NCERT Solutions for Class 5th English Chapter 7 B. Spellathon — Let us Do
Book page 90 Updated on2026-09-19
Q1.
Spellathon. How many words of three or more letters can you make from the letters shown in the following wheel?
The letter wheel on page 90 — six letters around the rim and one in the middle.
Rule: One letter can be used as many times as it appears in the wheel.
For example: Tea, Reach
Answer
First, list the letters you are allowed to use. The wheel has six letters around the rim and one in the middle:
A · C · E · E · H · R · T
Notice that E appears twice, so you may use E twice in a word. Every other letter may be used only once.
Here are 49 words. Any twenty of them is already a very good score.
Length
Words
3 letters — 18 words
ace, act, arc, are, art, ate, car, cat, ear, eat, era, hat, her, rat, tar, tea, tee, the
4 letters — 16 words
ache, acre, care, cart, char, chat, each, hare, hate, hear, heat, here, race, rate, tear, tree
Write the seven letters at the top of a fresh page: A C E E H R T.
Start with the short ones. Take each letter in turn and try to add two more — a-c-e, a-c-t, a-r-c.
Look for pairs that often go together in English: ch (chat, char, reach), th (the, three), ea (each, eat, hear), ee (tee, tree).
Grow a short word into a longer one. Eat → heat → cheat. Ate → rate → crate.
Check every word against the rule before you write it. Count each letter. Chatter looks tempting, but it needs two ts and the wheel has only one, so it is out.
Words you must NOT write, and why:letter (there is no L), cheese (there is no S), attach (only one T is allowed), career (only one R is allowed).
Q2.
Can you make a seven-letter word using all the letters in the wheel?
Answer
Yes. The seven-letter word is TEACHER.
Check it letter by letter against the wheel:
Letter of TEACHER
T
E
A
C
H
E
R
Found in the wheel?
✓ centre
✓ first E
✓
✓
✓
✓ second E
✓
All seven letters are used, and each one exactly as many times as it appears in the wheel. The two Es of teacher use the two Es of the wheel.
How to find a long word like this: Look for helpful letter groups first. Here you can see -er at the end and tea- at the start. Put them together with ch in the middle and the word appears: tea + ch + er.
A nice extra: The same seven letters also spell cheater and hectare. A hectare is a measure of land, about the size of two football fields. But the word the wheel is really pointing to is teacher — which is fitting for an English lesson.
Q3.
Now, create a letter wheel similar to the above.
Answer
How to build your own letter wheel, in four steps:
Choose a seven-letter word that you like. Pick one with plenty of vowels, or the wheel will be too hard.
Put one letter in the middle. Choose a letter that most words will need — a common one like T, R, S or a vowel.
Write the other six letters in the six spaces around the rim, mixed up so the word is not obvious.
Write the rule below the wheel — “One letter can be used as many times as it appears in the wheel” — and give two example words, as the book does.
Sample answer — my wheel uses the word PAINTER.
My letter wheel. The letters are P, A, I, N, E, R around the rim and T in the middle.
Rule: One letter can be used as many times as it appears in the wheel.
For example:Ten, Paint.
The answers to my wheel (keep these on the next page, so your friends can try first):