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Spell Bee Word: Wife


What does wife mean?

Word: Wife

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Wife means the woman a man is married to.

How do you spell wife?

Syllables: wife

Tricky part: Children often leave off the e at the end. That e is silent, but without it the word would not say wife.

Watch out for: wif, whife

Memory tip: Picture the silent e at the end of wife as a quiet ring on a finger: you cannot hear it, but it is always there.

Wife in a sentence

Example 1: My uncle's wife is my aunt.

Example 2: The farmer and his wife grow rice in their fields.

Example 3: Papa brought flowers for his wife on her birthday.

Fun Fact

Long ago, in Old English, the word wif simply meant a woman. The word woman itself grew out of wif and man.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Connection

Select the masculine form of the word:

wife

a) brother
b) husband
c) uncle
d) nephew

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b) husband. A husband is the man a woman is married to.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) flower
b) garden
c) sister
d) wyfe

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d) wyfe. Wife has an i in the middle, and wyfe has put a y in its place.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

wiffe

a) e
b) f
c) w
d) i

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b) f. Wife has one f, just as life and knife do.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

The farmer's wife sold ripe tomatos at the market.

a) farmer's
b) wife
c) tomatos
d) market

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c) tomatos. Tomato adds es, not just s, to make tomatoes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Your grandfather's wife is your ____.

a) grandmother
b) aunt
c) sister
d) cousin

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a) grandmother

2. Where does a woman usually become a wife?

a) at her birthday party
b) at a school prize day
c) at a cricket match
d) at her wedding

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d) at her wedding

Associated Words

More Class 1 Summer Spell Bee words starting with w: watermelon, wrong, write, whisper, warm, wrist

More words from this list

bark, change, different, Friday, keep, origin, ripple, storm

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