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Spell Bee Word: Cobalt


What does cobalt mean?

Word: Cobalt

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Cobalt means a hard, silvery-grey metal. It is used to make a deep blue colour, called cobalt blue, for glass and paint.

How do you spell cobalt?

Syllables: co - balt

Tricky part: It starts with a hard c, not a k, and there is only one l.

Watch out for: kobalt, coballt, cobalte

Memory tip: Cobalt blue is a deep, strong blue used on pottery. Let the one tall l in the word be the brush that paints it.

Cobalt in a sentence

Example 1: The blue tiles in the old palace were coloured with cobalt.

Example 2: Our art teacher mixed cobalt blue paint for the sky.

Example 3: Cobalt is used in the batteries of many mobile phones.

Fun Fact

Cobalt is named after the Kobold, a mischievous goblin of German folk tales. Miners blamed the goblin when this ore was hard to work and gave them no silver.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

cobbalt

a) a
b) l
c) o
d) b

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d) b. There is only one b in the word.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) mercury
b) cobolt
c) silver
d) copper

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b) cobolt. The second vowel is an a, even though the word sounds a little like bolt.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

ltaboc

a) cobweb
b) ballot
c) combat
d) cobalt

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d) cobalt. Combat and cobalt start the same way, but only cobalt uses the l in the jumble.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Grandpa bought a cobalt blue jug at the craft exibition in Lisbon.

a) cobalt
b) jug
c) exibition
d) Grandpa

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c) exibition. Exhibition has a silent h after the x.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Cobalt is a metal. Which other metal is in this list?

a) chlorine
b) nickel
c) carbon
d) oxygen

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b) nickel

2. Where is cobalt mostly found in nature?

a) in the air we breathe
b) in sea water
c) in the leaves of plants
d) in rocks dug from the ground

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d) in rocks dug from the ground

Associated Words

More Class 4 Summer Spell Bee words starting with co: conclude, complaint, colleague, conflict, conversation, complete

More words from this list

discus, fragile, introduce, narrator, qualifier, solitary, underpass, amphibian

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