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Spell Bee Word: Webbed


What does webbed mean?

Word: Webbed

Part of Speech: Adjective

Meaning: Webbed means having toes or fingers joined by a thin layer of skin, as a duck's feet are.

How do you spell webbed?

Syllables: webbed

Tricky part: Web has a short e followed by one b, so the b doubles before ed, just as the p doubles in stepped.

Watch out for: webbd, webbid

Memory tip: A duck has two webbed feet, so webbed has two b's. The same doubling happens in robbed and grabbed.

Webbed in a sentence

Example 1: Ducks paddle quickly with their webbed feet.

Example 2: The otter's webbed paws help it swim after fish.

Example 3: Frogs that spend most of their time in water usually have strongly webbed toes.

Fun Fact

Webbed feet are not only for birds. Otters, beavers and the platypus all have them, and the platypus can fold its webbing back when it walks on land.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) platipus
b) webbed
c) cormorent
d) flammingo

Show answer

b) webbed. Flamingo has one m, cormorant ends in ant, and platypus has a y after the t.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

The swan pushed itself accross the pond with its strong webbed feet.

a) pond
b) webbed
c) accross
d) swan

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c) accross. Across has one c and a double s.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

bdebwe

a) ebbed
b) webbed
c) wedded
d) bedded

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b) webbed. Ebbed is one letter short, and bedded and wedded need three d's.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these birds does NOT have webbed feet?

a) sparrow
b) pelican
c) goose
d) swan

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a) sparrow

2. For a swimming animal, webbed feet work most like ____.

a) claws
b) suction cups
c) flippers
d) spikes

Show answer

c) flippers

Associated Words

More Class 6 Summer Spell Bee words starting with w: washboard, wholesale, wavelength, widespread, wrath, wrestle

More words from this list

apologetic, chronological, deposit, exploitation, hymn, monotonous, principal, subsequent

Next steps

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