Word and fact of the day: Tuesday, October 27, 2026

Peabody's word of the day for October 27, 2026 is "munch" (chew with big, noisy bites) at level 2, up to "ineffable" at level 8, with a fact at each of levels 1 to 13. Words and facts come from Peabody's own banks, with no AI, and are free through the end of 2026.

By Aaron, founder of PeabodyChecked 27 October 2026

Level	Word of the day	What it means	In a sentence
2	munch	chew with big, noisy bites	The rabbit munches a crunchy carrot.
3	mighty	very strong and powerful	The mighty river carved the canyon.
4	scarce	hard to find because there is little	Water was scarce in the dry desert.
5	frantic	wild with hurry or worry	We made a frantic search for the lost kitten.
6	nourish	give what is needed to grow and be healthy	Rain and sun nourish the garden.
7	impervious	not letting anything through	The raincoat is impervious to water.
8	ineffable	too great to be put into words	The view from the peak was ineffable.

Fact of the day

Level	Fact	From
1	People talk in many ways. Some speak Spanish.	Hola and Gracias (Languages)
2	Be kind online, just like you are in real life. Say friendly things to people. Remember to take breaks and rest your eyes!	Just for Us (Online)
3	Sometimes a box pops up that says you won a prize, or that something is wrong with your screen. These messages are often tricks. Never click on them, and never type in your name or a password. Close the box and show a grown-up right away.	Tricks and Passwords (Online)
4	Opinion writing tells what you think, and then it gives reasons. A reason helps your reader understand why you feel that way. You could write: I think summer is my favorite season. One reason is that I can swim in the lake. Another reason is that the days are long, so I can play outside until dinner. Facts can make your reasons even stronger.	Fact or Opinion? (Write)
5	Rights come with jobs for citizens, too. One of the most important jobs is voting. In the United States, citizens can vote once they turn eighteen. Voters choose the people who serve in Congress, and they help choose the President. Kids can get ready to be good citizens long before then. They can learn about their rights. They can listen to people who think in a different way, and they can help out at school and in their town.	The Constitution and Our Rights (Citizenship)
6	Why don't the planets fly off into space? The answer is a force called gravity, which is a pull between any two things that have mass. Mass is the amount of stuff that something is made of, and the more mass something has, the stronger its pull. The sun has far more mass than anything else in our solar system, so its gravity is very strong, and it pulls on every planet. But each planet is also moving very fast, so it does not fall into the sun. Instead, it keeps curving around the sun in a path called an orbit.	Gravity and the Solar System (Science)
7	Second person point of view speaks straight to the reader with the pronouns you and your. One example is "You open the creaky door and step inside." It is rare in stories, but you often see it in directions and recipes, and in some game books where the reader makes the choices. Third person point of view uses pronouns like he, she and they, along with the characters' names. In third person, the narrator stands outside the story and describes the characters from a little distance. In the sentence "Marco grabbed his backpack and ran for the bus," the narrator is not Marco but someone telling us about him.	Who Is Telling the Story? (Write)
8	Now follow a roller coaster from start to finish. A motor and a chain pull the cars slowly to the top of the first hill, which gives them a large amount of potential energy. As the cars roll down, potential energy changes into kinetic energy, so they go faster and faster until they reach the bottom. As they climb the next hill, kinetic energy changes back into potential energy, and the cars slow down. Energy is never created or destroyed, and it only changes form, a rule called the law of conservation of energy. Some energy does leave the moving cars, though, because friction and air resistance turn a bit of it into heat and sound. That is why each later hill must be lower than the first one.	Kinetic and Potential Energy (Workshop)
9	Once you know the -ar verbs, how do you use Spanish verbs that end in -er and -ir? Spanish puts its regular verbs into three families, and each family is named for the last two letters of the basic form that you would find in a dictionary. You already know the first family, which includes hablar, meaning to speak. The second family ends in -er, like comer, which means to eat, and the third family ends in -ir, like vivir, which means to live. The good news is that the method is the same for all three families. First you take off the last two letters to find the stem, and then you add a new ending that matches the person who is doing the action, just as you learned to do before.	-er and -ir Verbs (Languages)
10	The other health-related parts are flexibility and body composition. Flexibility is how far a joint can move, meaning how far it can comfortably bend, straighten or turn, and it is different for each joint, so a person might have loose shoulders but tight muscles in the backs of the legs. Body composition simply describes what your body is made of, which is a mix of muscle, bone, fat and other tissues, and every healthy body needs all of them. Some experts count balance as a health-related part too, since good balance helps people of every age move safely. A gymnast, a distance runner and a weightlifter might each be great at a different part, which shows that there is more than one way to be fit.	The Parts of Fitness (Move)
11	Intervals are named by counting letter names, and the count always includes both the starting note and the ending note, moving upward from the lower note. From C up to E is called a third, because the count covers three letter names: C, D and E. From C up to G is called a fifth, since counting from C through G produces five letter names, and from one C up to the next C is called an octave, a word that comes from the Latin word for eight, because that interval spans eight letter names altogether. A common mistake is to count only the steps between the two notes, which produces an answer that is exactly one too small. You can hear a perfect fifth at the very beginning of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, on the upward jump from the second note of the melody to the third.	Intervals (Music)
12	What makes an idea scientific? A useful starting point is the hypothesis, a proposed explanation that can be checked against evidence. A good hypothesis makes a definite prediction, so that some possible observation could come out against it. Suppose Lena thinks her tomato plants grow taller when they receive more sunlight. That idea leads to a clear prediction: plants placed in a sunny spot should end up taller than matching plants placed in the shade. If the shaded plants grew just as tall, the hypothesis would be in trouble. Compare that with a claim such as, the plants grow because of an invisible force that no instrument could ever detect. No possible observation could ever count against that claim, so it cannot be tested, and scientists would not treat it as a scientific hypothesis at all, however interesting it might sound.	Testing an Idea (Think)
13	Analyzing asks how the parts of the work are organized, and critics often call this stage formal analysis, because it concentrates on the visual form of a work rather than on the story it seems to tell. You examine the elements of art, such as line, shape, color, value, texture and space. Then you consider how the artist arranged those elements using principles like balance, contrast, emphasis and movement. In the lighthouse painting, you might notice that the yellow beam is the brightest area in the entire picture, set against nearly black water, so the strong contrast immediately pulls your eye toward it. The diagonal line of the beam might then lead your eye across the canvas toward the small boat, visually connecting the two most important parts of the composition: the source of the light and the vessel that appears to depend on it. At this stage, you are still explaining how the picture works, and you are not yet deciding what it means or whether it succeeds.	Looking Like a Critic (Art)

Each fact is a page from one of Peabody's World trails, which carry named sources; this one cites Real Academia Española, Diccionario de la lengua española: hola, gracias.

How the day's picks are made

Nothing is written for the day and nothing is asked of a child. The date picks one word from each level's bank of 40 words and one fact from each level's bank (61 facts at level 1, 63 facts at level 2, 53 facts at level 3, 50 facts at level 4, 49 facts at level 5, 39 facts at level 6, 39 facts at level 7, 39 facts at level 8, 39 facts at level 9, 39 facts at level 10, 38 facts at level 11, 39 facts at level 12 and 39 facts at level 13), visiting each before any repeats. The levels here are the grade-sized steps of Peabody's word and fact banks, not the reading levels 0 to 18; the word bank covers levels 2 to 8, the fact bank levels 1 to 3.

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Questions parents ask

How do I use the word of the day?

Say the word and its meaning at dinner, look for it in a book, and use it once yourself. Then see if your child spots it.

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Checked against how Peabody works on 27 October 2026. Written with help from AI, from Peabody's own code and library. Peabody is a learning app, not an assessment: if you're worried about your child's learning, talk to their teacher.