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Spell Bee Word: Pomegranate


What does pomegranate mean?

Word: Pomegranate

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Pomegranate means a round red fruit with a hard skin. Inside are lots of juicy red seeds that you can eat.

How do you spell pomegranate?

Syllables: pom - e - gran - ate

Tricky part: The ending is ate, not ite or et. Children often write pomegranit.

Watch out for: pomegranit, pomegranet, pomegrenate

Memory tip: Think of the end of the word as a little story: Gran ate a pomegranate.

Pomegranate in a sentence

Example 1: Grandma peeled a pomegranate and gave us the red seeds.

Example 2: Pomegranate juice is dark red.

Example 3: A pomegranate has a little crown on top.

Fun Fact

A single pomegranate can hold several hundred seeds.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) pomigranate
b) pomgranate
c) pomagranate
d) pomegranate

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d) pomegranate. The first part is pome, with an e straight after the m.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

pommegranate

a) o
b) e
c) g
d) m

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d) m. Pomegranate has a single m near the start.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

anpetormage

a) pmoegranate
b) poemgranate
c) pomegranate
d) opmegranate

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c) pomegranate. The last seven letters spell granate; only the first four letters need sorting.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

The pomegranate we bought was sweet and delicous.

a) bought
b) sweet
c) delicous
d) pomegranate

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c) delicous. Delicious ends in cious, with an i before the ous.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What must you do before you can eat the seeds of a pomegranate?

a) dry it in the sun
b) break open the skin
c) boil it in water
d) freeze it overnight

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b) break open the skin

2. Pick another fruit that is full of small seeds.

a) a guava
b) a plum
c) a cherry
d) a mango

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a) a guava

Associated Words

Words that end in -nate: fortunate, germinate, unfortunate, eliminate

More words from this list

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Next steps

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