What does villa mean?
Word: Villa
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Villa means a large house with a garden, usually in the countryside or near the sea.
How do you spell villa?
Syllables: vil - la
Tricky part: The word ends in a plain a. The last sound is weak, so some children add an h or write er.
Watch out for: villah, viller
Memory tip: Picture a sofa on the porch of a villa: sofa and villa both finish with a single a.
Villa in a sentence
Example 1: The villa on the hill had a red roof and a mango tree in the garden.
Example 2: During the holidays, we stayed in a villa with a small swimming pool.
Example 3: Grandpa dreams of a quiet villa near the lakes of northern Italy.
Fun Fact
Villa comes from a Latin word for a country house or farm, and the word village grew from the same Latin root.
Practise the CREST Way
Spell Spies
Choose the misspelt word/s in the given sentence:
Our cousins own a white vila by the beach, and we visit them every winter.
a) winter
b) vila
c) cousins
d) beach
Show answer
b) vila. The holiday house needs two l's, one for each of its two parts.
Spellacadabra
Choose the correct option to make a meaningful word:
v__lla
a) y
b) e
c) ee
d) i
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d) i. The first vowel is a short i, the sound you hear in hill.
Jumble Tumble
Which option has letters that you can rearrange to form the name of a kind of home?
a) lavin
b) lavir
c) lavil
d) laviel
Show answer
c) lavil. Lavir makes rival and lavin makes anvil, which are not homes, and laviel has an extra e.
Word Champ
In which option are the given words arranged in alphabetical order?
1. village 2. vine 3. villa
a) 213
b) 132
c) 231
d) 312
Show answer
d) 312. Villa is the start of village, so the shorter word comes first; vine comes last because n comes after l.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. A family rents a villa for a week by the sea. What do they get for that week?
a) a stall in a market
b) a seat on a ferry
c) a whole house to themselves
d) a single bed in a dormitory
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c) a whole house to themselves
2. The Mehtas' villa has six bedrooms and a lawn. Which word describes it best?
a) spacious
b) crowded
c) narrow
d) tiny
Show answer
a) spacious
