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Words beginning with we...
Marriage ceremony; a ritual officially celebrating the beginning of a marriage is a wedding.

Words beginning with we...

Many people use the wrong spelling for weather and whether. Test yourself on KS3 words beginning at we.

"A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely." - Pam Brown.

Some words in the English language are strange and mysterious. Take the word "mulch", for instance. The quotation above presents a metaphor for friendship by imagining it to be a plant. Friendship, in Brown's imagery, is a hardy plant, requiring not much more than a thin soil to thrive.

1 .
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Riches; valuable material possessions
weallth
wellth
waelth
wealth
The rhyming words "wealth" and "health" are spelled similarly
2 .
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Marriage ceremony; a ritual officially celebrating the beginning of a marriage
wedding
weading
wearding
wueding
"Wed" has a single d, "wedding" has two
3 .
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The plural of an adult female human
woemen
wimmen
wommen
women
Neither the o nor the e are pronounced as you might expect
4 .
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To which place or situation. 'The snowbirds travel w------ it is warm'
wear
where
whear
ware
Be careful not to confuse "where" with "wear", "ware" and "were"
5 .
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A type of marine mammal
whail
wale
whal
whale
The rhyming words "whale", "hale" and "shale" are spelled similarly
6 .
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The day which follows Tuesday and precedes Thursday
Wendsday
Wednersday
Wensday
Wednesday
This is a good example of a word where it's useful to divide into parts: Wed-nes-day. "Wednesday" looks as if it has three syllables, but is pronounced with two
7 .
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A shrill, high-pitched sound
wistle
whistel
wistel
whistle
Here the w sound is made with the digraph wh
8 .
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Having an unusually strange character or behaviour
weird
wierd
weerd
weard
The word "weird" has a weird spelling....
9 .
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The force on an object due to the gravitational attraction between it and the Earth
wait
weight
waite
waight
Think of the word "eight" and add a w at the beginning
10 .
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The short term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place
weathur
weather
wether
whether
Be careful not to confuse "weather" with its homonym, "whether"
You can find more about this topic by visiting BBC Bitesize - Spelling

Author:  Sheri Smith

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