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Spell Bee Word: Muffin


What does muffin mean?

Word: Muffin

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Muffin means a small, soft cake shaped like a cup, often with fruit or chocolate bits inside.

How do you spell muffin?

Syllables: muf - fin

Tricky part: Muffin has two f's in the middle. Children often write only one f.

Watch out for: mufin, mufine

Memory tip: Picture two f's standing tall in the middle of the word, like two candles on top of a muffin.

Muffin in a sentence

Example 1: Dadi gave me a banana muffin after school.

Example 2: The muffins rose high in the oven.

Example 3: Arjun shared his chocolate muffin with Sara.

Fun Fact

In Britain, muffin can also mean a flat, round bread roll that is toasted and eaten with butter. Americans call that an English muffin.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) butter
b) biskit
c) muffin
d) cherry

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b) biskit. Biscuit is spelt with cuit at the end, not kit.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

m_ffin

a) o
b) e
c) a
d) u

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d) u. The short vowel sound here is the one in sun and cup.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Mama baked a warm muffen for my lunch box.

a) muffen
b) lunch
c) warm
d) baked

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a) muffen. The last part of the cake's name is spelt in, as in pin, not en.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

fnimuf

a) muffni
b) mfufin
c) muffin
d) mufinf

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c) muffin. Say the name of the small soft cake: only one choice spells it.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where would you most likely buy a muffin?

a) at a bakery
b) at a shoe shop
c) at a petrol pump
d) at a post office

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a) at a bakery

2. Which two things does a baker need to make muffins?

a) flour and sugar
b) salt and chillies
c) tea leaves and milk
d) rice and dal

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a) flour and sugar

Associated Words

More Class 1 Summer Spell Bee words starting with m: marigold, merry, metro, mixture, mango, mouse

More words from this list

quiet, slow, true, April, bucket, cross, fight, hobby

Next steps

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