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Spell Bee Word: Cabbage


What does cabbage mean?

Word: Cabbage

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Cabbage means a large, round vegetable made of thick green or purple leaves wrapped tightly together.

How do you spell cabbage?

Syllables: cab - bage

Tricky part: Cabbage has two b's side by side. Writing just one is the common slip.

Watch out for: cabage, kabage

Memory tip: Two round b's sit side by side, like two cabbages in a basket.

Cabbage in a sentence

Example 1: Mummy chopped a cabbage for the sabzi.

Example 2: The farmer loaded a cart full of cabbages.

Example 3: Purple cabbage makes a salad look bright and fresh.

Fun Fact

Red cabbage juice can change colour: it turns pink when lemon juice is added and greenish when baking soda is added.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) cabbadge
b) cabbaje
c) cabbag
d) cabbage

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d) cabbage. The j sound at the end is spelt with g, and an e closes the word.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

caabbage

a) b
b) c
c) g
d) a

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d) a. Only one a comes before the b's.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

gbbaeac

a) cabbage
b) cabbaeg
c) cabbgae
d) cabbgea

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a) cabbage. Only one of these orders spells the round, leafy vegetable.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Nani grows a big kabbage in her kitchen garden.

a) grows
b) garden
c) kitchen
d) kabbage

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d) kabbage. Cabbage begins with the c of cat, not a k.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When you peel a cabbage, what do you take off, one by one?

a) roots
b) flowers
c) seeds
d) leaves

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d) leaves

2. Which of these dishes is most likely to have cabbage in it?

a) a vegetable salad
b) a mango milkshake
c) a bowl of ice cream
d) a cup of tea

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a) a vegetable salad

Associated Words

waterfallbroccoliblissgroupcelebrate
happinessdiligenceelegantluxuryabsorb

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