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Spell Bee Word: Radish


What does radish mean?

Word: Radish

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Radish means a crunchy root vegetable, white or red, with a sharp taste. In Hindi it is called mooli.

How do you spell radish?

Syllables: rad - ish

Tricky part: The first vowel is a, even though some people say red-ish.

Watch out for: redish, raadish

Memory tip: A radish can be red, but it starts with ra, like rabbit. Picture a rabbit nibbling a radish.

Radish in a sentence

Example 1: Nani made mooli parathas from fresh radish.

Example 2: The radish in the salad tasted sharp.

Example 3: We pulled a long white radish out of the soil.

Fun Fact

Radishes grow very fast; some kinds are ready to pull up about a month after the seeds are sown.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) cauliflour
b) spinnach
c) radish
d) capsicam

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c) radish. Spinnach has one n too many, capsicam has the wrong vowel near its end, and cauliflour should end in flower.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

raddish

a) d
b) s
c) h
d) r

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a) d. Radish needs just one d.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

The farmer piled every red radesh neatly on his cart at the market.

a) farmer
b) neatly
c) market
d) radesh

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d) radesh. Radish finishes like fish.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

dhsiar

a) raidsh
b) radsih
c) radihs
d) radish

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d) radish. Start with the ra of rabbit and sound out the rest.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Radish is a root vegetable. Which other vegetable is a root?

a) carrot
b) cauliflower
c) spinach
d) cabbage

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a) carrot

2. The green part of a radish that grows above the soil is its ____.

a) roots
b) skin
c) core
d) leaves

Show answer

d) leaves

Associated Words

Words that end in -ish: nourish, rubbish, astonish, childish, selfish, starfish

More words from this list

spend, whimper, bedrock, cling, discard, fountain, interesting, motivation

Next steps

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