Spell Bee Word: Wooden

What does wooden mean?

Word: Wooden

Part of Speech: Adjective

Meaning: Wooden means made from the hard material of tree trunks and branches.

How do you spell wooden?

Syllables: wood - en

Tricky part: Wooden has just one d. Children who know hidden and sudden often double it here too.

Watch out for: woodden, wooddon

Memory tip: One tree trunk, one d: that is how to remember the middle of wooden.

Wooden in a sentence

Example 1: Grandpa carved a small wooden elephant.

Example 2: The old wooden door creaks in the wind.

Example 3: Put the wooden blocks back in the box.

Fun Fact

Pinocchio, the wooden puppet in an Italian story by Carlo Collodi, has a nose that grows longer each time he tells a lie.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

wo_den

a) e
b) o
c) u
d) a

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b) o. This word keeps the double o of wood, the material itself.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

The carpenter made a strong woodan table for us.

a) carpenter
b) strong
c) table
d) woodan

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d) woodan. The last part is spelt en, as in garden and kitten.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) plastic
b) golden
c) wooden
d) rubbar

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d) rubbar. Rubber ends in er, like butter.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

oednow

a) wooden
b) wonode
c) woodne
d) wooedn

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a) wooden. Only this order can describe a chair or a spoon.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these is most often wooden?

a) a steel plate
b) a paper bag
c) a glass bottle
d) a cricket bat

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d) a cricket bat

2. You drop a wooden block in a pond. What will it most likely do?

a) melt away
b) break into pieces
c) float on top
d) turn to sand

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c) float on top

Associated Words

More Class 2 Summer Spell Bee words starting with wo: workbook, worry, worksheet, worst

More words from this list

blunt, count, field, heart, locker, peanut, seahorse, success

Next steps

How to participate in CREST International Spell Bee

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