KS2 Spelling Quiz: Master 'igh' Words

English Quiz - Spelling: -igh (Questions)

Let's have a KS2 English spelling quiz all about the letters 'igh'! Words like light, sight, and fright have 'gh', but it's silent. English words often use 'igh' for the 'long i' sound (like in 'sight'). It might seem a bit strange, and you've probably heard the 'gh' is silent. A long time ago, people said 'night' with the 'gh' sound, but it changed over the years, and the spelling stayed the same.

Learning to spell might seem boring, but it's super important! Good spellers have better chances in jobs. Keep practising and see if you remember these words with the '-igh' quiz.

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Choose the correct spellings.
She ____ to ____ her shoelaces.

[ ]	tried, tihten
[ ]	tried, tighten
[ ]	trighed, tihten
[ ]	trighed, tighten

Choose the correct spellings.
If you ____ a bird, it will ____ away.

[ ]	frighten, fly
[ ]	frighten, fligh
[ ]	friten, fly
[ ]	friten, fligh

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I ____ change ____ mind tomorrow.

[ ]	miet, migh
[ ]	miet, my
[ ]	might, migh
[ ]	might, my

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The ____ were looking for a castle where they could spend the ____.

[ ]	knights, nite
[ ]	knights, night
[ ]	knites, nite
[ ]	knites, night

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The child ____ deeply, then his lip wobbled and he began to ____.

[ ]	sied, cry
[ ]	sied, crigh
[ ]	sighed, cry
[ ]	sighed, crigh

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Although I hold my hockey stick in my left hand, I ____ with my ____ hand.

[ ]	write, right
[ ]	write, rite
[ ]	wright, right
[ ]	wright, rite

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The apple was so shiny and such a ____ red colour, that Snow White could not help taking a ____.

[ ]	brite, bight
[ ]	brite, bite
[ ]	bright, bight
[ ]	bright, bite

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The audience cheered with ____ as the juggler balanced on the ____.

[ ]	delite, tightrope
[ ]	delite, titerope
[ ]	delight, tightrope
[ ]	delight, titerope

Choose the correct spellings.
Mr. Howard could never understand ____ the ____ of one of the legs of his chair was different from that of the rest.

[ ]	wigh, hiete
[ ]	wigh, height
[ ]	why, hiete
[ ]	why, height

10.

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They were still ____ up the mountainside when they suddenly realised that it would soon be ____.

[ ]	high, twilite
[ ]	high, twilight
[ ]	hye, twilite
[ ]	hye, twilight

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English Quiz - Spelling: -igh (Answers)

Choose the correct spellings.
She ____ to ____ her shoelaces.

[ ]	tried, tihten
[x]	tried, tighten
[ ]	trighed, tihten
[ ]	trighed, tighten

She tried to tighten her shoelaces.

Choose the correct spellings.
If you ____ a bird, it will ____ away.

[x]	frighten, fly
[ ]	frighten, fligh
[ ]	friten, fly
[ ]	friten, fligh

If you frighten a bird, it will fly away.

Choose the correct spellings.
I ____ change ____ mind tomorrow.

[ ]	miet, migh
[ ]	miet, my
[ ]	might, migh
[x]	might, my

I might change my mind tomorrow.

Choose the correct spellings.
The ____ were looking for a castle where they could spend the ____.

[ ]	knights, nite
[x]	knights, night
[ ]	knites, nite
[ ]	knites, night

The knights were looking for a castle where they could spend the night.

Choose the correct spellings.
The child ____ deeply, then his lip wobbled and he began to ____.

[ ]	sied, cry
[ ]	sied, crigh
[x]	sighed, cry
[ ]	sighed, crigh

The child sighed deeply, then his lip wobbled and he began to cry.

Choose the correct spellings.
Although I hold my hockey stick in my left hand, I ____ with my ____ hand.

[x]	write, right
[ ]	write, rite
[ ]	wright, right
[ ]	wright, rite

Although I hold my hockey stick in my left hand, I write with my right hand. 'Write' and 'right' are homophones.

Choose the correct spellings.
The apple was so shiny and such a ____ red colour, that Snow White could not help taking a ____.

[ ]	brite, bight
[ ]	brite, bite
[ ]	bright, bight
[x]	bright, bite

The apple was so shiny and such a bright red colour, that Snow White could not help taking a bite.

Choose the correct spellings.
The audience cheered with ____ as the juggler balanced on the ____.

[ ]	delite, tightrope
[ ]	delite, titerope
[x]	delight, tightrope
[ ]	delight, titerope

The audience cheered with delight as the juggler balanced on the tightrope.

Choose the correct spellings.
Mr. Howard could never understand ____ the ____ of one of the legs of his chair was different from that of the rest.

[ ]	wigh, hiete
[ ]	wigh, height
[ ]	why, hiete
[x]	why, height

Mr. Howard could never understand why the height of one of the legs of his chair was different from that of the rest.

10.

Choose the correct spellings.
They were still ____ up the mountainside when they suddenly realised that it would soon be ____.

[ ]	high, twilite
[x]	high, twilight
[ ]	hye, twilite
[ ]	hye, twilight

They were still high up the mountainside when they suddenly realised that it would soon be twilight.