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Spell Bee Word: Churn


What does churn mean?

Word: Churn

Part of Speech: Verb

Meaning: Churn means to stir or shake milk or cream hard to make butter. It also means to move or swirl about roughly, like churning water.

Synonyms: stir

How do you spell churn?

Syllables: churn

Tricky part: The sound is spelt ur. Children often write chern or chirn, because er and ir can make the same sound.

Watch out for: chern, chirn, chrun

Memory tip: You take turns to churn the cream: turn and churn end the same way, with -urn.

Churn in a sentence

Example 1: Grandma churns the cream every morning to make fresh butter.

Example 2: The washing machine churned the clothes round and round.

Example 3: We churned buttermilk with a little salt and cumin.

Fun Fact

Butter forms when cream is churned because the shaking makes tiny drops of fat bump into each other and stick together in lumps.

Practise the CREST Way

Sound Check

Which word does not rhyme with the given word?

churn

a) burn
b) learn
c) born
d) fern

Show answer

c) born. Born has an 'or' sound, while the others share the 'urn' sound.

Jumble Tumble

Choose the correct sequence of the jumbled letters to form a meaningful word:

nurch 12345

a) 54231
b) 43521
c) 45321
d) 45231

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d) 45231. Following the numbers gives c, h, u, r, n.

Spell Spies

Choose the misspelt word/s in the given sentence:

On the farm, Ravi watched his uncle churn cream in a wodden barrel.

a) churn and wodden
b) cream and barrel
c) only farm
d) only wodden

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d) only wodden. Churn is right; wooden has a double o.

Spellacadabra

Choose the correct option to make a meaningful word:

_ _urn

a) c
b) ch
c) sh
d) tch

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b) ch. Churn begins with c and h.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When a boat's engine churns the water, it...

a) makes it clean
b) turns it into ice
c) stirs it up into foam
d) makes it very still

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c) stirs it up into foam

2. Which tool could you use to churn cream into butter by hand?

a) a grater
b) a rolling pin
c) a whisk
d) a sieve

Show answer

c) a whisk

Associated Words

More Class 3 Winter Spell Bee words starting with ch: chilly, chemist, chisel, choir

More words from this list

daybreak, flagpole, hundred, nation, saint, strainer, vary, armpit

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