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Spell Bee Word: Potato


What does potato mean?

Word: Potato

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Potato means a round vegetable with brown skin that grows under the ground. In Hindi it is called aloo.

How do you spell potato?

Syllables: po - ta - to

Tricky part: There is no e at the end of potato. The e only comes in when there is more than one: potatoes.

Watch out for: potatoe, potatow

Memory tip: A potato has no tail: no e after the last o. Only potatoes, more than one, grow an e.

Potato in a sentence

Example 1: Mum made potato curry for lunch.

Example 2: We dug up potatoes in Nanaji's field.

Example 3: A potato fell out of the bag and rolled away.

Fun Fact

Potatoes first grew in South America. Traders brought them to India about 400 years ago.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) pottato
b) potato
c) patato
d) potaito

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b) potato. Po-ta-to: one t in each of the last two beats, and a plain o in each.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

otpaot

a) ptaoto
b) potoat
c) potaot
d) potato

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d) potato. Find the beat po, then use the other four letters.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

pota_o

a) t
b) d
c) r
d) l

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a) t. Say the last beat slowly: the sound before the o is a t.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these is made from potatoes?

a) chips
b) jam
c) cheese
d) butter

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a) chips

2. Potatoes grow under the ground. Which of these grows under the ground too?

a) a banana
b) a carrot
c) a mango
d) a guava

Show answer

b) a carrot

Associated Words

More Class 1 Summer Spell Bee words starting with po: policeman, poet, pocket, pond, porcupine, poem

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silly, toffee, album, branch, coo, family, hair, marry

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