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Spell Bee Word: Weed


What does weed mean?

Word: Weed

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Weed means a wild plant that grows where people do not want it, such as in a garden or a field of crops.

Sounds like: we'd (short for we had or we would)

How do you spell weed?

Syllables: weed

Tricky part: The long e sound in weed is written ee, not ea. Wead is the slip teachers see most.

Watch out for: wead, wied

Memory tip: Picture two e's growing side by side like two little plants in a garden bed.

Weed in a sentence

Example 1: The gardener pulled out every weed from the rose bed.

Example 2: A tall weed grew through a crack in the wall.

Example 3: The farmer cleared the weeds before sowing the rice.

Fun Fact

Some plants we call weeds can be eaten. Young dandelion leaves are used in salads in many countries.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) pumpkin
b) harvest
c) weede
d) blossom

Show answer

c) weede. Weed has only two e's, side by side, and nothing after the d.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

_eed

a) b
b) l
c) w
d) j

Show answer

c) w. Only a w at the front makes a real word here: the wild plant, weed.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

dewe

a) weed
b) dwee
c) deew
d) wdee

Show answer

a) weed. The word begins with w and ends with d; the two e's sit between them.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these would a farmer call a weed?

a) grass growing among the rice plants
b) rice plants growing in the paddy field
c) wheat sown neatly in the wheat field
d) mango trees planted in a straight row

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a) grass growing among the rice plants

2. Grandma said, 'Please weed the vegetable patch.' What should you do?

a) water all the vegetable plants
b) pick the ripe tomatoes
c) sow some new seeds in rows
d) pull out the unwanted plants

Show answer

d) pull out the unwanted plants

Associated Words

More Class 2 Summer Spell Bee words starting with w: waffle, wasp, worksheet, workbook, wealthy, wardrobe

More words from this list

baseball, classroom, enter, grey, lampshade, order, rocket, stapler

Next steps

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