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Spell Bee Word: Shortbread

Shortbread (noun): a rich, buttery Scottish biscuit made from butter, sugar and flour.


What does shortbread mean?

Word: Shortbread

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Shortbread means a rich, buttery Scottish biscuit made from butter, sugar and flour.

How do you spell shortbread?

Syllables: short - bread

Tricky part: Bread keeps its ea even though it sounds like bred.

Watch out for: shortbred, shortbraed, shortbreed

Memory tip: Think of a loaf of bread: the ea you see on the bakery sign stays, even though you hear bred.

Shortbread in a sentence

Example 1: Grandma bakes shortbread every winter and packs it in a red tin.

Example 2: The shortbread melted in my mouth with my evening tea.

Example 3: We cut the shortbread dough into star shapes.

Fun Fact

Shortbread is closely tied to Scotland, and a classic recipe uses one part sugar, two parts butter and three parts flour.

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Word Makeup

Choose the correctly spelt compound word:

a) cheescake
b) pepermint
c) shortbread
d) marshmellow

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c) shortbread. Cheesecake keeps the e of cheese, peppermint has a double p, and marshmallow ends in mallow.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

trdaobshre

a) shorthand
b) shortcake
c) shortbread
d) shortened

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c) shortbread. After short, the leftover letters b, r, e, a, d spell bread.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Before the long train ride to Edinburgh, Mother packed a tin of buttery shotbread for us to share.

a) share
b) buttery
c) shotbread
d) packed

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c) shotbread. The first part is the word short, with its r.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Shortbread is made of two words joined together. Which of these is built the same way?

a) breadcrumb
b) marmalade
c) chocolate
d) croissant

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a) breadcrumb

2. In shortbread, the word short describes the biscuit's ____.

a) crumbly texture
b) quick baking time
c) small size
d) low height

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a) crumbly texture

Associated Words

Words that end in -ead: bulkhead, widespread, plead, mislead, instead, gingerbread

More words from this list

unwieldy, affinity, bulkhead, couplet, emigration, handwritten, longitude, pessimist

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