Is your little prince or princess talking a lot? Then you must be looking for ways to enrich their fluency with a big and compact vocabulary, right? As parents, we all wish to give our kids the guidance and opportunity to learn some new words and develop a sound vocabulary.
The most effective way to learn some new words is to know them, along with their actual meaning, play with them, etc.
However, you may be struggling to figure out how to do this. There is no need to worry, as we are here to help you in this journey of enhancing the vocabulary of your children. Let us tell your tiny tots some interesting three letter words that start with the sixteenth letter.
So…here…we go with the letter….P.
List Of 3 Letter Words Starting With P
| pad | the fleshy underpart of an animal’s foot |
| pal | a friend |
| pan | a metal container used for cooking food in |
| pap | bland soft or semi-liquid food, suitable for babies |
| par | the number of strokes a player need for a particular course or hole |
| pat | touch gently and quickly with the flat of the hand |
| pav | a dessert filled with fruit and whipped cream |
| paw | an animal’s foot having pads and claws |
| pax | a call for a truce |
| pay | give money that is due for work done or good received/ suffer a misfortune as a consequence |
| pea | a round green seed that is eaten as a vegetable |
| pec | a pectoral muscle |
| pee | to urinate |
| peg | a short pin or blot, usually tapered at one end |
| peh | the seventh letter in the Hebrew alphabet |
| pen | an instrument with ink, used for writing or drawing |
| pep | liveliness |
| per | for each |
| pes | the human foot |
| pet | a domestic or tamed animal kept for pleasure or companionship |
| pew | a long bench with a back, placed in rows in the mid part of churches |
| phi | the twenty first letter of the Greek alphabet |
| pho | a type of Vietnamese soup, made from spices and beef stock |
| pop | make a light explosive sound/ go somewhere for a short time without notice |
| pot | a cylindrical or rounded container |
| pow | expressing the sound of an explosion |
| pox | a specific type of viral disease that produces a rash of pimples |
| pre | previous to/ before |
| pro | a professional |
| pry | inquire too closely into a person’s personal matters |
| pub | an establishment that sells beer or other drinks |
| pug | a dog of a dwarf breed/a small, slender moth |
| put | place in a certain position |
| pun | a joke exploiting the different meanings of a word |
| pup | a young dog |
| pus | a thick greenish or yellowish liquid produced in infected tissue |
| pya | a monetary unit of Burma |
| pic | a photograph |
| pie | a baked dish of fruit, or vegetables and meat |
| pig | an omnivorous domesticated hoofed mammal |
| pin | a thin piece of metal with a sharp point at one end |
| pip | a small hard seed in a fruit |
| pir | a Muslim saint |
| pit | a large hole in the ground |
| pod | an elongated seed vessel of a plant like pea |
| poo | used to express disgust |
| ply | a layer of a laminated or folded material |
It will be an unforgettable experience to study some acronyms that start with the letter P, isn’t it?
Children sometimes encounter a few common acronyms or abbreviations that may attract their interest. So, let’s discuss some of them.
List Of 3 Letter Acronyms That Start With P
| PAC | Political Action Committee |
| PAS | Personal Alert System/Physician-assisted suicide |
| PED | Performance Enhancing Drug |
| POS | Point Of Sale |
| POM | Production and operations management |
| PAA | Position Area for Artillery |
| PAI | Pre-Approval Inspection |
| PAM | Precision Attack Missile |
| PAO | Public Affairs Officer |
| PBD | PolyButaDiene |
| PBS | Public Broadcasting Service |
| PCL | Passive Coherent Location |
| PDA | Personal Digital Assistant/public Display of Affection/Push-Down Automaton |
| PDD | Past Due Date |
| PDG | President Director General |
| Portable Document Format | |
| PDL | Pure Dumb Luck |
| PDU | Protocol Data Unit/ Power Distribution Unit |
| PET | Personal Electronic Transactor |
| PfP | Partnership for Peace |
| PGP | Pretty Good Privacy |
| PHP | Hypertext Preprocessor |
| PIC | Person In Charge |
| PIN | Personal Identification Number |
| PLC | Public Limited Company |
| PME | Professional Military Education |
| PNF | Pilot Not Flying |
| POV | Point Of View |
| POW | Prisoner of War |
| PPM | Parts Per Million |
| PTA | Parent Teacher Association |
| PVC | PolyVinyl Chloride |
| PVR | Personal Video Recorder |
Activities With 3 Letter Words Starting With P
You will be able to easily teach many useful new words to your kids. However, your little partner may not be able to remember those words if they do not get the chance to use the words in an interesting way!
Now, it is not so easy or sometimes even possible for them to read some books…or jot down many new words with their correct meanings!! Hence, eventually, they will lose interest in studies!
So, the most effective method is to encourage those curious little souls to be engaged in some interesting activities that will assist them to remain focused and learn something new. Thus, here are some of those helpful word activities that will motivate your little prince and princesses to learn and correctly use some new three-letter words.
1. Word Puzzles
You can play this game with your little friends because there are multiple types of interesting word puzzles that will always make your kids happy. One of the easiest ones is to enjoy this by using scramble tiles and instruct your kids to take their time in unscrambling them.
While playing this word activity, your little kids can learn as well as remember some new three-letters words.
You can draw all of the letters or alphabets on the ground at first, and then shout out a word, like a pug. Your ids will have to find out and then step on each letter of the word pug to complete the word puzzle game.
The opposite way may also be quite fun and interesting. Your child will have to step on three letters of a word and then you will have to say the word created by your children.
2. Name Game
Another remarkable yet really amazing activity is name games. You can easily strengthen the vocabulary of your tiny tots just by playing this game with them.
When you are trying to teach your little prince and princesses some new three-letter words that start with P, it will be good to play this interesting game. In this, you will need to ask a question and your child will have to answer that.
You can play this word activity in turns as well, for example, once you will ask the question to your kid and your little one will answer them and then do just the opposite. This will inspire your children to be more interested in learning some new words while having great fun.
Examples:
Q: What is an instrument with ink, and is used for writing or drawing?
Ans: Pen
Q: What do we call a domestic or tamed animal kept for pleasure or companionship?
Ans: Pet
Q: What is a round green seed that is eaten as a vegetable?
Ans: Pea
Q: What do we call an establishment that sells beer or other drinks?
Ans: Pub
Q: What is a baked dish of fruit, or vegetables and meat?
Ans: Pie
Q: How will you describe the act of inquiring too closely into a person’s personal matters?
Ans: Pry
3. Fill In The Blanks
Another simple yet really interesting way to teach your little partners some three-letter words that start with P is to conduct fill-in-the-blanks activity.
With this, those little things will be able to learn some new words that will be of great help in their future studies.
Example:
P_Y
PO_
P_T
P_X
P_N
PI_
4. Word Matching Game
This is another interesting way through which you can teach your kids. For this, you will need Flash Cards. In reality, to enjoy this activity, you will require two sets of cards. One will carry some fun pictures and the other will have the three-letter words starting with P.
You may use the words, such as pet, pen, pin, pit, pug, pox, pub, pro, put, etc., and get the cards that have these words. Then, just show your kid how to read the cards and match them with the respective words.
Also, you may show your little kid how to do the matching and then ask them to follow you in the next step.
Conclusion
Hope all these fun word games will help you in your journey of providing some interesting knowledge to your little kids. Also, stay with us for some other exciting ideas.
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