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Spell Bee Word: Watermelon


What does watermelon mean?

Word: Watermelon

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Watermelon means a big round fruit with a hard green skin. Inside it is red, sweet and juicy, with black seeds.

How do you spell watermelon?

Syllables: wa - ter - mel - on

Tricky part: There is only one l. Watermellon, with a double l, is the slip most people make.

Watch out for: watermalon, wartermelon

Memory tip: One big fruit, one l: there is just a single l in watermelon.

Watermelon in a sentence

Example 1: We ate cold watermelon on a hot day.

Example 2: The watermelon was so heavy that Papa carried it.

Example 3: Rahul spat out the black seeds of the watermelon.

Fun Fact

Watermelons grow on long vines that creep along the ground, not on trees.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) watermelon
b) watarmelon
c) wotermelon
d) watermelan

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a) watermelon. Watermelon has a in the first beat, e in the second and third, and o in the last.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

lenoterwam

a) watermelno
b) watremelon
c) watermelon
d) watermleon

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c) watermelon. The big green summer fruit hides in these ten letters.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

waterrmelon

a) r
b) m
c) n
d) w

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a) r. Water has one r, so the second r is extra.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

water_elon

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

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d) m. After water comes melon, which starts with m.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Name another fruit that grows on a vine along the ground.

a) an apple
b) a pumpkin
c) a mango
d) a coconut

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b) a pumpkin

2. In which season do watermelons fill the markets in India?

a) monsoon
b) autumn
c) summer
d) winter

Show answer

c) summer

Associated Words

actorwelcomehookvacationrose
frogbluelemoncottonwarm

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