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Spell Bee Word: Chef


What does chef mean?

Word: Chef

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Chef means a person trained to prepare food, especially the one in charge of a restaurant or hotel kitchen.

How do you spell chef?

Syllables: chef

Tricky part: Chef came from French, so its ch makes an sh sound, as it does in parachute.

Watch out for: shef, chefe

Memory tip: A chef is the chief of the kitchen. Write chief and take out the i, and you have chef.

Chef in a sentence

Example 1: The chef at the hotel made us dosa with three chutneys.

Example 2: Riya wants to be a chef when she grows up.

Example 3: Our school chef wears a white cap and apron.

Fun Fact

A chef's tall white hat is called a toque; a popular story says its many folds once stood for the ways a chef could cook an egg.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) waitor
b) chef
c) baiker
d) cashiar

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b) chef. Waiter ends in er, baker has no i, and cashier ends in ier.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

cheff

a) c
b) e
c) f
d) h

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c) f. Chef ends with a single f.

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word: chef

a) farmer
b) cook
c) driver
d) tailor

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b) cook. A chef cooks for a living, so cook is the word closest in meaning.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

The chef cut the carrots into thin slises.

a) slises
b) carrots
c) chef
d) thin

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a) slises. Slices has a soft c in the middle, as in nice. Chef is spelt right here.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Pick the tool a chef reaches for most often.

a) a spanner
b) a frying pan
c) a stethoscope
d) a paintbrush

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b) a frying pan

2. In which word does ch sound like sh, as it does in chef?

a) machine
b) cheese
c) lunch
d) chair

Show answer

a) machine

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Next steps

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