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Spell Bee Word: Icing


What does icing mean?

Word: Icing

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Icing means a sweet, smooth topping that is spread over cakes and biscuits.

How do you spell icing?

Syllables: i - cing

Tricky part: No e comes before the ing, even though the word is made from a cold word that ends in e. Iceing is the usual mistake.

Watch out for: iceing, icin

Memory tip: When ing joins a word that ends in a silent e, the e steps out to make room, just as bake becomes baking.

Icing in a sentence

Example 1: The cake had blue icing and tiny stars.

Example 2: I licked the icing off my cupcake first.

Example 3: Mum wrote my name on the cake in white icing.

Fun Fact

In American English, the soft kind of icing is often called frosting. In British English the word is icing.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) ising
b) iscing
c) iccing
d) icing

Show answer

d) icing. The middle sound is spelt with a single c: not s, sc or cc.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

icinng

a) g
b) i
c) c
d) n

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d) n. Icing has only one n, just before the g.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

cgini

a) iicng
b) icing
c) icign
d) icngi

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b) icing. The word ends in ing; put the other two letters in front.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

My sister spread choclate icing on the cake.

a) sister
b) spread
c) choclate
d) cake

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c) choclate. Chocolate has an o after the second c: c-h-o-c-o-l-a-t-e.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Icing is made mostly from ____.

a) flour
b) rice
c) sugar
d) salt

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c) sugar

2. Which tool would a baker use to spread icing?

a) a flat knife
b) a grater
c) a rolling pin
d) a soup ladle

Show answer

a) a flat knife

Associated Words

Words that end in -ing: string, caring, building, camping, evening, greeting

More words from this list

mention, prefer, tortoise, address, burst, decide, fur, market

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