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Spell Bee Word: Coconut


What does coconut mean?

Word: Coconut

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Coconut means a big, hard fruit with a hairy brown shell and soft white flesh inside.

How do you spell coconut?

Syllables: co - co - nut

Tricky part: The o in the middle is said softly, so children often write cocanut or cocunut. Coconut has three o's in all.

Watch out for: cocanut, cocunut

Memory tip: Count the o's as you write: coconut has three, and the soft middle one is the one people lose.

Coconut in a sentence

Example 1: Ammamma grated a coconut for the chutney.

Example 2: We bought tender coconuts from a cart in Goa.

Example 3: A coconut fell from the tree with a loud thud.

Fun Fact

The three dark spots at one end of a coconut look like a little face. The name comes from a Portuguese word, coco, for a grinning face.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) coconutt
b) coconut
c) cocconut
d) coconat

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b) coconut. Only coconut has a u in its last part and no letter doubled.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

ocnotuc

a) coconut
b) cocontu
c) coocnut
d) conocut

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a) coconut. Only one choice spells the big, hard fruit.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

coco_ut

a) l
b) n
c) m
d) r

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b) n. The last part is nut, so the gap needs an n.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Appa cut open a green koconut for us.

a) cut
b) open
c) koconut
d) green

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c) koconut. Coconut begins with c, the same letter as cup.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does a coconut grow?

a) on a palm tree
b) on a mango tree
c) on a long creeper
d) on a rose bush

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a) on a palm tree

2. What can you drink from a green coconut?

a) its husk
b) its water
c) its oil
d) its shell

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b) its water

Associated Words

More Class 1 Summer Spell Bee words starting with co: cold, corn, cook, cotton, continue, colt

More words from this list

exam, greedy, loud, playtime, shade, thirsty, actor, blind

Next steps

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