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Spell Bee Word: Cook


What does cook mean?

Word: Cook

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Cook means a person who makes food ready to eat. Cook is also a verb: to make food by heating it.

How do you spell cook?

Syllables: cook

Tricky part: The short oo sound in cook is spelt with two o's, as in book and look. Children who say it quickly sometimes write cuk or couk.

Watch out for: cuk, couk

Memory tip: Look at the two o's in cook: they are two pots on the stove.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. too many cooks spoil the broth: When too many people work on one job, it gets spoilt. Example: "Everyone wanted to paint the poster, and too many cooks spoilt the broth."

Cook in a sentence

Example 1: The cook at our school makes tasty khichdi.

Example 2: My grandmother is the best cook in the family.

Example 3: The cook wore a white apron.

Fun Fact

Cookie does not come from cook. It comes from a Dutch word, koekje, which means a little cake. In British English a cookie is usually called a biscuit.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word:

cook

a) chef
b) tailor
c) driver
d) waiter

Show answer

a) chef. A chef is a cook who makes food in a hotel or restaurant.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) plumber
b) teacher
c) farmer
d) cooc

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d) cooc. Cook ends with a k, so a c at the end is wrong.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

koco

a) cook
b) kooc
c) ckoo
d) kcoo

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a) cook. Only one of these can be read as a real word, and it is the person in the kitchen.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

The cook made eggs and toast for brekfast.

a) eggs
b) brekfast
c) cook
d) toast

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b) brekfast. Breakfast keeps the ea of break, so it needs an a after the e.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does a cook mostly work?

a) on a farm
b) in a garage
c) in a classroom
d) in a kitchen

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d) in a kitchen

2. What does a cook use most?

a) a spanner
b) a sewing needle
c) a frying pan
d) a paintbrush

Show answer

c) a frying pan

Associated Words

More Class 1 Summer Spell Bee words starting with co: coffee, coat, coconut, continue, couch, confirm

More words from this list

farm, hammer, meerkat, porcupine, shorts, tiny, aircraft, bowl

Next steps

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