Spell Bee Word: Burger

What does burger mean?

Word: Burger

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Burger means a flat, round cake of chopped meat or vegetables that is cooked and often eaten inside bread.

How do you spell burger?

Syllables: bur - ger

Tricky part: The word starts with bur, with a u. Many children start it with ber instead.

Watch out for: birger, burjer

Memory tip: A good burger is so full it could burst. Burst starts with the same three letters as burger.

Burger in a sentence

Example 1: We shared a paneer burger after the match.

Example 2: Mum makes a healthy burger with beans and carrots.

Example 3: Can I have my burger without onions, please?

Fun Fact

Burger is a shortened form of hamburger, a name that came from the German city of Hamburg.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Dad bought me a veggie burgar for lunch.

a) burgar
b) veggie
c) bought
d) lunch

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a) burgar. The last part sounds like the end of sister, and it is spelt the same way.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

burgerr

a) g
b) e
c) b
d) r

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d) r. Burger has only one r at the end.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

rgebru

a) burgre
b) buregr
c) burger
d) brugre

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c) burger. Only one choice keeps the u right after the b and the g in the middle.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) noodels
b) sandwich
c) burger
d) biscuit

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a) noodels. Noodles ends in les; burger, biscuit and sandwich are spelt right.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What might a vegetable burger be made from?

a) potato and peas
b) mango and ice
c) milk and sugar
d) curd and rice

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a) potato and peas

2. Burgers are a fast food. What else is?

a) a mango
b) a cucumber
c) a carrot
d) a pizza

Show answer

d) a pizza

Associated Words

Words that end in -ger: eager, ginger, manager, finger, anger, charger

More words from this list

decoration, furniture, however, meatball, poke, shiver, through, ache

Next steps

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