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Spell Bee Word: Wipe


What does wipe mean?

Word: Wipe

Part of Speech: Verb

Meaning: Wipe means to move a cloth, a tissue or your hand over something, for example to dry it or take off a mark.

Synonyms: clean

How do you spell wipe?

Syllables: wipe

Tricky part: Wipe has one p and a silent e at the end. Without the e it would not say wipe.

Watch out for: wipp, wippe

Memory tip: One wipe of the cloth, one p: wipe never needs a second p.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. wipe the slate clean: To forget past mistakes and start again. Example: "After the quarrel, the two friends wiped the slate clean."

Wipe in a sentence

Example 1: Please wipe the table after you eat.

Example 2: Didi wiped the spilt milk off the floor.

Example 3: I wipe my glasses with a soft cloth.

Fun Fact

One of the first windscreen wipers was invented by an American woman, Mary Anderson. She got a patent for it in 1903.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) paper
b) table
c) sponge
d) whipe

Show answer

d) whipe. Wipe starts with a plain w, with no h after it.

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word:

wipe

a) stain
b) drop
c) spill
d) rub

Show answer

d) rub. When you wipe a window, you rub it with a cloth.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

w_pe

a) o
b) u
c) i
d) a

Show answer

c) i. The vowel in wipe is an i, as in bike.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

pewi

a) wpie
b) wipe
c) iwpe
d) pwie

Show answer

b) wipe. Put the w first and save the quiet e for last.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does your teacher use to wipe the board?

a) a sharpener
b) a stapler
c) a duster
d) a ruler

Show answer

c) a duster

2. Why do we wipe our shoes on the doormat?

a) to get the mud off
b) to loosen the laces
c) to make them shiny
d) to keep the mat dry

Show answer

a) to get the mud off

Associated Words

Related words on the Spell Bee lists: clean

More words from this list

battery, chart, doe, frozen, kind, owl, root, study

Next steps

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