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Spell Bee Word: Garlic


What does garlic mean?

Word: Garlic

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Garlic means a plant with a strong smell and taste, used in cooking. Its bulb is made of small pieces called cloves.

How do you spell garlic?

Syllables: gar - lic

Tricky part: The word ends with a plain c, with no k after it, even though the end sounds like k.

Watch out for: garlek, gaarlic, garlac

Memory tip: Garlic is cut into little cloves. Let the c of cloves remind you that garlic ends in c.

Garlic in a sentence

Example 1: Mumma fried garlic and onions before adding the dal.

Example 2: The garlic bread at Riya's party smelt wonderful.

Example 3: I helped Nani peel ten cloves of garlic for the chutney.

Fun Fact

The word garlic comes from Old English garleac. Gar meant spear and leac meant leek, so garlic was once the spear leek.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) gurlic
b) gerlic
c) garlic
d) garlec

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c) garlic. Garlic has an a in its first part and an i in its second.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

clirag

a) garlic
b) gralic
c) galric
d) garilc

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a) garlic. Only one order of these six letters spells the kitchen plant.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

The pickle jar smelt of garrlic.

a) smelt
b) pickle
c) garrlic
d) jar

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c) garrlic. Garlic has only one r.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

gar_ic

a) t
b) n
c) l
d) d

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c) l. After gar comes an l, as in lemon.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does garlic grow?

a) on climbing vines
b) under the ground
c) on tall trees
d) on thorny bushes

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b) under the ground

2. Garlic is a close cousin of which vegetable?

a) carrot
b) cabbage
c) potato
d) onion

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d) onion

Associated Words

Words that start with gar: garage, garment, garland, gardener

More words from this list

lake, paper, sand, swan, write, beautiful, cheer, door

Next steps

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