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Spell Bee Word: Custard


What does custard mean?

Word: Custard

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Custard means a sweet, thick, yellow sauce or pudding made with milk and sugar, and eggs or custard powder.

How do you spell custard?

Syllables: cus - tard

Tricky part: The end is ard, though it sounds like erd. Children write custerd or custird.

Watch out for: custerd, custird, kustard

Memory tip: Custard is soft, but its ending is hard: a-r-d, just like the word hard.

Custard in a sentence

Example 1: Grandma made fruit custard with bananas and grapes.

Example 2: We had warm custard after dinner.

Example 3: The custard set firmly in the fridge.

Fun Fact

Custard powder was invented in England in 1837 by a chemist named Alfred Bird, because his wife could not eat eggs.

Practise the CREST Way

Jumble Tumble

Which option has letters that you can rearrange to form the name of a sweet dish?

a) lefmirt
b) udstacr
c) mulbrace
d) gnidupde

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b) udstacr. Udstacr makes custard; each of the others has one letter too many to make trifle, crumble or pudding.

Spellacadabra

Choose the correct option to make a meaningful word:

c__stard

a) u
b) a
c) ou
d) oo

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a) u. Custard starts with the same cu as cup.

Word Champ

Which of the words cannot be made using the letters in the given word?

custard

a) dust
b) card
c) star
d) trust

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d) trust. Trust needs two t's, and custard has only one.

Sound Check

Which of the following words rhymes with custard?

a) cupboard
b) blister
c) mustard
d) costume

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c) mustard. Mustard and custard differ only in their first sound.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is often served with custard?

a) pickle
b) gravy
c) crisps
d) jelly

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d) jelly

2. Which sweet dish is closest to custard?

a) chips
b) pizza
c) toast
d) rice pudding

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d) rice pudding

Associated Words

Words that end in -ard: postcard, orchard, standard, mudguard, whiteboard, headboard

More words from this list

fake, hibiscus, moan, reproduce, steering, tumbler, angel, chemist

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