Spell Bee Word: Saffron

What does saffron mean?

Word: Saffron

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Saffron means a costly yellow-orange spice made from the dried threads of a crocus flower; also the deep orange-yellow colour.

How do you spell saffron?

Syllables: saf - fron

Tricky part: The f is doubled in the middle, a letter students often write only once.

Watch out for: safron, saffran, saphron

Memory tip: Saffron threads are fine and fragile: one f for fine, one f for fragile.

Saffron in a sentence

Example 1: Grandma adds a few strands of saffron to the rice pudding.

Example 2: The dancers wore scarves of saffron and walked in a line.

Example 3: Saffron is so costly that shops sell it in tiny boxes of just one gram.

Fun Fact

It takes the threads of well over a hundred thousand crocus flowers to make one kilogram of saffron, which is why it costs so much.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) saffron
b) corriander
c) turmerick
d) cinamon

Word Cookie

Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:

s_ffr_n

a) u, o
b) e, o
c) a, o
d) o, o

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

nfaorsf

a) affront
b) saffron
c) sarong
d) fashion

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Cooks add saffron to food to give it ____.

a) sourness and salt
b) colour and flavour
c) heat and spice
d) crunch and texture

2. Most of the world's saffron is grown in ____.

a) Iran
b) Norway
c) Canada
d) Iceland