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Spell Bee Word: Oatmeal


What does oatmeal mean?

Word: Oatmeal

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Oatmeal means oats that have been crushed into a rough flour, used in baking and cooking. In American English it also means the hot breakfast dish that British English calls porridge.

How do you spell oatmeal?

Syllables: oat - meal

Tricky part: Oat is spelt oa, though children often write ot or ote.

Watch out for: otmeal, otemeal

Memory tip: Say oh, then a, as you pour the oats into the bowl: o-a is how oat begins.

Oatmeal in a sentence

Example 1: Amma mixes oatmeal with honey to make crunchy biscuits.

Example 2: The baker rolled the loaf in oatmeal before baking it.

Example 3: Grandpa stirs a spoonful of oatmeal into his soup to thicken it.

Fun Fact

Scottish oatcakes, thin crisp biscuits, are traditionally made from oatmeal, because oats grow well in Scotland's cool, damp weather.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) oatmeal
b) cereel
c) brekfast
d) biskit

Show answer

a) oatmeal. Breakfast, cereal and biscuit each have a slip, so oatmeal is right.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Our cook added a cup of oatmeel to the cake mixture.

a) cook
b) added
c) oatmeel
d) mixture

Show answer

c) oatmeel. Meal is spelt with ea, as in eat.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

maoteal

a) toameal
b) oamteal
c) moateal
d) oatmeal

Show answer

d) oatmeal. Oamteal, toameal and moateal each put the t or the m in the wrong place.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

oattmeal

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

Show answer

d) t. Oat has a single t, so oatmeal has only one t.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Like oatmeal, one of these is made from oats. Which one?

a) cornflakes
b) semolina
c) sago
d) muesli

Show answer

d) muesli

2. Oatmeal is a little like flour because both are made by ____.

a) boiling milk
b) drying fruit
c) churning butter
d) grinding grains

Show answer

d) grinding grains

Associated Words

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