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Spell Bee Word: Pepper


What does pepper mean?

Word: Pepper

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Pepper means a hot-tasting spice made from small dried berries that are ground into powder. Pepper is also the name of a crunchy vegetable, like the green capsicum.

How do you spell pepper?

Syllables: pep - per

Tricky part: Pepper has three p's, and children often drop one of them and write peper.

Watch out for: peper, pepar

Memory tip: Pepper makes you sneeze: p, p, p! Count three p's as you write the word.

Pepper in a sentence

Example 1: Mummy ground fresh pepper over my soup.

Example 2: Too much pepper made Oscar sneeze.

Example 3: Kerala is famous for growing pepper.

Fun Fact

Black pepper grows on a climbing vine, and traders carried it from India's Malabar coast to faraway lands more than two thousand years ago.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) peppur
b) peppar
c) pepper
d) peppor

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c) pepper. The last sound is written er, as in sister and water.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

p_pper

a) e
b) a
c) i
d) u

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a) e. The first part sounds like pep, so the vowel is e.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

ppeerp

a) peppre
b) ppeper
c) pepepr
d) pepper

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d) pepper. Say it slowly, pep-per: only one choice can be read that way.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these is a spice, like pepper?

a) turmeric
b) butter
c) sugar
d) honey

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a) turmeric

2. Which of these do people often sprinkle pepper on?

a) an ice cream
b) a milkshake
c) a fried egg
d) a fruit jelly

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c) a fried egg

Associated Words

Words that end in -per: grasshopper, skyscraper, jumper, newspaper, slipper, whimper

More words from this list

secure, sunshine, wooden, blunt, cottage, fence, hazel, paw

Next steps

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