Here is a word family nobody has studied as vocabulary. Guess what it means, and say what made you guess.
hospital · hôpital · ospidéal
Three body words, five languages each. Listen as each word is played on the board. Look across one row at a time and put your hand up when two spellings look or sound almost the same.
We are hunting one clear cousin pair per body word, not learning every form by heart.
Word cousins are words in different languages that share a meaning and look or sound alike. Now try the same detective skill on animal words.
Two piles only:
Worked example before you vote: English flower and French fleur (flur) — true cousins (same meaning, related shape). English chat (talk) and French chat (shah, cat) — tricky lookalike (same letters, different job).
Preview shape: does English tiger sit near a word in another language, or is it a trap? Sort each pair and name your clue before the reveal.
Open your copy. Write one word you unlocked today (from the animal pairs or the body words) and the clue you used.
Copy the spelling from the board or from a model below. Use a frame like this (fill it with your own unlock, not a copied answer):
Body-part cousin models (copy only if you choose one of these):
Look at the table of today's three body words across five languages. This is a quick pattern check, not a new list to learn.
Detective hunt: Find two cousin pairs and one form that does not look like English. Point and tell us the clue.
Same unlock on animal words (from the hunt):
The skill is the same across themes.
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