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Spell Bee Word: Meatball

Meatball (noun): a small ball of minced meat, cooked and often served with sauce, gravy or noodles.

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What does meatball mean?

Word: Meatball

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Meatball means a small ball of minced meat, cooked and often served with sauce, gravy or noodles.

How do you spell meatball?

Syllables: meat - ball

Tricky part: It sounds like meet, but the first part is the food you eat, so it is spelt with ea, not ee.

Watch out for: meetball, mietball

Memory tip: Meet a friend has ee, but the meat that you eat has ea. A meatball is food, so pick the ea of eat.

Meatball in a sentence

Example 1: Papa made meatballs in tomato sauce for dinner.

Example 2: There were five meatballs in my bowl of soup.

Example 3: One meatball rolled off my plate and under the table.

Fun Fact

Sweden is famous for its meatballs, which are often served with mashed potatoes and a sweet red berry jam.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) sandwich
b) noodles
c) meatboll
d) biscuit

Show answer

c) meatboll. The vowel in the second part is a, as in hat.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

lltebama

a) meabtall
b) meatball
c) meatlbal
d) meatblal

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b) meatball. Two words you already know are hiding here; join them with no space.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

My uncle ate a spicy meatbal with his noodles.

a) spicy
b) noodles
c) uncle
d) meatbal

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d) meatbal. A double l comes at the very end.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Meatballs are NOT usually served with ____.

a) spaghetti
b) bread
c) rice
d) custard

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d) custard

2. What shape is a meatball?

a) square
b) round
c) flat
d) long and thin

Show answer

b) round

Associated Words

Words that end in -tball: football, basketball, softball

More words from this list

poke, short, through, ache, bulky, cycle, hope, manner

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