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Spell Bee Word: Butter


What does butter mean?

Word: Butter

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Butter means a soft, yellow food made by churning cream. We spread it on bread or melt it on food.

How do you spell butter?

Syllables: but - ter

Tricky part: Butter has a double t in the middle. Said quickly it can sound like one t.

Watch out for: buter, buuter

Memory tip: Picture two pats of butter side by side: they are the two t's in the middle of but-ter.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. butter someone up: say nice things to someone to get something Example: "Rahul buttered up his sister so she would share her chocolate."

Butter in a sentence

Example 1: I spread butter on my paratha.

Example 2: The butter melted in the hot pan.

Example 3: We bought a small packet of butter.

Fun Fact

Lord Krishna is often called Makhan Chor, the butter thief, because of stories about him stealing butter as a child.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) buttor
b) buttur
c) butter
d) buttar

Show answer

c) butter. Butter has e as its last vowel, like sister.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

butterr

a) t
b) u
c) r
d) e

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c) r. Butter ends with one r.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

ubttre

a) buettr
b) bttuer
c) butter
d) ubtter

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c) butter. Start with b-u, and the two t's that follow hold the middle.

Word Chain

Complete the word sequence:

milk, cream, butter, ____

a) bread
b) jam
c) ghee
d) honey

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c) ghee. Milk gives cream, cream is churned into butter, and butter is heated to make ghee.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Butter and ____ are both made from milk.

a) cheese
b) jam
c) bread
d) honey

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a) cheese

2. Where should you keep butter so it stays firm?

a) in the fridge
b) in a lunch box
c) beside the stove
d) on the windowsill

Show answer

a) in the fridge

Associated Words

Words that end in -ter: firefighter, waiter, writer, painter, scooter, sweater

More words from this list

cute, fish, horse, nail, rabbit, snail, Tuesday, artist

Next steps

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