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Spell Bee Word: Breakfast


Basic Details

Word: Breakfast

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: The first meal of the day, eaten in the morning.

How to Spell Breakfast

Syllables: break - fast

Tricky part: We say brek-fust, but the spelling keeps both words whole: break with ea, and fast with a.

Watch out for: brekfast, breakfest, brakefast

Memory tip: You have not eaten all night, so you are fasting. In the morning you break that fast: break + fast.

Usage Examples

Example 1: We had idli and chutney for breakfast.

Example 2: Ammi says breakfast is the most important meal of the day.

Example 3: On Sundays, Papa makes aloo paratha for breakfast.

Fun Fact

Cornflakes were first made in the 1890s by the Kellogg brothers in Michigan, USA.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Makeup

Choose the correctly spelt compound word:

a) breakfest
b) breakfast
c) brekfast
d) brakefast

Show answer

b) breakfast. Break and fast are both spelt in full, even though we say brek-fust.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

kafsbtera

a) berakfast
b) braekfast
c) breakfast
d) breakfsat

Show answer

c) breakfast. Break comes first; f, a, s, t are what remain.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

breackfast

a) a
b) c
c) r
d) k

Show answer

b) c. Break ends in ak with no c.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When do we eat breakfast?

a) at teatime
b) in the morning
c) at midnight
d) after dinner

Show answer

b) in the morning

2. Which of these is a breakfast food?

a) a shoe
b) a pillow
c) poha
d) a pencil

Show answer

c) poha

Associated Words

archerycauliflowerunhappylighthousepeaceful
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