Spell Bee Word: Grain

What does grain mean?

Word: Grain

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Grain means one of the small, hard bits that rice, wheat and similar plants produce, which we cook or grind into flour. Grain also means a tiny bit of something, like a grain of sand.

How do you spell grain?

Syllables: grain

Tricky part: The long a sound is written with two vowels side by side, a and then i.

Watch out for: grane, grian

Memory tip: In grain, the a goes first and the i follows, just as A comes before I in the alphabet.

Idioms and Phrases

1. go against the grain: To be different from what you would normally like or do. Example: "Getting up at five went against the grain for Kunal, but he did it for the match."

Grain in a sentence

Example 1: The hen pecked at every grain of rice on the floor.

Example 2: There was a grain of sand stuck in my shoe.

Example 3: Farmers store their grain in big sacks after the harvest.

Fun Fact

Grain comes from the Latin word granum. The same Latin word gave us granary, a building where grain is stored.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) wheat
b) bread
c) flour
d) graine

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word:

grain

a) seed
b) root
c) stem
d) leaf

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

g_ain

a) r
b) h
c) w
d) l

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

The little ant carried a grain of suger.

a) ant
b) suger
c) grain
d) carried

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Name a grain that grows in wet paddy fields.

a) rice
b) mango
c) onion
d) potato

2. Grain is ground into flour at a ____.

a) mill
b) mine
c) mint
d) dairy