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Spell Bee Word: Corn


What does corn mean?

Word: Corn

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Corn means a tall plant whose seeds we eat roasted, boiled or popped. In British English the seeds eaten as a vegetable are called sweetcorn.

How do you spell corn?

Syllables: corn

Tricky part: Corn has no e at the end, even though words like cone and core have one. Some children write corne.

Watch out for: corne, coren

Memory tip: Popcorn starts with pop and ends with corn. If you can spell popcorn, you can spell corn.

Corn in a sentence

Example 1: We ate roasted corn by the sea in Mumbai.

Example 2: Corn grows tall in the fields near our village.

Example 3: Nanu put lemon and salt on my corn.

Fun Fact

Popcorn pops because a drop of water inside each seed turns into steam and bursts the seed open.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) carrot
b) coarn
c) potato
d) pumpkin

Show answer

b) coarn. Corn has only one vowel, o; there is no a in it.

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word:

corn

a) peas
b) beans
c) okra
d) maize

Show answer

d) maize. Maize is another name for corn; peas, beans and okra are other vegetables.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

We bought hot korn at the fair.

a) hot
b) fair
c) korn
d) bought

Show answer

c) korn. Corn begins with c, as cob does.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

nocr

a) conr
b) corn
c) crno
d) cron

Show answer

b) corn. Put or in the middle, with c in front and n at the end.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do we call the long part that corn seeds grow on?

a) a bunch
b) a pod
c) a cob
d) a stalk

Show answer

c) a cob

2. Fresh corn seeds are usually ____.

a) blue
b) red
c) yellow
d) purple

Show answer

c) yellow

Associated Words

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More words from this list

fast, hanger, metro, potato, silly, toffee, album, branch

Next steps

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