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Spell Bee Word: Bacon


What does bacon mean?

Word: Bacon

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Bacon means thin slices of salted or smoked meat from a pig.

How do you spell bacon?

Syllables: ba - con

Tricky part: Bacon has just one c, and the sound in the middle is not spelt with k, even though it sounds like one.

Watch out for: baccon, bakon

Memory tip: Bacon sizzles in a pan: c for crispy, c for cooked, and c, never k, for bacon.

Bacon in a sentence

Example 1: Some hotel breakfasts serve bacon with eggs.

Example 2: The smell of frying bacon came from the cafe.

Example 3: Bacon is cut into thin strips before it is fried.

Fun Fact

Francis Bacon was an English thinker who lived from 1561 to 1626; his surname is spelt just like the food.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) cheese
b) butter
c) baycon
d) bread

Show answer

c) baycon. The long a sound in bacon is spelt with just an a.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

conab

a) bacon
b) cbaon
c) bacno
d) baocn

Show answer

a) bacon. Only one option is the breakfast meat; the others are mixed-up letters.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

At the hotel in Goa, Papa had eggs with crispy bacen for breakfast.

a) hotel
b) bacen
c) breakfast
d) eggs

Show answer

b) bacen. Bacon ends in on, like button and cotton.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 'Bring home the bacon' means to ____.

a) buy meat for the family
b) earn money for the family
c) clean up after the family
d) cook dinner for the family

Show answer

b) earn money for the family

2. Which word looks like bacon but means a light that warns or guides ships?

a) button
b) banner
c) beacon
d) beckon

Show answer

c) beacon

Associated Words

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Next steps

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