsand
b) understnad
c) udnerstand
d) understand

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d) understand. These ten letters spell the word for knowing what something means.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Can you understend what the parrot is saying?

a) parrot
b) understend
c) saying
d) Can

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b) understend. The last part is stand, with an a.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

un_erstand

a) d
b) g
c) b
d) t

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a) d. Understand begins with under, so a d follows un.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. If you understand a joke, you ____.

a) see why it is funny
b) forget it at once
c) say it too fast
d) do not hear it

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a) see why it is funny

2. Which question shows that Meena did not understand?

a) May I have some water?
b) Can I go out to play?
c) What does this word mean?
d) Is it lunchtime yet?

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c) What does this word mean?

Associated Words

Words that end in -and: hand, brand, band, and, garland, headband

Related words on the Spell Bee lists: know, misunderstand

More words from this list

avocado, camel, dance, flat, hyena, neck, recite, soldier

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