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Spell Bee Word: Pretzel

Pretzel (noun): a crisp or soft baked snack, usually salted, made from dough twisted into a loose knot.

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What does pretzel mean?

Word: Pretzel

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Pretzel means a crisp or soft baked snack, usually salted, made from dough twisted into a loose knot.

Word origin: Comes from German Brezel, which goes back to Latin bracchium, arm.

How do you spell pretzel?

Syllables: pret - zel

Tricky part: The ending is el, not le, which trips up students who know bottle and little. The t is easy to lose when you say the word quickly.

Watch out for: pretzle, prezel, pretsel

Memory tip: Pretzel finishes like camel and label, with el, not like bottle and little with le.

Pretzel in a sentence

Example 1: At the market, Aarav bought a warm pretzel sprinkled with salt.

Example 2: My aunt brought a packet of small, hard pretzels back from Germany.

Example 3: The baker rolled the dough into a long rope and twisted it into a pretzel.

Fun Fact

For hundreds of years bakers' guilds in southern Germany have used the pretzel as their emblem, and many German bakeries still hang a pretzel sign above the door.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) biskit
b) muffen
c) croisant
d) pretzel

Show answer

d) pretzel. Only pretzel is right; the others should read croissant, biscuit and muffin.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

tlezper

a) pelter
b) pestle
c) pretzel
d) petrel

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c) pretzel. No other option has a z, and pretzel also uses all seven letters.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

pretzzel

a) t
b) l
c) e
d) z

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d) z. There is only one z in pretzel, right after the t.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What shape is a traditional pretzel?

a) a loose twisted knot
b) a flat round disc
c) a hollow puffed ball
d) a thick plaited loaf

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a) a loose twisted knot

2. Which of these snacks, like a pretzel, is made from baked dough?

a) popcorn
b) jelly
c) toffee
d) cracker

Show answer

d) cracker

Associated Words

Words that start with pre: preservation, preliminary, precipitation, prejudice, preferable, prerequisite

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