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Spell Bee Word: Watch


What does watch mean?

Word: Watch

Part of Speech: Verb

Meaning: Watch means to look at something for some time, like a cricket match. A watch is also a small clock you wear on your wrist.

Synonyms: see, look at, view

How do you spell watch?

Syllables: watch

Tricky part: The ch at the end has a t in front of it: tch. Leaving out that t is the most common slip.

Watch out for: woch, wacht

Memory tip: A watch tells the time, and time begins with t. So never forget the t in watch.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. watch your step: Be careful. Example: "Watch your step on the wet floor."

Watch in a sentence

Example 1: Let us watch the cricket match on TV.

Example 2: Dad gave me a watch for my birthday.

Example 3: We sat on the beach to watch the sunset.

Fun Fact

Before wristwatches became common, many people carried pocket watches on a chain.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) wetch
b) wutch
c) watch
d) wotch

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c) watch. The vowel is a, even though it sounds like the o in hot.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

chwat

a) wtach
b) watch
c) awtch
d) twach

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b) watch. The tch team stays together at the end.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Can we whatch the kites from the roof?

a) kites
b) whatch
c) from
d) roof

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b) whatch. Watch has no h after the w.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A watch has two hands. The short hand shows the ____.

a) hour
b) minute
c) day
d) second

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a) hour

2. Grandpa likes to watch birds in the park. What does he most likely carry?

a) his reading lamp
b) his walking stick
c) his binoculars
d) his garden hose

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c) his binoculars

Associated Words

Words that end in -tch: wristwatch, stretch, scratch

Related words on the Spell Bee lists: see, view

More words from this list

bamboo, catch, dental, foolish, joke, November, rich, spoon

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