best friend in cursive
This is how best friend looks in school cursive: 10 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.
best friend 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, s, t, f, r, i, e, n and d.
- 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 words are finished, go back to cross the t and dot the i.
- Leave a gap about the width of a small o between words.
All 10 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.
- s
- Writing it like a print s. Cursive s is a point at the top and a small closed belly at the bottom.
- t
- Making t as tall as l, or adding a loop. Cursive t is shorter than the tall letters and has no loop.
- f
- Leaving off the lower loop. Cursive f goes above and below the line: a top loop and a bottom loop.
- r
- Rounding the top so r looks like an i or an n. The small flat step at the top is what makes the r.
- i
- Stopping to dot the i in the middle of a word. Finish the word first, then dot.
- n
- Pointy tops that make n look like u upside down. The humps are round on top.
- d
- Making a loop on the tall stick. Cursive d goes up and back down on the same line, with no loop.
Write it yourself
Questions parents ask
How do you write best friend in cursive?
Join the letters without lifting your pencil: b, e, s, t, f, r, i, e, n and d. 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 words are finished, go back to cross the t and dot the i. Leave a gap about the width of a small o between words.
How many letters are in best friend?
best friend has 10 letters: b, e, s, t, f, r, i, e, n, d.
Is best friend 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.