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Spell Bee Word: Sauce


What does sauce mean?

Word: Sauce

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Sauce means a thick liquid you eat with food to give it more taste, like tomato sauce.

How do you spell sauce?

Syllables: sauce

Tricky part: The aw sound in the middle is spelt with an a and a u, as in August. Children who spell by sound often write sos or soss.

Watch out for: sawce, soce

Memory tip: Sauce has the same au as August and autumn: hot pakoras with sauce on an August monsoon day.

Sauce in a sentence

Example 1: Can I have tomato sauce with my samosa?

Example 2: Mumma made a white sauce for the pasta.

Example 3: Do not spill the sauce on your shirt.

Fun Fact

Ketchup began in Asia as a fish sauce. Tomatoes were added to it much later.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) sauss
b) sauze
c) sause
d) sauce

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d) sauce. The s sound at the end is spelt ce, like rice.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Dip your pakora in the green sauc.

a) pakora
b) sauc
c) green
d) Dip

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b) sauc. Sauce needs an e after the c.

Word Chain

Complete the word sequence:

tomato, chop, cook, ____

a) milk
b) flour
c) bread
d) sauce

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d) sauce. Chop the tomatoes, cook them down slowly, and you end up with a thick sauce.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which one is NOT a sauce?

a) gravy
b) lassi
c) mayonnaise
d) ketchup

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b) lassi

2. At the table, sauce is usually poured from a ____.

a) bottle
b) plate
c) basket
d) sieve

Show answer

a) bottle

Associated Words

More Class 1 Summer Spell Bee words starting with sa: salt, safety, sailor, salad, sandwich, sandal

More words from this list

table, yawn, before, chief, drain, gas, lamp, parent

Next steps

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The CREST International Spell Bee (CSB) is conducted in two editions – CREST International Spell Bee - Summer (CSB) and CREST International Spell Bee - Winter (CSBW) – giving students across the globe an opportunity to showcase and enhance their spelling proficiency. Designed for young learners from Senior KG to Class 8, the competition focuses on word-building, pronunciation, and vocabulary enrichment, helping students develop strong linguistic skills.

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