Spell Bee Word: Chocolate

What does chocolate mean?

Word: Chocolate

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Chocolate means a sweet brown food made from cocoa beans. It is eaten as a bar or made into a drink.

How do you spell chocolate?

Syllables: choc - o - late

Tricky part: Many people do not say the middle o clearly, so it is easy to leave it out. The end is late, not let.

Watch out for: choclit, chocolete

Memory tip: That round o in the middle is the letter people drop: picture it as a round chocolate button.

Chocolate in a sentence

Example 1: Nani gave us chocolate after dinner.

Example 2: My birthday cake had chocolate icing.

Example 3: Hot chocolate tastes nice on a cold day.

Fun Fact

Chocolate is made from the seeds of the cacao tree. The seeds grow inside big pods that hang from the trunk.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) chocolate
b) chokkolate
c) chockolate
d) chokolate

Show answer

a) chocolate. Chocolate has a plain c before the first o, with no k.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

taclecooh

a) hcocolate
b) cocholate
c) chocolate
d) chcoolate

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c) chocolate. Find late for the end first; a lone o sits just before the l.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

We bought a bar of chacolate at the shop.

a) bought
b) bar
c) chacolate
d) shop

Show answer

c) chacolate. The first vowel of chocolate is o, as in chop.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

c_ocolate

a) h
b) s
c) l
d) r

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a) h. Chocolate starts with ch, as in chop.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Eating too much chocolate is bad for your ____.

a) eyes
b) nails
c) teeth
d) hair

Show answer

c) teeth

2. What happens to a chocolate bar left in the hot sun?

a) It freezes.
b) It hardens.
c) It grows.
d) It melts.

Show answer

d) It melts.

Associated Words

Words that end in -ate: crate, climate, skate, decorate, classmate, estimate

More words from this list

drink, giggle, lean, pattern, scarlet, tailor, yell, begin

Next steps

How to participate in CREST International Spell Bee

The CREST International Spell Bee (CSB) is conducted in two editions – CREST International Spell Bee - Summer (CSB) and CREST International Spell Bee - Winter (CSBW) – giving students across the globe an opportunity to showcase and enhance their spelling proficiency. Designed for young learners from Senior KG to Class 8, the competition focuses on word-building, pronunciation, and vocabulary enrichment, helping students develop strong linguistic skills.

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