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Spell Bee Word: Cotton


What does cotton mean?

Word: Cotton

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Cotton means a light cloth made from the white fibres of a plant; also the soft fibres themselves.

How do you spell cotton?

Syllables: cot - ton

Tricky part: Cotton has a double t in the middle. Children hear only one t and write coton.

Watch out for: coton, cotonn

Memory tip: Think of the two t's as two threads of cotton lying side by side.

Cotton in a sentence

Example 1: My school uniform is made of cotton.

Example 2: The nurse put cotton on my cut knee.

Example 3: The farmers picked cotton in the fields.

Fun Fact

India is one of the biggest growers of cotton in the world. Gujarat and Maharashtra grow a lot of it.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) kotton
b) jacket
c) pillow
d) sweater

Show answer

a) kotton. Cotton begins with c, as cup does.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

otcnot

a) cototn
b) cottno
c) cotton
d) ctoton

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c) cotton. Put the c first; only one choice spells the soft cloth.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Nani bought a soft cotten saree.

a) bought
b) cotten
c) soft
d) saree

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b) cotten. The last part of cotton is ton, with an o.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

c_tton

a) a
b) e
c) u
d) o

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d) o. The first part of cotton is cot, the little bed for a baby.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Cotton clothes are best to wear when the weather is ____.

a) snowing hard
b) freezing cold
c) very windy
d) hot and sunny

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d) hot and sunny

2. What is often made from cotton?

a) a steel plate
b) a plastic bucket
c) a T-shirt
d) a glass bottle

Show answer

c) a T-shirt

Associated Words

More Class 1 Summer Spell Bee words starting with co: cook, country, corn, coffee, coconut, continue

More words from this list

favourite, hardly, milk, power, singer, tomorrow, allow, brass

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