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Spell Bee Word: Pastry


What does pastry mean?

Word: Pastry

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Pastry means a small baked food, often sweet, made from a dough of flour, fat and water. The dough itself is also called pastry.

How do you spell pastry?

Syllables: pas - try

Tricky part: The start sounds like pay, so children try ai or ay. Only a plain a is written.

Watch out for: paistry, paystry

Memory tip: A pastry starts as a paste of flour and water, so it keeps the plain a of paste.

Pastry in a sentence

Example 1: We shared a cream pastry after the match.

Example 2: Dadi pressed the pastry into a round tin.

Example 3: The shop near my school sells chocolate pastries.

Fun Fact

Puff pastry rises in the oven into many thin, crisp layers because butter is folded between sheets of dough.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

pastery

a) a
b) t
c) e
d) r

Show answer

c) e. No vowel comes between the t and the r; an e there adds a beat the word does not have.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Meena ate a mango pastri at the school fair.

a) pastri
b) mango
c) ate
d) school

Show answer

a) pastri. The word finishes with y, as in country.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

sypatr

a) pastyr
b) pasrty
c) pastry
d) patsry

Show answer

c) pastry. Say them aloud: just one is the name of a baked food.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) pudding
b) biscit
c) sandwich
d) pastry

Show answer

b) biscit. Biscuit hides a quiet u before the i.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where would you go to buy a fresh pastry?

a) a library
b) a garage
c) a bank
d) a bakery

Show answer

d) a bakery

2. Which of these is usually made with pastry?

a) a glass of milk
b) an apple pie
c) a boiled egg
d) a bowl of rice

Show answer

b) an apple pie

Associated Words

Words that start with pas: pasta, passport, password, passage

More words from this list

science, stream, wing, below, comma, eyebrow, happy, leopard

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