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Spell Bee Word: Cereal


What does cereal mean?

Word: Cereal

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Cereal means a plant such as wheat, rice or maize grown for its seeds, or a breakfast food made from them, often eaten with milk.

Sounds like: serial (a story or TV show told in parts, one after another)

How do you spell cereal?

Syllables: ce - re - al

Tricky part: Cereal finishes with eal, not ial: it is not the same word as serial.

Watch out for: cerial, cereel

Memory tip: Cereal and real end the same way, with e-a-l.

Cereal in a sentence

Example 1: I eat cereal with banana for breakfast.

Example 2: Farmers in Canada grow cereals in their fields.

Example 3: Kunal poured too much milk into his cereal bowl.

Fun Fact

The word cereal comes from an old Latin word linked to farming and grain crops.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) biscuit
b) pancake
c) noodles
d) sereal

Show answer

d) sereal. Cereal starts with c, even though it sounds like s.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Dev had a bowl of cerreal before school.

a) school
b) cerreal
c) bowl
d) before

Show answer

b) cerreal. Cereal has only one r.

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word:

cereal

a) fruit
b) grain
c) juice
d) sugar

Show answer

b) grain. Wheat, rice and maize are cereals, and each of them is a grain.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

c_real

a) i
b) e
c) a
d) o

Show answer

b) e. The first beat of cereal is ce, with an e after the c.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which plant is NOT a cereal crop?

a) barley
b) millet
c) maize
d) potato

Show answer

d) potato

2. Which food is made from a cereal?

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

Show answer

b) bread

Associated Words

Words that end in -eal: ideal, oatmeal, appeal

More words from this list

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