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Spell Bee Word: Butterscotch


What does butterscotch mean?

Word: Butterscotch

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Butterscotch means a golden-brown flavour, or a hard sweet, made by cooking butter and brown sugar together.

How do you spell butterscotch?

Syllables: but - ter - scotch

Tricky part: Keep the double t at the start: b-u-t-t. Children often write buterscotch with one t.

Watch out for: buterscotch, butterscoch, buterskotch

Memory tip: Butter has two t's standing side by side, like two pats of butter on a plate.

Butterscotch in a sentence

Example 1: Butterscotch is my favourite ice-cream flavour.

Example 2: Grandpa keeps a jar of butterscotch sweets on his desk.

Example 3: The cake had a crunchy butterscotch topping.

Fun Fact

In the 1800s the English town of Doncaster became famous for its butterscotch sweets.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Fusion

Add the correct option to the following to make a new word:

butter______

a) scotch
b) scoch
c) scotth
d) scotsh

Show answer

a) scotch. The second part ends in t, c, h, as in match.

Spellacadabra

Choose the correct option to make a meaningful word:

butter_ _otch

a) sh
b) ch
c) sk
d) sc

Show answer

d) sc. After butter come s and c.

Spell Spies

Choose the misspelt word/s in the given sentence:

The new bakary near our school sells butterscotch cookies on Saturdays.

a) only bakary
b) sells and Saturdays
c) butterscotch and bakary
d) only cookies

Show answer

a) only bakary. Butterscotch is right; bakery is spelt with er.

Word Champ

Which of the words cannot be made using the letters in the given word?

butterscotch

a) crust
b) cutter
c) shoes
d) torch

Show answer

c) shoes. Shoes needs two s's, but butterscotch has only one.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these flavours is most like butterscotch?

a) mango
b) lemon
c) caramel
d) orange

Show answer

c) caramel

2. Which of these is a butterscotch treat most likely to be?

a) a toffee
b) a sandwich
c) a chutney
d) a pickle

Show answer

a) a toffee

Associated Words

More Class 3 Winter Spell Bee words starting with b: bronze, bracket, basement, berth, bough, border

More words from this list

crooked, dustpan, harmonium, matron, process, sprain, thought, wrap

Next steps

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