beautiful in cursive
This is how beautiful looks in school cursive: 9 letters, and the parts to watch are that be is a high join and f goes below the line. Print the sheet below to practise it.
beautiful written once as a model, then in grey to trace, then on empty lines to write alone.
Prints on US Letter and A4, in black and white. Free for home and classroom use.
How to write it, step by step
- Join the letters without lifting your pencil: b, e, a, u, t, i, f, u and l.
- Watch the high join (be): after b, o, v or w, the next letter starts at the midline, not the baseline.
- Let the f drop below the baseline and loop back up through it.
- When the word is finished, go back to cross the t and dot the i.
All 9 letters, one by one
Tap a letter to see how it is written on its own.
Tips for each letter
- b
- Dropping the ending to the baseline. b ends high, at the midline, so the next letter starts from there.
- e
- Making the loop too big, so e looks like l. The loop stays below the midline.
- a
- Leaving the top open, so a looks like u. Close the circle before you slant down.
- u
- Rounding the bottom points into a w. Cursive u has two points at the top, not three.
- t
- Making t as tall as l, or adding a loop. Cursive t is shorter than the tall letters and has no loop.
- i
- Stopping to dot the i in the middle of a word. Finish the word first, then dot.
- f
- Leaving off the lower loop. Cursive f goes above and below the line: a top loop and a bottom loop.
- l
- Making the loop so thin it disappears, so l looks like a tall i without a dot. Keep the loop open.
Write it yourself
Questions parents ask
How do you write beautiful in cursive?
Join the letters without lifting your pencil: b, e, a, u, t, i, f, u and l. Watch the high join (be): after b, o, v or w, the next letter starts at the midline, not the baseline. Let the f drop below the baseline and loop back up through it. When the word is finished, go back to cross the t and dot the i.
How many letters are in beautiful?
beautiful has 9 letters: b, e, a, u, t, i, f, u, l.
Is beautiful hard to write in cursive?
Most of it joins smoothly. The parts that need care: be is a high join and f goes below the line. Trace it a few times on the sheet and it soon feels natural.