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Spell Bee Word: Cake


What does cake mean?

Word: Cake

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Cake means a soft, sweet food made with flour and sugar and baked, often eaten on birthdays.

How do you spell cake?

Syllables: cake

Tricky part: Cake starts with a c, even though it begins with a k sound. Kake is a common mistake.

Watch out for: kake, kaik

Memory tip: Cake starts with the same c as cup and candle, the things you see on a birthday table.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. a piece of cake: Something very easy. Example: "The puzzle was a piece of cake for Mia."

Cake in a sentence

Example 1: Mum baked a chocolate cake.

Example 2: We cut the cake at my birthday party.

Example 3: Can I have one more piece of cake?

Fun Fact

A birthday cake often has one candle for each year of the child's age.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell Spies

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) cake
b) caek

Show answer

a) cake. In caek, the e and the k have swapped places.

Sound Check

Choose the word which does not rhyme with 'cake':

a) back
b) bake

Show answer

a) back. Bake rhymes with cake. Back has a short a and no long ay sound.

Spellacadabra

Remove one letter to make a meaningful word:

cakke

a) a
b) k

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b) k. Only one k is needed; the second one makes cakke.

Jumble Tumble

Rearrange the jumbled letters to form a hidden word:

kace

a) ckae
b) cake

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b) cake. Read it as the treat you cut on a birthday.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which shop sells cakes?

a) a shoe shop
b) a toy shop
c) a chemist
d) a bakery

Show answer

d) a bakery

2. Where is a cake usually baked?

a) in a cupboard
b) in a sink
c) in an oven
d) in a fridge

Show answer

c) in an oven

Associated Words

More Senior KG Winter Spell Bee words starting with c: cool, come, cost

More words from this list

ever, give, is, most, pay, shop, them, word

Next steps

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