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Spell Bee Word: Wing


What does wing mean?

Word: Wing

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Wing means one of the two parts of a bird's or insect's body that it uses for flying. An aeroplane has wings too.

How do you spell wing?

Syllables: wing

Tricky part: The end is ng, one sound made by two letters. Some children write win or wink, which are other words.

Watch out for: wign, winng

Memory tip: When a word ends with a hum through the nose, as this one does, that sound is usually spelt ng.

Wing in a sentence

Example 1: The eagle spread its wings and rose above the trees.

Example 2: A ladybird has two hard red covers over its wings.

Example 3: Our seats were right next to the wing of the plane.

Fun Fact

Some hummingbirds beat their wings more than 50 times a second.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

w_ng

a) y
b) e
c) u
d) i

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d) i. The vowel is the short one heard in sit.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

The parrot stretched one green whing in the sun.

a) stretched
b) green
c) whing
d) parrot

Show answer

c) whing. This word starts with a plain w, with no h after it.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) feather
b) claw
c) beek
d) wing

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c) beek. Beak is spelt with ea, as in leaf.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these has wings?

a) a butterfly
b) a fish
c) a worm
d) a snail

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a) a butterfly

2. What do the wings of an aeroplane help it to do?

a) float on water
b) carry the bags
c) dig into the ground
d) stay up in the air

Show answer

d) stay up in the air

Associated Words

More Class 2 Summer Spell Bee words starting with w: without, wizard, wonder, wristwatch, wealthy, waffle

More words from this list

below, comma, eyebrow, happy, leopard, parade, scared, stool

Next steps

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