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Spell Bee Word: Dough


What does dough mean?

Word: Dough

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Dough means a thick, soft mixture of flour and water, sometimes with salt or yeast, that you knead to make bread, buns or biscuits.

Sounds like: doe (a female deer)

How do you spell dough?

Syllables: dough

Tricky part: The g and h at the end are both silent, so children often leave one of them out.

Watch out for: douh, doughe

Memory tip: In dough, the g and h sit at the end without making a sound, just as they do in high.

Dough in a sentence

Example 1: Mum kneads the dough for bread every morning.

Example 2: My little brother made a dough snake on the kitchen table.

Example 3: Cover the dough with a wet cloth so it does not dry out.

Fun Fact

Bread dough rises because tiny living things called yeast give off a gas that makes bubbles inside it.

Practise the CREST Way

Sound Check

Which word does not rhyme with 'dough'?

a) cow
b) toe
c) slow
d) sew

Show answer

a) cow. Cow has the ow sound of now, even though it is spelt like slow.

Word Fusion

Add the correct option to the following to make a new word:

dough______

a) knut
b) nutt
c) nut
d) nat

Show answer

c) nut. A doughnut is a ring or ball of sweet fried dough, and nut is spelt as usual.

Spellacadabra

Choose the correct option to make a meaningful word:

d__gh

a) ou
b) oa
c) o
d) ow

Show answer

a) ou. The oh sound in dough is written with o and u together.

Jumble Tumble

Choose the correct sequence of the jumbled letters to form a meaningful word:

ugdho 12345

a) 53124
b) 31524
c) 35124
d) 35142

Show answer

c) 35124. Read the letters in the order 3, 5, 1, 2, 4 and you get dough.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these is used to roll out dough for biscuits?

a) a rolling pin
b) a cheese grater
c) a tea strainer
d) a soup ladle

Show answer

a) a rolling pin

2. Which of these is made from dough?

a) a milkshake
b) a pizza base
c) an omelette
d) a salad

Show answer

b) a pizza base

Associated Words

More Class 3 Winter Spell Bee words starting with do: dozen, doorman, doze, doorknob, dollar

More words from this list

grant, landing, pedal, slim, swimsuit, whiny, bleach, commuter

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