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Spell Bee Word: Millet


What does millet mean?

Word: Millet

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Millet means a small round grain grown for food, especially in hot places.

How do you spell millet?

Syllables: mil - let

Tricky part: The second beat sounds like lit in quick speech, so students write millit.

Watch out for: millit, millat

Memory tip: Birds treat a millet field like a market, and the second beat of both words has the same vowel.

Millet in a sentence

Example 1: Ragi and bajra are both kinds of millet grown in India.

Example 2: Grandmother stirs millet flour into a warm porridge on cold mornings.

Example 3: Small birds came down to peck at the millet on the tray.

Fun Fact

The United Nations named 2023 the International Year of Millets, after a proposal from India.

Practise the CREST Way

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

tlmeli

a) muffin
b) mentor
c) millet
d) mingle

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c) millet. None of the other three can be made, because the jumble has no n.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:

m_l_et

a) o, l
b) i, l
c) i, t
d) e, l

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b) i, l. The vowel is a short i, and the same consonant comes twice straight after it.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

millett

a) t
b) e
c) m
d) l

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a) t. A single t closes the name of this grain.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) sorgum
b) mustard
c) barley
d) millet

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a) sorgum. Sorghum has a silent h after the g.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do farmers in dry parts of Rajasthan like this crop?

a) It needs flooded fields all year
b) It must be grown under glass
c) It ripens only under the snow
d) It grows with very little rain

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d) It grows with very little rain

2. Which food could be made from millet flour?

a) a glass of milk
b) a slice of cheese
c) a boiled egg
d) a flat roti

Show answer

d) a flat roti

Associated Words

Words that end in -let: droplet, pamphlet, tablet, couplet, chalet, ultraviolet

More words from this list

prosperous, spokesperson, adjacent, blissful, compulsive, departure, express, illustration

Next steps

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