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Spell Bee Word: Cupcake


What does cupcake mean?

Word: Cupcake

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Cupcake means a small cake baked in a paper case, often with icing on top.

How do you spell cupcake?

Syllables: cup - cake

Tricky part: Cupcake has three k sounds but only one letter k. The other two are c's, at the start of cup and of cake. Children often write cupkake.

Watch out for: cupkake, cupkaek, cupcayk

Memory tip: Count the c's: one starts cup and one starts cake. Two halves, two c's, and the only k waits near the end.

Cupcake in a sentence

Example 1: Mum baked chocolate cupcakes for my birthday.

Example 2: Each cupcake had a cherry on top.

Example 3: I shared my cupcake with Ben at lunch.

Fun Fact

In Britain, a small plain cupcake is often called a fairy cake.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) cubcake
b) cupcake
c) cupcak
d) cuppcake

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b) cupcake. Cupcake ends with an e and has a single p.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

cupcaake

a) a
b) k
c) p
d) c

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a) a. The a in cake sits alone between the c and the k.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

kepacuc

a) cupcaek
b) cpucake
c) cupckae
d) cupcake

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d) cupcake. Make cup with three of the letters; the other four spell cake.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Cupcakes and ____ are both baked in an oven.

a) salads
b) ice lollies
c) milkshakes
d) buns

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d) buns

2. Which is the best place to buy a cupcake?

a) a bakery
b) a chemist
c) a post office
d) a bookshop

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a) a bakery

Associated Words

Words that end in -ake: pancake, awake, snake, snowflake, shake, earthquake

More words from this list

forehead, hill, magpie, pillowcase, separate, syrup, worksheet, bottle

Next steps

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