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Spell Bee Word: Young


What does young mean?

Word: Young

Part of Speech: Adjective

Meaning: Young means having lived for only a short time. A young person, animal or plant is still growing.

How do you spell young?

Syllables: young

Tricky part: Young is said to rhyme with sung, but the vowel sound is written with two letters, o and u. Children often drop one of them.

Watch out for: yung, yeung

Memory tip: Young starts with the word you, so its o and u come in the same order as in you.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. young at heart: Still lively and full of fun, even late in life. Example: "Nanaji is eighty but young at heart."

Young in a sentence

Example 1: The young puppy chased its own tail.

Example 2: My grandfather played kabaddi when he was young.

Example 3: Young plants need water every day.

Fun Fact

Many young animals have their own names. A young cow is a calf and a young goat is a kid.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Connection

Choose the antonym of the word:

young

a) old
b) small
c) new
d) little

Show answer

a) old. Young means not old, so old is its opposite.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) happy
b) little
c) clever
d) younge

Show answer

d) younge. Nothing comes after the last sound of young, so there is no e.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

youn_

a) k
b) d
c) t
d) g

Show answer

d) g. Young ends with the ng sound you hear in sing.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the youngest?

a) a schoolgirl
b) a grandfather
c) a teenager
d) a newborn baby

Show answer

d) a newborn baby

2. A puppy is a young ____.

a) cat
b) goat
c) sheep
d) dog

Show answer

d) dog

Associated Words

More Class 1 Summer Spell Bee words starting with y: yell, yak, yawn

More words from this list

belt, chin, dress, giant, leaf, pasta, sauce, table

Next steps

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