Spell Bee Word: Fruit

What does fruit mean?

Word: Fruit

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Fruit means the part of a plant that holds its seeds. Many fruits, like mangoes, apples and bananas, are sweet and good to eat.

How do you spell fruit?

Syllables: fruit

Tricky part: The 'oo' sound is spelt ui, so children often write frute or frewt.

Watch out for: frute, fruet, frewt

Memory tip: U and I eat fruit together. The letters u and i sit side by side in the middle: fr-U-I-t.

Idioms and Phrases

1. bear fruit: To give good results after hard work. Example: "Meera's daily practice bore fruit when she won the quiz."

Fruit in a sentence

Example 1: Guava is my favourite fruit.

Example 2: Nani cut some fruit for our evening snack.

Example 3: The mango tree is full of fruit this summer.

Fun Fact

Fruit came into English through French from the Latin word fructus, which meant enjoyment or the crops a farm produces.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) pineaple
b) fruit
c) papaia
d) gauva

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Mohan bought fresh fruite from the market on Sunday.

a) market
b) fruite
c) fresh
d) bought

Word Makeup

Choose the suffix that completes the word:

fruit

a) fel
b) fool
c) full
d) ful

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these is really a fruit, because it holds seeds?

a) a potato
b) an onion
c) a tomato
d) a carrot

2. Which fruit is the national fruit of India?

a) banana
b) mango
c) guava
d) jackfruit