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Spell Bee Word: Pumpkin


What does pumpkin mean?

Word: Pumpkin

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Pumpkin means a big, round vegetable, usually orange, with a hard skin. In Hindi it is kaddu.

How do you spell pumpkin?

Syllables: pump - kin

Tricky part: We often swallow the second p when we speak, so it is easy to leave it out.

Watch out for: pumkin, punkin

Memory tip: Pump up a ball before you add the rest: the p at the end of pump stays.

Pumpkin in a sentence

Example 1: Mum cooked sweet and sour pumpkin with puris.

Example 2: The pumpkin was too heavy for me to lift.

Example 3: A big yellow pumpkin grew on the vine near the wall.

Fun Fact

Pumpkins grow on long vines along the ground, and they belong to the same plant family as cucumbers and melons.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) pumpkin
b) pumpkon
c) pumpkine
d) pumpken

Show answer

a) pumpkin. The word stops after the in, with no e at the end.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

pump_in

a) l
b) k
c) t
d) c

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b) k. Here the hard sound is a k, as in kite.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

kumppin

a) pumpkni
b) pumpikn
c) pumpkin
d) pumpnik

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c) pumpkin. All four choices begin with pump, so the answer is the one whose ending is right.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Mum made soup from a big pampkin.

a) made
b) pampkin
c) big
d) soup

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b) pampkin. Pumpkin starts with the same sounds as the word pump.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mum cuts open a pumpkin. What will she find inside?

a) lots of flat seeds
b) a tiny brown nut
c) one big hard stone
d) some sweet white milk

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a) lots of flat seeds

2. On which festival do children in many countries carve faces into pumpkins?

a) Diwali
b) Halloween
c) Holi
d) Christmas

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b) Halloween

Associated Words

More Class 2 Summer Spell Bee words starting with p: playful, place, pepper, pomegranate, packet, page

More words from this list

slight, tram, agent, calf, difficult, garland, ill, midnight

Next steps

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