What does almond mean?
Word: Almond
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Almond means an oval, pale brown nut with a thin skin. Almonds are eaten raw, soaked or roasted, and used in sweets.
How do you spell almond?
Syllables: al - mond
Tricky part: Many people do not say the l, so children leave it out and write amond.
Watch out for: amond, allmond, ammond
Memory tip: Picture the tall l in almond as the almond tree the nut grows on. No tree, no almond.
Almond in a sentence
Example 1: Mummy gives me five soaked almonds every morning.
Example 2: The rice pudding had thin slices of almond on top.
Example 3: Grandpa sprinkled chopped almonds over the cake.
Fun Fact
Most of the world's almonds are grown in California, in the USA.
Practise the CREST Way
Spellacadabra
Choose the option in which the following letters will fit in the given order:
a, o
a) l_m_n
b) w_ln_t
c) _lm_nd
d) s_g_r
Show answer
c) _lm_nd. Put a in the first gap and o in the second to get almond.
Jumble Tumble
Which option has letters that you can rearrange to form the name of a nut?
a) rwalnt
b) rasinn
c) dlnoma
d) shewcaa
Show answer
c) dlnoma. Only dlnoma uses exactly the letters of almond. The others have a letter too many or a wrong one.
Spell Spies
Choose the option with no spelling errors:
a) peanut, almond, apricot, coconut
b) peanut, almond, aprikot, cokonut
c) peanutt, almond, apricot, cocanut
d) peanat, almond, apricote, coconut
Show answer
a) peanut, almond, apricot, coconut. Every word in this list is right: peanut has ea, apricot has a c, and coconut has two c's and no k.
Word Champ
Which of the words cannot be made using the letters in the given word?
almond
a) loan
b) land
c) mad
d) lemon
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d) lemon. There is no e in almond, so lemon cannot be made.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which of these is a nut, like an almond?
a) apricot
b) raisin
c) pistachio
d) dried fig
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c) pistachio
2. Which part of the almond do we usually eat?
a) the leaves of the tree
b) the seed inside the shell
c) the bark of the tree
d) the pink flowers
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b) the seed inside the shell
