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Spell Bee Word: Doughnut


What does doughnut mean?

Word: Doughnut

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Doughnut means a small, round, fried cake, often shaped like a ring with a hole in the middle.

How do you spell doughnut?

Syllables: dough - nut

Tricky part: The first part is dough, where ough says oh and the g and h make no sound. Children often write dohnut.

Watch out for: dohnut, doughnot, dougnut

Memory tip: It is made of dough, so start with dough. Then add nut.

Doughnut in a sentence

Example 1: Papa bought doughnuts with pink icing.

Example 2: The doughnut had a hole in the middle.

Example 3: I could only finish half a doughnut.

Fun Fact

In the United States the word is often written donut, but doughnut is the older spelling.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) pancake
b) doughnet
c) sandwich
d) biscuit

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b) doughnet. The vowel in the second part of doughnut is u.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

nuhogdut

a) doughtun
b) doughnut
c) doughutn
d) doughunt

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b) doughnut. Spell dough first, then put the last three letters in the order you hear them.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Nora shared a doughnutt with her brother.

a) with
b) shared
c) doughnutt
d) brother

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c) doughnutt. Doughnut ends with a single t.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Some doughnuts are filled with ____.

a) pickle
b) ketchup
c) chutney
d) jam

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d) jam

2. The dough for most doughnuts is made mainly from ____.

a) flour
b) potato
c) rice
d) lentils

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a) flour

Associated Words

More Class 2 Summer Spell Bee words starting with d: diagram, doormat, document, drizzle, design, drive

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goldfish, jackal, mountain, quilt, soon, truth, among, caring

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