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Spell Bee Word: cornmeal


Basic Details

Word: Cornmeal

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Flour made by grinding dried maize (corn). It is usually yellow and a little gritty.

Synonyms: maize flour

How to Spell Cornmeal

Syllables: corn - meal

Tricky part: It is two words joined, corn and meal, so the n and m both stay. The second part is meal, with ea.

Watch out for: cornmeel, cormeal, cornmial

Memory tip: Grind corn into a coarse meal and you have cornmeal: glue the two words together and lose nothing.

Usage Examples

Example 1: Makki ki roti is made from a kind of cornmeal.

Example 2: The baker sprinkled cornmeal on the tray so the bread would not stick.

Example 3: We bought a packet of yellow cornmeal for the recipe.

Fun Fact

In India and Britain, cornflour usually means a fine white starch used to thicken soups, which is not the same as cornmeal.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Makeup

Choose the correctly spelt compound word:

a) cornmeal
b) oatmeel
c) butermilk
d) cornflaks

Show answer

a) cornmeal. Oatmeal ends in meal, cornflakes needs its e, and buttermilk has a double t.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

malnecor

a) carnival
b) commoner
c) cornfield
d) cornmeal

Show answer

d) cornmeal. The letters give corn plus meal, with no i, v or second o.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Nani dusted the rolling board with cornmeel before patting out the dough.

a) cornmeel
b) patting
c) dusted
d) dough

Show answer

a) cornmeel. The second half is meal, the word for ground grain.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Cornmeal is made from ____.

a) potatoes
b) rice
c) dried maize
d) wheat bran

Show answer

c) dried maize

2. Which of these could you cook with cornmeal?

a) a glass of milk
b) a boiled egg
c) a flatbread
d) a fruit salad

Show answer

c) a flatbread

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