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Spell Bee Word: Wrist


What does wrist mean?

Word: Wrist

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Wrist means the part of your body that joins your hand to your arm. It lets your hand bend and turn.

How do you spell wrist?

Syllables: wrist

Tricky part: Nobody says the w in wrist, so it often gets left out. The word still starts with wr.

Watch out for: rist, rwist

Memory tip: Think of the wr in write and wrong. Wrist starts the same way, with a w you never hear.

Wrist in a sentence

Example 1: Didi tied a rakhi on my wrist.

Example 2: I hurt my wrist when I fell off my cycle.

Example 3: Bend your wrist slowly during yoga.

Fun Fact

Each wrist has eight small bones, called the carpal bones.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) wreist
b) wryst
c) wriste
d) wrist

Show answer

d) wrist. Wrist has a short i and nothing after the t.

Word Chain

Complete the word sequence:

shoulder, elbow, ____, hand

a) ankle
b) wrist
c) hip
d) knee

Show answer

b) wrist. Go down the arm: shoulder, elbow, wrist, and then the hand.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

wri_t

a) n
b) c
c) s
d) f

Show answer

c) s. Say wrist slowly and you can hear the s before the t.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do many people wear on the wrist?

a) a nose ring
b) an anklet
c) an earring
d) a bangle

Show answer

d) a bangle

2. Which of these needs you to turn your wrist?

a) kicking a football
b) opening a jar lid
c) nodding your head
d) climbing up the stairs

Show answer

b) opening a jar lid

Associated Words

Words that end in -ist: dentist, twist, mist, scientist, moist, dramatist

More words from this list

beard, cheek, donkey, furry, kite, painter, safety, suggest

Next steps

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